$15 an hour to flip burgers is crazy (fast food, wage, statistics)

[hogstooth]

Originally Posted by moneill

This was happening with or without a fifteen dollar minimum wage.

Someone has to code that robot.

Coding is the new manufacturing job -- if we start at kids in elementary school -- they will be ready to code by high school.

Right those out of work burger flippers will slide right into computer coding MAGAKAGA

[EastwardBound]

Automation and technological advancements always cost some jobs, but end up creating more. Typically it should happen gradually, with less pain being felt overall within the sectors, but Democrats always help to speed up the process, rendering a more intensive pain and more sudden loss of jobs because of their meddling in the economy.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by burdell

What reason is there to believe corporations would keep coding jobs here when they can have 'coding centers' in India and China for far less $$$?

You have to be willing to work for a few bucks an hour or have your job sent elsewhere so that Wall Street is temporarily happy with their returns.

[FatBob96]

Originally Posted by greywar

$15 an hour? Honestly thats not that much money. Median rent is $981 in the us. Take home in my state (Oregon) at that rate would be about 899 every other week.

Source:
https://www.adp.com/tools-and-resour...alculator.aspx


https://www.deptofnumbers.com/rent/us/


So over half your income would go to rent. at $15/hr.

I call BS......

My mortgage isn't $981 a month.

And many people split the rent, so even if accurate it would be at a 1/4 of income.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

I call BS......

My mortgage isn't $981 a month.

Mines about $1550.


The rental costs for a house like mine are over 2K


I can find LOTS of data backing up that median rental cost figure. You might not like the FACTS, but they are what they are.

[Freak80]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

I call BS......

My mortgage isn't $981 a month.

Depends on where you live, my man.

[headingtoDenver]

Originally Posted by Freak80

Correct.

Unfortunately, much like manufacturing, coding has been going overseas too.

Exactly. All the coding will be done overseas and you might have a single local sys admin who will come in and update the McBurgerFlipper 2000. Lose 5+ $15 an hour positions per store and replace them with a single $40 an hour regional sys admin who would be college educated and have experience.

[hogstooth]

Originally Posted by Freak80

It’ll be fun to see your reaction when your job is replaced by a robot and you are thrown out onto the street.

I don't flip burgers I flip Stocks, Bonds, Commodities

[Fox Terrier]

Originally Posted by FatBob96

I call BS......

My mortgage isn't $981 a month.

Lots of times a mortgage payment is actually less than renting.

Some people can't buy because they don't have the down payment to buy a house.

vicious cycle...

[moneill]

Originally Posted by Freak80

Correct.

Unfortunately, much like manufacturing, coding has been going overseas too.

Having a son who has worked in this field.

Yes tons of coding is done overseas but there is a HUGE problem with that and that does not eliminate the need for folks here to work in coding.

My son had the displeasure of working for a place that uses overseas He says that while the coding overseas is fast and gets 'done'.....it is far from problem free. There is a language barrier, often a misunderstanding of what the code is trying to do. Those people overseas do routine stuff but they don't get the bigger picture. So someone HERE ends up having to fix organize, clean, rewrite.

Right now -- the job offers pour in for jobs in the USA.

I'm thinking I might do a 12 week course. I don't anticipate being as talented as my son but i could work for one of those places not requiring any real thought -- just cranking out the code (too old to get creative now -- just need something to keep my mind sane and help out with health care costs).