OK. So let's give them a living Wage say 15$/hr AND MOVE PLUMBERS AND ELECTRICIANS UP TO 40$/Hr Why is that so crazy? Rocket River
I manage a kitchen with 50+ associates I can say the starting wage for my staff is 16.74 per hour. An extra 1.50 differential after 3pm. And an additional 2.00 differential for weekend hours. So, if you just started with me and you work evenings on the weekend you get 20.24 an hour. I totally agree with your philosophy and am willing to pay more for it to happen, but I fear I am in the minority. So many people covet their money and damned the people that don't have as much as them, for they are a potential burden.
I will say the last time I had an electrician come over to do work on my house he was 60 bucks and hour and that is with the friends and family discount.
$15.00 is not a livable wage. Additionally, many state wages are creeping up to $15.00. Serving people food is not a career. You really struggle with the concept of our form of government and economy. We are not pure socialist. If that is what you want, go to N Korea or Cuba.
Actually is really isn't. Entitled lazy americans expect other americans to prepare and feed them food instead of doing it themselves. Then the low IQ democrats want to pay these low skilled workers higher wages but somehow expect the service industry to suppress food prices so the low iq people can pay people to make them shitty unhealthy food .... because restaurant owners are some how extremely wealthy?
I find they're usually cheaper when you can pay them to work by the job, hourly would have cost me twice as much mostly due to their own negligence.
So, what do we do, ban restaurants? What about lazy Americans who won't change their oil or mow their lawn?
Capitalism does not solve allocation, but that is not its function. Its strength is the profit motive, which has driven efficiencies better than any other system. Even communist states ended up adopting private ownership and market exchange because nothing else worked as well. I don’t know how the allocation issue can be solved, but I don’t think it needs to replace capitalism as many assume. If you look at private companies, some approach the issue (motivation more than allocation, but effectively allocation too) with profit-sharing models or share-ownership models. The allocation solution could work in conjunction with capitalism, and I hope society does not ditch the whole system instead of finding a parallel solution. Happiness is harder to pin down. Human connection is very important for most people, but not for everyone. Solitary monks are an extreme example that shows happiness is highly individual. What seems universal is that basic necessities must be met before happiness is possible. Wealth provides security or a temporary boost, but it is not the same as happiness (plenty of data that show wealthy folks are as happy or miserable). Efficiency itself is neutral. Efficiencies today do reduce face-to-face connection, which makes your concern valid. But efficiency can also create new and even deeper forms of connection. Virtual reality already lets people inhabit another person’s perspective in ways that physical interaction cannot, and future technology may allow us to share feelings or thoughts directly that enhance relationships.
To be honest Swarzenneggar, Romney, and even W Bush seem to more liberal or open minded than the latest tirade of both parties. McCain, just anybody but Trump. It's like he has them under mind control to be stupider.
No, but you can increase the minimum wage to $25 an hour - including servers, get rid of server wages.......and pay them the same $25 an hour and kill tip culture. Restaurants can adjust - people should be paid a living wage. DD
Yep, some should....if they can't pay or people refuse to pay, they shouldn't be in business anyway.....you shouldn't build a business on substandard wages, that is wrong. Your prices and margins should reflect a good minimum wage....businesses that are poorly run - should be out of business. A 2018 study published by UC Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment found that minimum wage increases in six U.S. cities, including Seattle, had a negligible impact on employment but increased earnings in the food service industry. The researchers' analysis, which covered the period from 2012 to 2017 and included a total of six cities, showed that a 10% minimum wage increase led to a 1.3% to 2.5% average increase in earnings within the food service sector. The study's findings contrast with earlier, less comprehensive analyses, such as a 2017 IndyStar article that reported major job losses based on a previous, ideologically diverse study. However, the Berkeley study's findings generally align with the notion that minimum wage increases can be a tool for improving economic conditions for low-wage workers without significantly harming employment. DD
not sure a national minimum wage (of $25/hr or whatever) makes sense as a top-down imposition across the board. There are areas of the country where $10-15/hr is a lot of money and others where McDonalds can't get people at $20/hr. I think there's got to be some allowance for local decision-making. And if folks are adamant about instituting a minimum wage, it should probably be up to each individual jurisdiction to figure out what that should be. https://www.minimum-wage.org/wage-by-state
It is complicated. I remember when it was vogue a handful of years ago to almost double the minimum wage. I said I felt it should be adjusted every year for inflation.... not be stagnant for a decade or longer and then almost doubled. Well - they increased the wage, and then people were pissed that the cost of goods and services went up. Well yes - we had been somewhat free riding off a low minimum wage, and immigrant employees that artificially kept prices down across the board. Yes - that $1.00 hamburger is now $2.00 because the cattle worker is making twice as much, the slaughterhouse employee is making twice as much, the person packing and driving the meat to McDonalds is making more and the employee taking and making your burger is making twice as much. The answer wasn't/isn't to let minimum wage sit the same for an entire generation, especially when so many of those jobs were no longer jobs for teenagers wanting beer money or money for an abortion - but people supporting their families. Likewise, the solution wasn't to just jack up the minimum wage and risk inflation and sticker shock. I also thought it would end up costing Democrats votes because those making more than minimum wage but less than wealthy were hurt by it, because the cost of goods and services for them increased.
