Seattle City Council Approves $15/hour Minimum Wage

[Anomalocaris]

I worked as a nanny for a McDonalds CEO once. He built himself a new house wherever he went. Four story ones with elevators. He paid me $15/hr.

Should have tossed his brats down the elevator shaft while you had the chance.

[Minimalist]

I worked as a nanny for a McDonalds CEO once. He built himself a new house wherever he went. Four story ones with elevators. He paid me $15/hr.

More than double what he pays his workers....the guys who are making our burgers.

[Anomalocaris]

I worked as a nanny for a McDonalds CEO once. He built himself a new house wherever he went. Four story ones with elevators. He paid me $15/hr.

More than double what he pays his workers....the guys who are making our burgers.

No doubt he thinks not having his brats tossed down the elevator shaft is worth $7.5 / hour. Not having spit in our burger patties, on the other hand, is worth $0.0 / hour to him.

[The Grand Nudger]

I never got the fast food/minimum wage thing. Those meals are empty, the most expensive thing about a damned soda is the cup it came in. It's not as though the margins are slim.

[Minimalist]

It's all explainable by "greed."

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah.......but Min..I'm greedy as shit.....one of the reasons that I make the money I make is the wages I pay. I get folks who do the job right, and do it well. It's actually a huge part of my marketing. Ultimately, what I pay out in labor, if you graphed it relative to my profits, is even smaller than what operations that employ illegals at criminal rates pay out. Human decency is a value added strategy for my product.

[Minimalist]

But what is the job?

[The Grand Nudger]

Farm labor. Theres alot of smiling and fistpumping involved, it's not your run of the mill "go pick those round red things Juan" kind of farm labor, but still.

[Minimalist]

I guess you don't want to be "rich?"

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh I'd love to get there buddy,but it's a long con...a looong, looong con. With my commitments to my ex and my family (inc my brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews) I'll probably stroke out in my squash rows before I ever make it. But I suppose that's probably the root of it, what I consider "rich" and what they consider "rich" are entirely dissimilar. I can't call the proceeds of exploitation wealth, I call it a liability. I don't want my descendants (hopefully still doing what daddy did - or better, otherwise I wouldn't buy the property rights) to find themselves with their necks in a noose. Honestly, if I tried to do what everyone else was doing - to get "rich"- I'd just lose money. I've tried it.