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Target, Bronx NY now has $13 mw, $15 in Jan, and about 2x the self checkouts and 1/2 the live staff up front including 2 self serve monitors for 12 open stations, as my Ct local Wal Mart, where mw will be $11 in Jan 2019.
So what? Then the people will either find some other job (that pays a living wage) or they will be entitled to unemployed benefits and have the luxury to look for other work.
What happens to so many people is they get trapped. Walmart doesn't pay them a living wage but they're stuck there because it eats up all their time.
No one in the USA this day and age should work for $8 an hour. NO ONE.
So what? Then the people will either find some other job (that pays a living wage) or they will be entitled to unemployed benefits and have the luxury to look for other work.
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Other stores are automating also.
Cashiers and stock boys, two biggest retail subsets, will be 80-90% gone this decade.
The issue these people have is their Every Day Low Skill Sets.
2 relatives are working 45-50 hrs/week, and going to school for Masters at night. Where there is personal initiative, there is a way.
Good for your relatives. That is not the standard we should hold the average man to in society, however. Those with drives and motivations will naturally rise to the top but those who don't have such drives - we just don't discard. We take care of them (apartment, food, health care, some basic items) because we're supposed to be civilized.
Good for your relatives. That is not the standard we should hold the average man to in society, however. Those with drives and motivations will naturally rise to the top but those who don't have such drives - we just don't discard. We take care of them (apartment, food, health care, some basic items) because we're supposed to be civilized.
Right Americans, civilized?
In other words we enable them to be underachievers and reward them for it while punishing the folks who actually stepped up. Yeah I can see how that would be conducive towards building a great society.
Those with drives and motivations will naturally rise to the top but those who don't have such drives - we just don't discard. We take care of them (apartment, food, health care, some basic items) because we're supposed to be civilized.
Seriously? My job is not to take care of people without drive. Life is challenging, and those that make the effort survive just fine. I worked hard for what I have. I pay the price daily and I am a better person for it.
Good for your relatives. That is not the standard we should hold the average man to in society, however. Those with drives and motivations will naturally rise to the top but those who don't have such drives - we just don't discard.
Their relatives can take care of them, if they care to.
As a gov't, we should not be involved in overcoming their lack of self reliance.
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Yeah I can see how that would be conducive towards building a great society. 
