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Nuvendil on 25 May 2016
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Mr Puggsly said:
Azuren said:

Replacing jobs with robots isn't progress, at least not the kind any economy needs. $15 is way too high to pay burger flippers, but $7.25 is too low to pay many other jobs that exploit minimum wage. The problem isn't the minimum wage, or the job itself: It's these giant collections of excrement called "CEOs" that would sooner put millions out of jobs than to take a 1% pay decrease. They continuously try to shift blame elsewhere, but at the end of every argument, they're the ones who decide what happens. Example of when companies do right by their employees, regardless of current minimum wages and laws: Hobby Lobby. 

Hobby Lobby pays part time employees $11 an hour, and it pays full time employees $15. All positions have room for raises, though there's a cap on how much a position can be paid. They offer reasonably priced benefits, and you get every Sunday off to go to church or, like me, not go to church. 

The problem is there are very few companies that recognize their employees as people. 

Throughout the years technology has gotten rid of many job. Its not necessarily a bad thing, this why we dont spend our lives working on farms and instead do other tasks.

I think 7.25 is fine for a fast food job. Any employee worth something will get a raise to stay or move onto another job. This is why a very tiny percentage of this country makes minimum wage.

Companies pay CEOs a lot of money for reasons I dont understand. But hey, its their money. I'm more bothered by tax money being spent on things I dont support or encourages people to do nothing with their life.

I'd like to see many low skill jobs treat their employees better but thats a different discussion.

You should check your math on that $7.25.  Full time for a fast food joint is ~30 hours.  That means 7.25 nets you less than 12k a year.  From what I can find, most people that get a raise but aren't shift managers (the rank and file) make around 8.50 which brings us to a whopping 13k a year.  That is impossible to live on.  Shoot, two people working that job could barely scratch by living together.  $15 is insane, but raising it to 9 to 12 depending on the region would be completely sensible, it just needs to be regionally determined. 

But yes, fast food companies are fully aware of and not at all opposed to employees coming and going pretty regularly.  They aren't looking to provide a career for their rank and file.  And frankly, I don't see why anyone would want to PURSUE a career there.  But the minimum wage is still way too low for people to even *survive* on in such industries. 

CEOs making a lot of money is another topic I've touched on plenty in this thread so I won't repeat myself but suffice it to say *anyone* can flip a burger.  90% of people could not run McDonalds.