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I guess you may have to forgo delivery pizza if more chains go this way and realize the entire business is not profitable with higher labor costs and simply sto
by s0rce 3y ago
I guess you may have to forgo delivery pizza if more chains go this way and realize the entire business is not profitable with higher labor costs and simply stop offering the service entirely.
- toasted-subs 3y agoMaybe we can start to lower the number one killer of Americans.
- toasted-subs 3y ago[flagged]
- toomuchtodo 3y agoWorst things could happen than food delivery evaporating due to living wages making it economically unviable.
- alvah 3y agoWorse/worst things could happen than most things, however no wage is surely worse/worst than some wage?
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- lukeschlather 3y agoThat doesn't follow. Wages are just a sale of a service. If the service costs more to deliver than the wage, then it's better not to sell the service at all.
- alvah 3y agoThat doesn't follow? From the POV of the wage recipient / non-recipient, no money is better than some money? Have we slipped through a wormhole into bizarro world & nobody has told me?
- text0404 3y agoif you had diabetes, would you be ok with a fraction of the insulin that you need to survive? it's unethical/immoral to offer a fraction of a livable wage to desperate people who have no other options.
- pasttense01 3y agoThis $20 minimum was only applies to fast food workers: why do other workers only need a much lower livable wage?
- s0rce 3y agoThis is confusing to me as well. Why is one industry specifically called out.
- gnicholas 3y agoSpecifically, it only applies to workers employed by fast food restaurants with 60+ locations. This was easier for the legislature to pass, since they could paint it as a battle between big business and little employees.
- alvah 3y ago100% of insulin-dependent diabetics who don’t get enough insulin will die. Most people in unskilled entry-level jobs which pay less than a bureaucrat’s notion of what’s required to survive will not die, at least in the short term. Unskilled entry-level jobs have never really been a viable career, but they do serve a valuable function. Eliminating them by setting the price higher than the value seems like a backward step (e.g. if you’re a teenager or student trying to make a bit of extra cash).
- alvah 3y ago
- dragonwriter 3y agoMost delivery pizza service in CA is not by reataurants subject to the large fast-food chain minimum wage law, because they usually don't meet one or both of the fast-food or large chain [0] requirements. [0] technically, “national chain”, but its a number-of-restuarants-within-the-US standard, not a breadth of geographic coverage standard.