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Although I do support a minimum wage, it needs to be a reasonable one. MIT's living wage estimate that fast food workers in NY should get $18.30 an hour seems absurd, along with the push for $15 nationwide for fast food workers.
Many fast food workers are high school and college aged kids making money on the side while in school or in transition.
Adults that work in fast food tend not to have a lot of job skills on average. Hence, working in fast food and not as a brain surgeon.
If fast food workers were to get an $18.30 an hour minimum wage, then 1 of 2 things would happen:
1) prices of fast food would in fact increase substantially. Less fast food would be bought. Workers would get laid off as the fast food industry suffered.
2) fast food restaurants would start using automation through machines that can cook and assemble the hamburgers, tacos, etc for them. We already have the technology and in some places like Tokyo it is now more profitable to just have machines make the fast food than humans.
What would these low job skilled adults do for work after they price themselves out of a job?
Automation is the way of the future, asking for $15 minimum wage for a low skill job is going to speed up automation and lead to the loss of jobs for burger flippers.
This automated Hamburger maker is more sanitary and more efficient than an entire crew at McDonald's and can make a hamburger to very specific specifications every 10 seconds:
All this talk about living wage etc. and it's just a political talking point.
A national living wage is utterly ridiculous given the variance in cost of living and you can guarantee that the rural state Senators would kill any type of legislation.
So what you really have here is a big fat lie for votes where people like Hillary talk about how they care for and want to help the poor and working people.
Um....she's the same gal that helped push NAFTA which off-shored many of the jobs that used to pay better wages.
Why not round up to $30.00 and throw a whole bunch more out of work a whole lot sooner?
There would be some ripples but I don't think anyone is going out work. What will happen is when they go to purchase a McDonald's meal it's going to be $30 so they will be right back where they started.
MW was NEVER meant to support a lifestyle. NEVER, unless you lived at home and had no real bills.
Being a burger flipper is now a "career" and it has to support a middle class lifestyle.
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