FYI Tmaster - McDonalds and Walmart don't pay minimum wage.
Hard workers earn promotions. Promotions = pay increases.
System works.
Thanks for proving the point.
No point was really proven as pay doesn't correlate how hard a job is, just the value of the job.
BGleason22 posted...
Actual unemployment is at an all time low. The DOW is at record highs. Remind me, where in the supply-demand spectrum lies the current problem?
And unemployment doesn't always factor people not looking for work. DOW is at record highs largely due to promises made by the current president that are favorable to businesses. Stock Markets are largely an indicator to the profits of companies and companies can make better profits without selling more goods or services.
Plus wages have been stagnated for a while now. Poor and Middle class workers should actually be being paid more than they currently are and if this continues we will face another depression as a super poor class and a super wealthly class does not create a good economy.
Anyways since you haven't answered my question about whether or not you would take a better paying job over a full time job at McDonald's if the job at McDonald's was enough to pay for a basic standard of living + some extra I have no reason to continue this discussion.
You believe that people being paid min wage aren't hard workers and don't deserve to earn a decent standard of living, because you feel threaten by those min wage workers earning more money.
I have answered your question. I expect to be compensated based on my effort. As should anyone. People that are working MIN wage jobs, for a length of time that they expect to be able to survive on those wages, aren't those hard workers. If they were, like we've already agreed on, they'd get promoted and get better wages.
I've also stated, I think 5 times now, that I think MIN wage should be increased.
And why is it McDonalds? Shouldn't your example be a job that currently pays $15 (if that's the magic dollar amount that everyone agrees on is fair, if not $15, insert the number you think is fair)
Remember, if you increase min wage, you increase all wages across all industries.