Euphoria14 said:
Mr Khan said:
Euphoria14 said:
What shocks me are the ones complaining while saying they worked at one fast food establishment for years.
Never thought to look for a different job? Don't tell me you couldn't find something after 5 years. Restaurants hire servers and bussers all the time and both of those pay more than fast food, albeit it requires much more stressful work.
I know because I have worked both and being a server sucks.
Working at McDonald's sucked too, which is why I quit. I did it between jobs and I felt terrible as a 22 year old working around a bunch of 15 year olds.
You bet your ass I had a fire lit under my ass to straighten that problem out real fast. I job searched like a fiend until I found something with better pay. Then while working there I worked hard AND continued my search for a better paying job. I eventually landed where I am now, making more than 3x what I made at McDonalds.
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Fun things about economics. Right now there are fewer job openings than there are unemployed (that's not counting the folks that gave up and left the job market altogether). If a wizard raised aloft his staff of power and sent every job-seeker to the right geographical location, there STILL wouldn't be enough jobs for people.
So, no. "searched like a fiend" worked for YOU. It CANNOT work for the market as a whole. We need to make sure everyone can earn a good living because if they can't, guess what? You're paying for them anyway.
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So what's the solution? Just start throwing bigger pay to unskilled workers? I'll be paying for that too.
You can't help everyone. It sucks but that is the truth.
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Marginal propensity to consume is what makes the magic happen there. The poor, being given more money, will spend it. It's a small price to pay in the short run to make us all better off.
