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Fast food workers want $15/hr
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Yes, the sheer audacity of demanding a living wage! |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| This is old news. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Yes, the sheer audacity of demanding a living wage! |
You can live on less than $15/hr.
I'm doing it now - and that's with a $450/month student loan payment.
That's an outrageous demand for people who don't have skills. I get the CEO/employee balance is ed up, but how can a wage increase like this be justified to people in other industries who make less? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| $15/hr in California is probably like making $10/hr in Florida, though. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
$15/hr in California is probably like making $10/hr in Florida. |
Good point. But the article says across the country.
I wouldn't argue against an increase to $10 down here. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Also, look to studies like this one:
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/ret..._policies11.pdf
The takeaway is that these corporations are experiencing record profits, yet can maintain keeping their labourers relatively impoverished because of the fallback of government assistance; it's basically an indirect method of subsidizing megacorps with tax dollars just to stuff the coffers of their elite. Keeping people poor and sick ends up costing each and every one of us more money in programs like welfare and medicaid, instead of passing off the cost to those obscenely disproportionately wealthy whose very stature is utterly enabled by the very same people they are allowed to so casually despise.
Yes, it is wealth redistribution, and the case of just upping minimum wage is merely a bandage solution (with immediate consequence) to an endemically capitalist malaise. But so much needs to change within a generation if the United States would still like to be a world player, and fair conditions for society and the work place are a vital step. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| We live in 2013. 15$ is the new 5. Come on man. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| Hal, the rights for world player part is wrong. All of the fastest growing economies don't give a about that. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
That's totally true in the short term, but like I said, give it one more generation. After a few more market bursts and the exponent outsourcing of skilled labour tends towards equilibrium, the standard for growth is going to radically shift toward specialization. It's precisely why the US needs to take a more unilateral approach toward overhauling immigration, education, and healthcare for all, much less a big gulp of the socialism punch when it comes to taxation and standardized compensation.
Or we'll all be in Kim-Jong work camps. One of those. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| I'll be fine. I'm still not fucking eating chicken feet. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
I ate some motha in chicken feat last night
As for the wage increase - I can see this working out rather poorly for the unions. "Oh, you'd like a wage increase? You're all fired. you. Robots."
We'll all be ordering on tablets soon (i know some restaurants are already phasing these in) |
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