opinon: $7.25 an hour is not a living wage

[aRoMaN21]

It's no true because prices inflate with minimum wage so they would have the ability to pay. In fact, SUPPORTING mom and pop stores is what most people should be doing if they really wanted more livable wage jobs to be created...


You sound like you need a benefactor, meet me in my inbox

You're not thinking of the big picture.
If a mom and pop has employees that they are paying less than $10.10, they are paying ILLEGAL wages. so theyre gonna have a little problem declaring shyt at the end of the year.
not all people are gonna be able to handle this pay increase. most jobs cant even give their workers health care.
TRUST our dollar isnt gonna inflate china just fukked that up for us. go do some research bout the fact they aint stokkpiling our dollars and want us to pay our debt.




i support mom and pop establishments, but not ALL are gonna be able to pay the new minimum wage of $10.10
i say maybe 60% survive.

 

[Astroslik]

mom and pop stores dont pay their employees minimum wage like some fukking sheisters tho

 

[MikelArteta]

raising it to $10 is gonna put the mom and pop type business boom out of business. unless they turned themselves into a chain or have a high profit margin where they can pay each employee an extra $3 an hour.
all i know is location is gonna be everything in a few years. and if you're not living in an area where you can work and survive comfortably, you're better off dead... cuz when this hits its only gonna enable those who can find a job that CAN pay such high wages.
im for the raise in wages... but think about how many bosses or business owners are gonna go broke bc theyre gonna have to raise their prices while the BIG BUSINESS has the same shyt for cheaper.
its a catch 22.
minimum income is better than minimum wage ONLY if you know your income can trump the wage.

not only that
raising it to 10 will cut hours and shifts as well but of course peole dont think of that.

like all hose mcdonalds and walmart workers crying for 15 a hour, sure take your 15, and have two cashiers and 2 folks in the back, or go from working 40 hours a week at 8 bucks to now 18 hours at 15.

if your struggling then move away, there are places in north america that are cheap and you can get by not making alot.

 

[Poitier]

not only that
raising it to 10 will cut hours and shifts as well but of course peole dont think of that.

like all hose mcdonalds and walmart workers crying for 15 a hour, sure take your 15, and have two cashiers and 2 folks in the back, or go from working 40 hours a week at 8 bucks to now 18 hours at 15.

if your struggling then move away, there are places in north america that are cheap and you can get by not making alot.

This isn't true. Companies have to have labor regardless. Less labor equals worse service equals negative revenue. McDonalds and Walmart would close tons of locations but guess what? Mom and pop shops would then have a niche that they haven't had since overseas labor fukked them over.

 

[aRoMaN21]

not only that
raising it to 10 will cut hours and shifts as well but of course peole dont think of that.

like all hose mcdonalds and walmart workers crying for 15 a hour, sure take your 15, and have two cashiers and 2 folks in the back, or go from working 40 hours a week at 8 bucks to now 18 hours at 15.

if your struggling then move away, there are places in north america that are cheap and you can get by not making alot.

The world is changing, and most Americans have absolutely no idea what this is going to mean for them. As demand for the U.S. dollar and U.S. debt goes down, the things that we buy at the store will cost a lot more, our standard of living will go down and it will become a lot more expensive for everyone (including the U.S. government) to borrow money.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much that can be done about any of this at this point. When it comes to economics, China has been playing chess while the United States has been playing checkers. And now decades of very, very foolish decisions are starting to catch up with us.

The false prosperity that most Americans are enjoying today will soon start disappearing, and most of them will have no idea why it is happening.

The years ahead are going to be very challenging, and so I hope that you are getting ready for them.

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

not only that
raising it to 10 will cut hours and shifts as well but of course peole dont think of that.

like all hose mcdonalds and walmart workers crying for 15 a hour, sure take your 15, and have two cashiers and 2 folks in the back, or go from working 40 hours a week at 8 bucks to now 18 hours at 15.

if your struggling then move away, there are places in north america that are cheap and you can get by not making alot.

i dont know why you think its alright for these big cops to hold people hostage and ish like that. they can easily pay 10 an hour they just a greedy as fuk only reason they would cut shifts and what not is to be dirty as fukk . it wouldnt hurt them 1 bit.

 

[MikelArteta]

This isn't true. Companies have to have labor regardless. Less labor equals worse service equals negative revenue. McDonalds and Walmart would close tons of locations but guess what? Mom and pop shops would then have a niche that they haven't had since overseas labor fukked them over.

breh i live in canada where min wage is 10.50 and when it was rasied from 8.75 i remember working at some crummy call center, and suddenly my 30 hour shifts after school were cut down to one or two nights a week if i were lucky

 

[aRoMaN21]

This isn't true. Companies have to have labor regardless. Less labor equals worse service equals negative revenue. McDonalds and Walmart would close tons of locations but guess what? Mom and pop shops would then have a niche that they haven't had since overseas labor fukked them over.

Hes not talking bout mcdonalds and walmart.
hes talking bodegas and mom and pop type ish.
half the time those employees are working off the books for more than minimum wage.. but trust it aint no $10.10.
mom and pop wont have no niche cuz walmart and mcdonalds wont ever close a building without turning it into another chain they own.

 

[MikelArteta]

pack up and leave is what I say, many places in the world you can live like a king with half the salary you are making struggling in the us, but peole are so comfortable and scared of the unknown.

 

[Kings County]

not only that
raising it to 10 will cut hours and shifts as well but of course peole dont think of that.

like all hose mcdonalds and walmart workers crying for 15 a hour, sure take your 15, and have two cashiers and 2 folks in the back, or go from working 40 hours a week at 8 bucks to now 18 hours at 15.

if your struggling then move away, there are places in north america that are cheap and you can get by not making alot.

i think they should only raise it for large corporations

 

[Poitier]

breh i live in canada where min wage is 10.50 and when it was rasied from 8.75 i remember working at some crummy call center, and suddenly my 30 hour shifts after school were cut down to one or two nights a week if i were lucky

A call center is the lowest level of skilled labor possible. Anything that requires a physical body to execute a service isn't given the same luxury.

Hes not talking bout mcdonalds and walmart.
hes talking bodegas and mom and pop type ish.
half the time those employees are working off the books for more than minimum wage.. but trust it aint no $10.10.
mom and pop wont have no niche cuz walmart and mcdonalds wont ever close a building without turning it into another chain they own.

lol you don't know what you are talking about. They won't open another chain because they'd be making net negative profits. Those companies make record profits off inexpensive labor, raising minimum wage pulls the rug from under their foot.

 

[MikelArteta]

i dont know why you think its alright for these big cops to hold people hostage and ish like that. they can easily pay 10 an hour they just a greedy as fuk only reason they would cut shifts and what not is to be dirty as fukk . it wouldnt hurt them 1 bit.

but let me guess, you have no problem buying your big mac and fries or going ot walmart for your groceries.

we like the prices and we like the convenience factor

yeah walmart can pay their emplyoees more all they would do is pass off that extra money they are paying to the customer, a hiring freeze and more part time jobs instead of full time

 

[MikelArteta]

i think they should only raise it for large corporations

are you willing to pay more?

 

[Poitier]

We've already had this discussion btw http://www.thecoli.com/threads/huffington-post-does-study-on-minimal-wage-being-21-72.166895/

Most of you are arguing exactly what a mega corporation would want you to

are you willing to pay more?

The raise in wages would be larger than the raise in expenses from inflation

 

[aRoMaN21]

pack up and leave is what I say, many places in the world you can live like a king with half the salary you are making struggling in the us, but peole are so comfortable and scared of the unknown.

america was once the land of the free... home of the brave...
the tragic shakespearean irony of it all.
we are laughed at by the world; who will witness our demise.