07-02-2017, 11:14 PM
Besides being offensive, your position is just indefensible. Here's why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
This is what America is, and always has been, all about Dave.
Ordinary people like you and me seeing a market for a product or service and taking a risk to become successful.
When you more than double the minimum wage you make that opportunity far more cost prohibitive.
You deserve the opportunity to walk dogs for people or clean their offices while you build a book of business large enough to hire others to help you, and then finally do it for you, hopefully becoming a big business like McDonalds or Starbucks. Both businesses started by regular guys like you, now cited as an example of businesses who can afford to pay the higher wages. (although I note without data on whether their labor hours have decreased in the wake of this wage)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s
Quote: In 1937, their father Patrick McDonald opened "The Airdrome", a food stand, on Huntington Drive (Route 66) near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California[2] with hot dogs being one of the first item sold. Hamburgers were later added to the menu at a cost of ten cents with all-you-can-drink orange juice at five cents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
Quote:The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1971,[14] by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco:[15] English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them his style of roasting beans
This is what America is, and always has been, all about Dave.
Ordinary people like you and me seeing a market for a product or service and taking a risk to become successful.
When you more than double the minimum wage you make that opportunity far more cost prohibitive.
You deserve the opportunity to walk dogs for people or clean their offices while you build a book of business large enough to hire others to help you, and then finally do it for you, hopefully becoming a big business like McDonalds or Starbucks. Both businesses started by regular guys like you, now cited as an example of businesses who can afford to pay the higher wages. (although I note without data on whether their labor hours have decreased in the wake of this wage)