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Why? It's a job that takes no skills, no training, no experience, why do they deserve a bit more? There's a reason these jobs were traditionally done by kids, aka people with no skills, no training and no experience, a dime a dozen and instantly replaceable. Just because someone has a wife and child doesn't make the job worth more.
Veterinary technicians, who require certifications, around here are only making $12-13/ hour (yes, underpaid) there is no way a McMinimum wager is worth anywhere near the same. Arbitrarily increasing the minimum wage is going to ripple through the entire system and every industry increasing the price of virtually everything, except maybe Microsoft Windows and will end up not helping anyone.
It does not seem you are in tune with what is happening in this country. You are right it used to be for high school kids because there used to be good paying factory jobs for people who were unskilled. Those jobs are all but gone so people now have to take whatever they can. Why we they should pay more well how about min wage has not kept up with inflation like it used to or that for people working these jobs it is their career.
So doctors are in high demand, but aren't a part of supply and demand? You want to try that post again? If doctors are in high demand, then there needs to be a supply of doctors...it is called supply and demand.
Nope.
There's not always a high supply of doctors in certain specialties.
Can turn 'em out any quicker, despite demand, due to the fact that the programs are specific and not everyone who applies gets accepted. There a fewer positions available in certain residency programs vs. others.
Just like real estate agents can't make housing appear when there is no supply, but a high demand... and vice versa.
It does not seem you are in tune with what is happening in this country. You are right it used to be for high school kids because there used to be good paying factory jobs for people who were unskilled. Those jobs are all but gone so people now have to take whatever they can. Why we they should pay more well how about min wage has not kept up with inflation like it used to or that for people working these jobs it is their career.
If they raise it to 15 an hour everybody needs to get the same raise to make fair. The people making 15 an hour now needs to get 22 an hour and so on. So when everything is set and done, did it do any good?
Of course it doesn't all that happens next is all the prices go up accordingly, and their buy power remains the same. Maybe even less, as with additional income comes higher taxes.
Would the loss of fast food really be such a bad thing? Obesity would become much less of a problem so there would be huge savings there for all.
I am not a supporter of fast food, we rarely eat it, but I do not want to see them go away either. They do serve a purpose and closing them down would have no impact on our Obesity problems. Here is an example: we spent a week in Canada recently, there was fast food everywhere and yet, I don't remember seeing anyone, other than a few tourists that was overweight. You can eat fast food and still eat healthy or you can forget the fast food and still be fat...We need to start accepting our poor eating habits on ourselves and not blame others.
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