06-09-2016, 12:02 PM
At any rate, an increase in the base minimum wage a bit over-due, when looking at historic increases over the past decades.
Why care so much about the Subway franchise owner making $150K per year, when he could just as well still make $100K per year, while the workers making your precious sandwiches could actually manage the cost of living a bit better without being screwed so badly?
It's like tipping the waitress 20-30% when you could get away with tipping only 10%... do you really care about the "marginal job" worker?
I'd rather support the poor than support the cause of greater income inequality (which is why I tip more than the "satisfactory 15% rule")... and I wouldn't care about supporting the restaurant manager unless I KNOW that the manager isn't making so much off of me. If I know that the manager is doing so much keeping the restaurant in business while providing food at such low prices, then I'd go through the trouble to tip the manager as well (and buy extra stuff like appetizers, desserts, extra drinks, etc..).
Otherwise, keeping the minimum wage at the old minimum isn't doing the waitress or the Subway sandwich maker any good (at least in the immediate term, that is.) Sure, more and more jobs will be replaced by automated robots doing the same work, but robots are projected to replace the workforce at such a high rate within the next 15 years or so - that there might be a bright side to it.
The bright side (if you could see it as "bright") is that it would just push companies to replace menial workers with robots at an accelerated pace. Then there would be less of us doing semi-mindless jobs.
Dis da future!
Why care so much about the Subway franchise owner making $150K per year, when he could just as well still make $100K per year, while the workers making your precious sandwiches could actually manage the cost of living a bit better without being screwed so badly?
It's like tipping the waitress 20-30% when you could get away with tipping only 10%... do you really care about the "marginal job" worker?
I'd rather support the poor than support the cause of greater income inequality (which is why I tip more than the "satisfactory 15% rule")... and I wouldn't care about supporting the restaurant manager unless I KNOW that the manager isn't making so much off of me. If I know that the manager is doing so much keeping the restaurant in business while providing food at such low prices, then I'd go through the trouble to tip the manager as well (and buy extra stuff like appetizers, desserts, extra drinks, etc..).
Otherwise, keeping the minimum wage at the old minimum isn't doing the waitress or the Subway sandwich maker any good (at least in the immediate term, that is.) Sure, more and more jobs will be replaced by automated robots doing the same work, but robots are projected to replace the workforce at such a high rate within the next 15 years or so - that there might be a bright side to it.
The bright side (if you could see it as "bright") is that it would just push companies to replace menial workers with robots at an accelerated pace. Then there would be less of us doing semi-mindless jobs.
Dis da future!