The effect that California’s $15 minimum wage will have was just revealed
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it’s devastating
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Just Revealed is it?
Baloney
EVERY TIME
the minimum wage is raised the same exact thing happens.
unions get a BIG raise, since their pay on government contracts is a multiple of the local minimium wage.
the prices go up.
business that were barely holding on...fail.
other businesses see the writing on the wall and leave
(Texas is ready when you are...no income tax)
and lots and lots of jobs go away...never to return.
Lately there's a new twist.
why pay people when robots are cheaper?
the wage that an employer pays is less that half of what an employee cost him. In some states, such as california...it's much less than half. At some point it's cheaper to buy (or rent) a robot to do the job instead of putting up with the hassel of people.
Once that line is crossed..they never come back.
but what about the families,
I really wish people would think for two seconds, most of the people outside the workforce are either one: not qualified, or not motivated, or both which the worst cases are, so for the minimum wage, people would mostly be doing menial tasks since nobody would trust them with responsibility, so point being, why do you want semi responsible, unqualified and or unmotivated workers for which you have to pay extra...
I'm all for a more opened up market but it won't come from state control or market monopoly, neither wishy-washy minimum wages, so anyways, California is America's crown jewel so it can be as liberal as it wants to be, for the most part Americans are brainslept and just like when Detroit was capitol of manufacturing, which quickly got demolished by interests from everywhere, California being the capitol of Entertainment might topple as soon as people start living and breathing again, humm you could also say Washington is the capitol of Entertainment :D
From another perspective the people in the picture are really happy they will be bringing in more when they come home to the table, also the whole campaign looks like it cost someone some hefty dollars, that's design, branding .... marketing you could say, scapegoats, lot's of costs to amount for, some damage better be done :D
I didn't know that about union labor costs. That's definitely a force multiplier with some pretty devastating effects.
I do know that I've got someone coming to look at my oil burner today and their labor cost is $90/hour. Sheesh. I wonder how much of that goes to the worker?
When we owned a flower shop, it was eye-opening how much it cost to pay someone a living wage. We paid $15/hour for a qualified designer (minimum wage was around $7 at the time) but by the time the payroll company finished adding in all the required extras, they got around $11 and we paid almost $30. So no surprise that we started doing all the work ourselves. I'd use the vacation time from my other job to deliver flowers around Valentine's and Mothers' Day.
After a couple years we sold that business with a hearty "Never Again!"
We live in tough times! Support your local businesses. $15 is not a lot considering the cost of rent in CA. Many families and friends will need to live together as roomates to offset this cost.
This isn't so bad. More family time, less social media time?
yeah about that, have you seen anyone without a phone recently, kids without tablets, tv, computers, phones, smart watches, CA looks like one of the most trendy bullshit places, I know it's not the minimum wage workers, but still.
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cheers and good luck
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