Democrats, clutch yourselves - I'm getting ready to agree with you....
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Liberal Open Carry Laws, STOP feeding illegals and Ghetto Trash
the problem will be sorted out with
1. people getting jobs
2. Self Deportation
3. Trash cleaned out when they try to rob citizens
Another jealous little bitch … you don’t have the talent to succeed at any level.
And yet here you are....
Thing is, while top execs make big bucks - if you 100% ELIMINATE them and pass their compensation down to the workers - it’s not that much, especially if you’re in an industry like fast food which profits on large volumes of product and low prices.
If you DOUBLE the cost of paying staff, you don’t have enough brass to cut to pay them all even if you get rid of all of them. The math ain’t there.
There’s also the very reasonable argument that fast food is an entry point to the work force, which is why you see youth running the business. You do NOT see a bunch of thirty and forty something men bustling about. It’s ridiculous to think anyone should be raising a family or making a career out of fast food unless they’re a manager, owner or executive. Has anyone ever heard of people working at McD’s flipping burgers for forty years?
20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food. No one wants a 20 dollar Big Mac.
If you DOUBLE the cost of paying staff, you don’t have enough brass to cut to pay them all even if you get rid of all of them. The math ain’t there.
There’s also the very reasonable argument that fast food is an entry point to the work force, which is why you see youth running the business. You do NOT see a bunch of thirty and forty something men bustling about. It’s ridiculous to think anyone should be raising a family or making a career out of fast food unless they’re a manager, owner or executive. Has anyone ever heard of people working at McD’s flipping burgers for forty years?
20 bucks minimum wage is gonna crush fast food. No one wants a 20 dollar Big Mac.
And no one should be aspiring to "make a living" working fast food, but here we are.
When I was a kid - I had a paper route with about 100 customers. I made about 2-3 cents per paper delivered - a paper that cost about 50 cents. I also had to do my own collections with punch cards and a zippered cash bag.
Ten years or more later there were no paperboys because adults in cars took their place. Billing was automated, delivery was faster, range was bigger and routes were larger. I know - for two months I had one. I couldn’t compete.
But I’d be surprised if anyone aspired to make a career of it. If you knew someone who DID, you’d think them a slacker.
Those jobs are also largely gone. Mostly because papers are disappearing. But can you imagine a grown man whining that he doesn’t get paid enough for his paper route? A job originally designed for children?
Then the paper was transferred to the USPS and delivered with the mail. Always about 3 days late.
CPUSA
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He gets confused by 2+2...
this is going to have the affect of PUSHING wages up all over ... that's a 40k a year Starting IT Help Desk Salary
So not Help Desk JOB salaries have to go up, then Network Engineers and SyAdmins want more, and so on
The Friday edition would always arrive Monday afternoon. That didn't do me any good for the weekend events. Then they rolled all 3 counties into one paper, I dropped them for good. I can get everything I want online now.
I had a Manager when working at a Pizza Hut Delivery store who's husband delivered papers at night and watched the kids during the day while his wife worked
In other words, another inflationary event.
And daily living goes up, so your landlord etc have to charge more to break even, and on and on it goes.
Doesn't it stun you that so many people don't understand this simple concept?
BOP
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Now I'm triggered.I like you. Unlike the vast majority here, you read to understand — not to argue.
Used to, now it's just business as usual. Americans are some of the most financially and economically illiterate people in the world and our leaders are no exception.
It should, shouldn’t it?
I just know far too many people who heretofore were making 12 to 13 bucks an hour doing more skilled jobs than minimum wage entailed -
And THEIR wages haven’t changed. Only difference is, they get a salary and not an hourly wage - but since they’re getting paid ~25k it’s not changed. Sucks to work for the state government or the schools and get paid LESS than the twerps busing tables.
Clem72
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I just had McDonald's for the first time in probably 6 or 8 years. Got a Big Mac meal (through the app) for $6. Yes, the meat patties were as thin as the pickle, those photos going around are 100% accurate. I should have just got the quarter pounder.