RE: About minimum wage
October 8, 2016 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2016 at 1:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and now they're selling at 6 at any subway franchise..whether it pays the minimum, or 33% over and above the minimum. They didn;t do away with it, btw, they limited the subs which were still 5$ to the shitty ones, lol. Bastards. As to competition, boohoo...but it;s not like this isn't already the case. Here, in my city, you can work for subway or work for a manufacturer like toyota and make the same wage. People decide for themselves whether they're more comfortable as subway sandwich artists or automotive assemblers. Most, choose to be assemblers. I'd rather be a driver than a burger flipper myself, even if all things were equal, which they aren't and wont be. Is this though, actually a legitimate gripe... even if it were true? That it might be hard to entice people to do work they don't want to do if work they did want to do was available...... I left a nice career in manufacturing, admittedly when it was tat a low point back in the midst of the recession, for a shit job digging holes in the ground....which I just so happened to enjoy. I'm sure my spot was filled with a quickness.
A 20% increase of the minimum wage isn;t going to make any of your drivers run off to a 10 dollar job....from their 17 dollar job...unless they just don't want to work for you or as a driver. Good riddance to that guy, right? He doesn't want to be there, you're not a warden, and there are people who do. No sense in paying a half-asser until he finally decides to quit. Help him, help himself. We've already seen that rungs of commerce below you can and do absrob even greater increases and still hit their margins. I;m not trying to school you on business or accounting ( I know I can't help but come off that way with these examples)...just showing you all the ways that the fear mongering surrounding raising the minimum wage is, itself, manufactured.
Now I, personally, question any model that can;t afford to pay a minimum wage, either at 7.25 or at 10 (which is a hefty % increase but not much in real terms.. 100x times jack shit is still jack shit). This is admittedly ideological.....but maybe, just maybe, they should close up shop and leave it to a model that can? Go do something that they're better at? We'll still end up covering a portion in welfare, in subsidy, because 10 is still at the poverty line.....but at least we'll be covering less, and less comes out of our pocketbooks....seeing as the labor consumer is paying more of it with their own proceeds garnered from the same. If a hike to 10 really -would- put McDonalds et al out of business, which it won't, I'm not sure I'd shed a tear over the sudden lack of obnoxious yellow arches in the landscape. Their employees are already on welfare. What;s the worst that could happen? All we'd have done is cut the corporate office off the welfare teet it's model depends on.
A 20% increase of the minimum wage isn;t going to make any of your drivers run off to a 10 dollar job....from their 17 dollar job...unless they just don't want to work for you or as a driver. Good riddance to that guy, right? He doesn't want to be there, you're not a warden, and there are people who do. No sense in paying a half-asser until he finally decides to quit. Help him, help himself. We've already seen that rungs of commerce below you can and do absrob even greater increases and still hit their margins. I;m not trying to school you on business or accounting ( I know I can't help but come off that way with these examples)...just showing you all the ways that the fear mongering surrounding raising the minimum wage is, itself, manufactured.
Now I, personally, question any model that can;t afford to pay a minimum wage, either at 7.25 or at 10 (which is a hefty % increase but not much in real terms.. 100x times jack shit is still jack shit). This is admittedly ideological.....but maybe, just maybe, they should close up shop and leave it to a model that can? Go do something that they're better at? We'll still end up covering a portion in welfare, in subsidy, because 10 is still at the poverty line.....but at least we'll be covering less, and less comes out of our pocketbooks....seeing as the labor consumer is paying more of it with their own proceeds garnered from the same. If a hike to 10 really -would- put McDonalds et al out of business, which it won't, I'm not sure I'd shed a tear over the sudden lack of obnoxious yellow arches in the landscape. Their employees are already on welfare. What;s the worst that could happen? All we'd have done is cut the corporate office off the welfare teet it's model depends on.
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