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Originally Posted by kane
The demand for a $15 minimum wage certainly helped move it along faster. Not too long ago when McDonald's was the focus of the minimum wage battle and the $15/hr number was floated out there McDonald's spoke out against it and started lobbying against it. Then they stopped all that and announced they were focusing their money, time, and effort into automation instead of fighting the minimum wage increase. If people are going to demand more to flip burgers, they will just buy a robot that can flip the burgers.
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Hell, they wanted McDonalds to pay them $15 plus healthcare, etc. And of course you have to match FICA funds for taxes for your employees.
There is always two sides to this: The employee side and the owners side.
To me, an employee should only be paid what they are WORTH. That's how the market always has worked. Got a friend who is graduating with a masters degree in environmental science. Oil companies are lined up to hire him. Starting pay: $87 a fucking hour!!!
And that's just starting pay.
That's called SKILLED labor.
But when you are working a job that is designed to be the first "test" job of a person in high school to get their feet wet in the real world...that isn't worth $3 an hour.
The person taking your order on a stupid speaker? That can be replaced by an app and your smartphone.
in other words...if you want to work in a restaurant and make good money...you CAN. A real restaurant that is. Not fast food.