michal1980
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So many people are forced to work for what amounts to slave wages, or simply be a slave to welfare. These chains of poverty often cross multiple generations, something needs to be done.
Raising the minimum wage from slave type wage, to human wages, wages fit for a human, will go along way to break this chain. People will earn more money, with the extra money they will buy more goods. They will elevate themselves and their family. Most importantly they will finally be treated like human beings. Business owners will also see a boost in revenue from this extra money being spent. So it will be a boon for all.
Is it time we finally move beyond slave wages, and onto human wages?
I like apple pie wages
Nope. Some people are overpaid even with minimum wage. Seriously, when I was a teen and worked as a cashier in 1982 minimum wage was 3$ an hour. I had to enter the price manually, I had to add the tax manually, I had to know what was taxable, I had to bag it and load the carts. Same job today all you do is slide the product trough a scanner that does all the thinking for you. And you have some snot nosed teen bagging your customers shit for tips so really, WTF are you doing that you need more $$$? You want to make more than minimum wage learch a fucking skill and do some actual work. Same with fast food places, all you do is push a button and the machine makes change. I have no sympathy.
McDonalds could just get rid of cashiers altogether. I'm sure they could automate the process pretty easily.
Nope. Some people are overpaid even with minimum wage. Seriously, when I was a teen and worked as a cashier in 1982 minimum wage was 3$ an hour. I had to enter the price manually, I had to add the tax manually, I had to know what was taxable, I had to bag it and load the carts. Same job today all you do is slide the product trough a scanner that does all the thinking for you. And you have some snot nosed teen bagging your customers shit for tips so really, WTF are you doing that you need more $$$? You want to make more than minimum wage learch a fucking skill and do some actual work. Same with fast food places, all you do is push a button and the machine makes change. I have no sympathy.
They could for reasonably intelligent customers. But what about the people that were barely capable of being a cashier before?
McDonalds could just get rid of cashiers altogether. I'm sure they could automate the process pretty easily.
um, noSo many people are forced to work for what amounts to slave wages, or simply be a slave to welfare. These chains of poverty often cross multiple generations, something needs to be done.
Raising the minimum wage from slave type wage, to human wages, wages fit for a human, will go along way to break this chain. People will earn more money, with the extra money they will buy more goods. They will elevate themselves and their family. Most importantly they will finally be treated like human beings. Business owners will also see a boost in revenue from this extra money being spent. So it will be a boon for all.
Is it time we finally move beyond slave wages, and onto human wages?
So many people are forced to work for what amounts to slave wages
McDonalds could just get rid of cashiers altogether
I must be an old geezer too to agree with someone like this. Look Oyeve, I think you need to break it down more and speak their language to better illustrate your points:
"u gotta use yo mind en shit yo' stop actin' a foo and use dat math to add up dem prices and calculate dem taxes instead o jus sittin der scanin' shityo. den I had ta bag it 4 dem an put it n ther cart yo n' shit"
This is what? the 4th thread in OT or P&N that is covering the same thing?
Stupid idea. So we raise minimum wage. Now companies just increase the price of their products to compensate. Now cost of living goes up. Now minimum wage is no longer a living wage again.
Rinse and repeat. There will always be poor people.
liberals like the OP and others just can not and will not ever understand that.
Because its not true
You're right it not ALWAYS true of some businesses.
For example many will use such hikes for minimum wage jobs to move jobs overseas, push for greater and greater automation, reduce hours of their current staff, reduce benefits, hire less workers over time, or if possible they reduce the quality and quantity of goods and services provided to their customers at the same cost which is a stealth price hike to the consumer, etc. In the worse case scenario for businesses who are too small or who rely on razor thin profit margins to compete and for which they are unable to do the above mention options they just go out of business.
You're right it not ALWAYS true of some businesses.
For example many will use such hikes for minimum wage jobs to move jobs overseas, push for greater and greater automation, reduce hours of their current staff, reduce benefits, hire less workers over time, or if possible they reduce the quality and quantity of goods and services provided to their customers at the same cost which is a stealth price hike to the consumer, etc. In the worse case scenario for businesses who are too small or who rely on razor thin profit margins to compete and for which they are unable to do the above mention options they just go out of business.