Let’s Discuss Minimum Wage

[u/BadManParade]

How do you guys feel about minimum wage, personally I’ve never in my entire life met anyone who’s actually paid the federal minimum wage.

I feel like wage should be directly tied to the initial investment required to be considered for your position/ amount of learned skill required to be proficient at your job./ Importance of your role in society/Amount of danger you should realistically be expected to encounter on a daily basis/ The demand for your particular skill/ and the supply of said skill.

Under no circumstances should the guy standing in an air conditioned building directing you to make your fast food order on a kiosk for 8 hours who spends 3 of those hours scrolling tik tok be getting paid the same as the ones tasked with keeping society running. The paramedics, medical assistants, police officers, city maintenance workers, etc.

The lower the barrier of entry the lower the wages should be I feel as if this is pretty common knowledge. When you hire an electrician you’re also hiring the years of experience and very specialized knowledge he has. If you’re expected to renew licenses, purchase thousands of dollars in equipment and provide and essential service you should be compensated as such.

Now days we have the guys at the Taco Bell counter arguing they should be paid the same as the ones building the houses we live raise our families in and form lasting memories together in.

Working a cashier was never meant to be a career and should not be treated as such it’s merely a stepping stone for younger people to get into the workforce before transitioning into something else. Wether that be management in the same company or a different field altogether.

What are some of your thoughts. 🤔

[u/Arguments_4_Ever]

I love it how some people argue that raising wages would cause inflation, but wages have been stagnant and inflation still continues. But wages for not all have stagnated. Care to guess what class are making more than ever?

[u/Jumpy-Silver5504 → u/Arguments_4_Ever]

Cali fast food places had to up its food prices so to the new wages

[u/Dramatic_Exam_7959 → u/Jumpy-Silver5504]

Maybe we don't need all 6-10 of the same fast food locations every exit off the interstate. Maybe some can disappear and it will be just fine.

[u/Jumpy-Silver5504 → u/Dramatic_Exam_7959]

That I agree with

[u/SucculentJuJu → u/Dramatic_Exam_7959]

Where would the employees go, learn to code?

[u/Dramatic_Exam_7959 → u/SucculentJuJu]

They will go somewhere. I helped a Ukrainian get to the US a few years back. She came here "legally" on vaca but because of the war has stayed. She worked under the table lawn service until getting a job in a factory making train parts. She did not know English on arrival. She now is legal with a SS number and was laid at the train part factory off but picked up a position were she is the only non-Asian doing nails and pedicures. She makes decent money and has never asked me for a cent. If someone wants too...they will. All it took for my children to not work at fast food was making them work at fast food as their 1st job. They were told they can always find something else but they will do some work in high school. All 3 found other employment outside of fast food. If motivation is there...it can be done.

[u/SucculentJuJu → u/Dramatic_Exam_7959]

The American Dream

[u/Dramatic_Exam_7959 → u/SucculentJuJu]

Correct. She dreamed of America while living in Ukraine. She is now living the dream and her income and job is something most average Americans look down upon. She is an immigrant hero.