Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour

[Azuren]

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.

Jobs vanishing are never a good thing. Ever. There's a growing population and a dwindling number of jobs, and no matter what kind of magic math you do, that doesn't add up to "good".

 

You dodged the second point, which was that minimum is okay for food, not okay elsewhere (to which it is being applied). And no, people don't really ever make more in the food industry, and most minimum wage jobs don't go anywhere, either.

 

If you're more worried about lazy people than you are people who are actively making life worse across the board for everyone by charging more and paying less, then you just simply need to get your priorities straight. Tax money has been spent o. more useless endeavors. That said, I don't care for those who leech on society, either; I fully believe that all forms of government assistance need to be heavily monitored, and all (except disability and retirement) require a documented job.