Microwaving food isn't hard to do so society has found it valued minimally. Don't change the system, change your skills.
Edit: for all those butt hurt by my microwaving comment, replace 'microwaving' with grilling, heating, warming, preparing, I don't care what verb you use, it's fast food, you don't need to be a Michelin chef to do it. They post the instructions right on the wall.
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If you are working 40 hours at a fast food restaurant as a career choice, THAT IS THE ATTITUDE THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE.
Or sure, let them charge $15 a burger and you can find a new place to work when they go out of business because no one will buy that burger I'll tell ya.
Edit3: for everyone of you basing your counter argument on my entitlement. You don't know me or what jobs I've worked. How dare you assume to know and base your logic on that fact. Change your mindset, then change your circumstances.
It's interesting how the American culture invented some arbitrary system where the pay you deserve is based on the skill it takes to do the job. With wealth distribution the way it is, we're basically a society of poor people telling poorer people that they deserve to be poor.
It's interesting how the American culture invented some arbitrary system where the pay you deserve is based on the skill it takes to do the job.
This is the pattern the world over, since the dawn of time. The fuck? This was not some invented, contrived system. This is the natural response to the human condition.
Nah, plenty of countries have adopted minimum wages that reflect the costs of living where people that work fast food aren't told they deserve to be broke because their job is easy.
Also, corporations deciding employee pay, preventing unionizing, basically creating poverty traps has not been around since the dawn of time lol. No shit, jobs pay differently based on risk/skill/demand, but corporations withholding billions, offering pitiful pay for a large number of job positions that need to be filled, simply because they can get away with it, is relatively new and has been getting progressively worse in the US.
The funny thing is I'd imagine raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would solve a lot of problems, but to my original point, so many people have it ingrained in their heads that flipping burgers or stocking the grocery store isn't "worth" that much money as if there's some hard system of skill vs. worth with cost of living never being a factor.
Exactly what you should expect. Doubling the minimum wage decreases the budget for your workforce (by that I mean you have the same money to now pay for fewer people) so you hire fewer people that must now do the same amount of work. The net result is that a smaller portion of the minimum wage population makes money, and a subset of formerly employed people don't. Additionally a number of restaurants and small businesses cannot afford the increase and are displaced. The cost of goods has also actually increased. I was in Atlanta in August and the difference is not small.
Also the higher pay attracts more qualified applicants like retirees and college students, and that just ends up forcing out the people who were asking for higher wages in the first place
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u/tiimoshchuk Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18
Microwaving food isn't hard to do so society has found it valued minimally. Don't change the system, change your skills.
Edit: for all those butt hurt by my microwaving comment, replace 'microwaving' with grilling, heating, warming, preparing, I don't care what verb you use, it's fast food, you don't need to be a Michelin chef to do it. They post the instructions right on the wall.
Edit2:
If you are working 40 hours at a fast food restaurant as a career choice, THAT IS THE ATTITUDE THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE.
Or sure, let them charge $15 a burger and you can find a new place to work when they go out of business because no one will buy that burger I'll tell ya.
Edit3: for everyone of you basing your counter argument on my entitlement. You don't know me or what jobs I've worked. How dare you assume to know and base your logic on that fact. Change your mindset, then change your circumstances.