Poh SIti Dawn
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I don't know, if you're American and you're pissed about making minimum wage then it's your own fault. Stop settling for less and expecting more.
Fast food workers strike, demanding $15 an hour
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Are you implying they would cut down on their profits voluntarily?
You sure you aint the one who don't know economics
Shut up, lil niqqa.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html
Why do they deserve $15 an hour?
NubianVitruvian
Retired
Good for them. I support this cause. The economic chain is only as strong as the weakest link. They need this. We shouldn't be eating that shyt anyways.
NubianVitruvian
Retired
Why don't they? This raises the poverty line in a way. Gives an entry level position a chance to make a life for themselves. They work too much for too little. In the bigger picture this helps society as a whole.
What is this "deserve" talk about? Why does anyone deserve any salary provided? Im not going to get into the job duties that somehow preparing and handling food for thousands of people a day is unimportant work.
Its all about what workers can negotiate and leverage. A spike in pay for mcdonalds workers would mean a spike in pay for workers across all industries, which will increase aggregate demand for businesses through the marginal propensity to consume, and boost our overall economy. Its just amazing to me how average everyday Americans, continue to argue on behalf of the 1%. I mean, holy sht!
Which would you rather, the government keeps subsidizing these peoples lives, or a private entity actually starts to pay them an amount they can live off of?
The poverty line just stays the same. Thats the point. Prices go up for everyone when wages go up.
There is more shyt to buy than you needed 50 years ago. Just raising wages doesn't eliminate poverty like that.
Trust me. I'm all about improving well-being, but paying people more than they're worth isn't how you do it.
This is McDonald's we're talking about. Not IBM.
I don't doubt that they should have leverage. They should get whatever they can work out...but at some point, you have to ask why they want THAT much more.
If I'm making $20/hr do I think its reasonable to ask for $45? Sure. I can ask, but do you really think I'll get it?
A spike in wages doesn't necessarily equate to "demand in businesses"...because while some industries make money hand over fist, not all wage increases lift them out of poverty.
Ya'll can't keep equating all types of jobs as being worthy...and yes i'm using that word...WORTHY of being held higher than they are.
I'm not even trying to argue for corporations, but some people really forget that McD's ain't meant to be a damn career.
Ya'll might as well argue for a national living wage given out by the government to all citizens instead of trying to make it seem like working at McD's means you're seeing $15/hr checks.
Mind you, I know college researchers and grad students who do FAR more intensive work for barely $11-12/hour.
Are you saying McD's workers should be making more than them?
It's really not settling, it's not having much of a choice
We're caught in a bind.. accept a shytty job that has you struggling to pay bills, or have no job at all?
Corporations and food chains pay very little to their workers because they're very aware of the uneducated, poor and middle class struggle. What person with no job is going to say no? Not many, because they know we're desperate, the position we're in gives us very little choices. So they take advantage of us.
it's wage slavery.
Great point...and thats why private companies STILL react by offering low wages because they replace those workers.
If this isn't motivation to rise up out of a low wage situation, I don't know what will be.
This article doesn't make any sense.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/co...donalds_salaries_would_cause_your_big/cbdb17s
COST OF LIVING is the problem, not the minimum wage.