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> the eventual end game at this rate is for establishments that are extremely expensive and able to actually pay their workers decently That's not the end game
by yholio 8y ago
> the eventual end game at this rate is for establishments that are extremely expensive and able to actually pay their workers decently
That's not the end game, because there is an endless supply of low paid labour willing to commute hours to work. Especially if the tips are better.
The places will be expensive, no doubt, but labour will capture a very small proportion of the hike, with the rest going to capital like brand and real estate owners.
The tech elite seems willing to cling to these sorts of market-mediated fair world falacies, because they refuse to acknowledge their own position in the capitalist society.
- deadmetheny 8y agoI own a foodservice establishment. Labor is absolutely our biggest expenditure immediately after rent. Additionally, that "endless supply of cheap labor" still needs to be reliable enough and able to actually show up, plus costs in hiring and training and all of that sort of thing. This isn't coming from some webshit programmer, this is what I see every day.
- yholio 8y agoOf course. But is your business in the center of a major metropolis and as a consequence of that, pais for labour a multiplier proportional to other costs in the area, like rent and services? I doubt it, you might have higher costs but you don't pay 3x the average waiter salary.