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San Francisco follows Seattle as it votes in a $15 minimum wage
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:28 am
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:28 am
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I guess I'm old school when I say if you want more money, you should work on getting a better job.
I haven't made minimum wage since I was bagging groceries at age 17 and I don't understand grown arse adults wanting the government to force their employers to pay them like college graduates for a shite job.
I guess I'm old school when I say if you want more money, you should work on getting a better job.
I haven't made minimum wage since I was bagging groceries at age 17 and I don't understand grown arse adults wanting the government to force their employers to pay them like college graduates for a shite job.
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Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:29 am to sorantable
And Cali is broke enough as it is
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:29 am to sorantable
That minimum wage isn't feasible in the poorer parts of the country. Small businesses in rural parts of America would be crushed.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:32 am to sorantable
I wonder what happens to the people already making $15/hr when this happens. Are there any stats on it yet?
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:33 am to sorantable
Absurd. Low skill workers deserve a pay to match their jobs. It's absurd that these people want the same pay as many nurses, police officers, etc.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:35 am to sorantable
Aren't those two the most expensive cities to live in? So they may need a little more money than us in the South to survive.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:35 am to sorantable
If fast food joints are going to pay $15 per hr maybe they can get some people in them that actually fricking work.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:36 am to sorantable
What does this solve? Basic Econ suggest when price inputs increase so do prices. Everything will just get more expensive.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:37 am to Hardy_Har
Not likely unless its Chickfila
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:38 am to sorantable
They dont call Cali the land of fruits and nuts for nothing.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:39 am to sorantable
As if inflation hasn't been happening since "quantitative easing" has occurred, this is certainly not going to help.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:44 am to Hogwall Jackson
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Aren't those two the most expensive cities to live in? So they may need a little more money than us in the South to survive.
I would say they should move if they can't afford to live in a certain community or city. That's what normal people have to do.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:53 am to sorantable
It's amazing how entire cities can be ignorant about economics.
The only circumstance under which I'd agree that low skill workers should get $15 an hour is if they get sterilized.
The only circumstance under which I'd agree that low skill workers should get $15 an hour is if they get sterilized.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:58 am to DownSouthJukin
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As if inflation hasn't been happening since "quantitative easing" has occurred
Uh...not really.
The dollar is very strong relative to pretty much every currency out there. It's a part of the lower gas prices you are currently seeing.
Wage growth has been pretty much flat and that's typically your driver of inflation. Fuel costs and droughts have caused an uptick in food prices and other goods, but that's not inflation.
To the topic at hand, I understand raising the minimum wage some in cities with a high cost of living like SF. The national minimum wage isn't enough to get by in those places. Now a spike to $15 may be extreme, but I understand the sentiment.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 10:59 am to sorantable
Title should read:
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San Francisco follows Seattle as it pushes development in the automated fast food kiosk industry
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:11 am to sorantable
SF and Cali have had higher minimum wages than the national for lame time.
$15 in SF is like $9 in Louisiana when you factor in everything. People can't live and work in the city and low skill workers are needed. The problem is that the entire Bay Area is getting super expensive, so who will they get to do the low wage service jobs if you can't live within 100 Miles of the place. A $15 minimum wage (or higher) actually makes economic sense there - otherwise, how can the workers needed actually live close enough to their jobs?
It is the Free Market that actually has created this situation.
$15 in SF is like $9 in Louisiana when you factor in everything. People can't live and work in the city and low skill workers are needed. The problem is that the entire Bay Area is getting super expensive, so who will they get to do the low wage service jobs if you can't live within 100 Miles of the place. A $15 minimum wage (or higher) actually makes economic sense there - otherwise, how can the workers needed actually live close enough to their jobs?
It is the Free Market that actually has created this situation.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:12 am to Duke
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It's a part of the lower gas prices you are currently seeing.
Right now-it is a small part. A larger part is the oversupply of oil.
I'm not talking about CPI-that's baloney anyway. I'm taking about prices for everyday items, such as... food. Have you been to the grocery store lately? Notice the increase in price over the past several years, and the decrease in volume of product per package?
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Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:14 am to DMagic
Chick fil a isn't legal in San Francisco.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:19 am to Duke
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The dollar is very strong relative to pretty much every currency out there. It's a part of the lower gas prices you are currently seeing.
So it has nothing to do with the huge shale we are producing in house right now thus are importing less? Less importing= less cost to bring the good to the US = lower cost to consumers.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 11:24 am to Duke
This will affect inflation. Think cost-push inflation. Companies are going to increase prices to get the same margin of return as before. Therefore the dollar isn't as strong.
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