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It seems like with regards to restaurants, this would only mostly apply to fast-food restaurants. Raising the minimum wage doesn't really appear to have an effe
by Evolved 11y ago
It seems like with regards to restaurants, this would only mostly apply to fast-food restaurants. Raising the minimum wage doesn't really appear to have an effect on servers given that the majority of their pay is from tips and they are effectively legally paid less than minimum wage anyway.
Furthermore, it isn't supposed to be a living wage. You're not supposed to be a single mother of 3 supporting yourself working at McDonald's. The minimum wage is supposed to be for those new to the work force and then you're supposed to better yourself and get a higher wage job. Where's the incentive to invest in yourself to earn more if you're making $15/hr for menial work?
- mbfg 11y agoSo your thinking is that people will start making $15/hr and say to themselves, wow, i'm living in paradise! Really?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThat is an old dead horse. What job folks are 'supposed' to have according to middle-class morality is irrelevant. Today only about one minimum-wage worker in 10 are teens. A third are over 35. They haven't had a raise in 7 years. We're talking 25 million people who can't pay basic bills. And we're not going to make them into 25 million more engineers or programmers or anything else really. There aren't enough jobs in the entire rest of the economy for these folks to fill. It isn't going to get better by itself. Now Carl's wants to automate the counter. Banks are automating, expected to reduce head count by 30%. These things happen across the industry, those folks aren't earning minimum wage, they're out of a job.
- unprepare 11y ago>Where's the incentive to invest in yourself to earn more if you're making $15/hr for menial work? What made you go from 30k to 50k to 75k to 100k to 150k?