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Been there and done that when I was 16. I've increased the value of my labor so I don't have to work in a sweaty kitchen for peanuts.
What you miss is that the world is not the same place it was when you grew up. That upward mobility is increasingly going the way of bigfoot. It works for people like me, who go to college and grad school and join the white collar world; it does not work for the kinds of people who historically worked blue collar jobs and were able to feed a family and keep a roof over their heads. Nobody every said that the blue collar worker back then should have been rich compared to the white collar worker, but they could still make ends meet. Increasingly not so today.
We have a structural employment and income problem in this country. and it goes far beyond the usual "is the figurehead in office a Republican or Democrat, blah blah." The problem is that neither traditional Republican/conservative nor Democrat/liberal approaches can fix it; things are different today. But since we can't possibly move beyond the traditional partisan lines of gridlock, we can't make any progress toward a real solution. And that is why you will only see the income inequality gap keep growing and growing...and you'll see the fallout in societal instability.
The cost determined by supply and demand. But as a society, we should also be able to apply the presumption that full-time workers should be able to meet their basic needs for survival. If you rig the game to give them only half of what they need to survive, they will need to turn to the government to get the other half. That is certainly not the full cost.
We got a winner. The real cost of employment at McD is the salary + any government help the employee receive. I say, let those eating at mcdonalds pay the full cost, I don't eat there so why would my taxes have to subsidize somebody else's horrible eating habits?
Another day, another batch of angry conservatives complaining about people trying to get paid a living wage. I missed the memo where burger flippers deserve to starve.
You mean the people we can now see from the counter that put the semi cooked hamburger in the microwave and press a button ?
Sounds like you have never been in a McDonald's yet.
Economics aside, it's much more than that. You stand your whole shift on you feet, deal with rude customers, clean up throw up or worse in the bathroom, take out the trash, restock, clean, clean, clean what messy rude customers leave behind. I think that work deserves more than $7/hr.
The cost determined by supply and demand. But as a society, we should also be able to apply the presumption that full-time workers should be able to meet their basic needs for survival.
Why?
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If you rig the game to give them only half of what they need to survive, they will need to turn to the government to get the other half. That is certainly not the full cost.
You mean the people we can now see from the counter that put the semi cooked hamburger in the microwave and press a button ?
Sounds like you have never been in a McDonald's yet.
Right. Because everybody else making $12.50 or $15.00 is a rocket scientist or working on a cure for cancer...
The reality is that most jobs in the range $10-15 are no skill/low skill jobs that don't require much education.
Why would a McD cook standing in a hot kitchen be paid $7.50 then?
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