The fun part about this argument is the people who say raise minimum wage can't see the forest for the trees. The people who would be hurt the most by this are the people who make minimum wage because their jobs would disappear so fast it would make your head spin. In Florida, a vote just passed to raise minimum wage to $15/hour by 2026. People are dumb.

I really and truly believe these morons think business owners and managers will just gladly accept the loss from their own pockets to give these unskilled laborers more money. If McDonald's had to pay their workers $15/hour, they would go to damn near full automation because of the long term savings on overhead.

Small businesses everywhere who employ high school kids to help clean up and run the cash registers would go under or have to fire their workers to survive.

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Posted by chillmonster

Atlanta, GA

Member since Dec 2018

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Posted on 12/8/20 at 11:53 am to VADawg

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The fun part about this argument is the people who say raise minimum wage can't see the forest for the trees. The people who would be hurt the most by this are the people who make minimum wage because their jobs would disappear so fast it would make your head spin

This has been done many times all over the country and all over the world. That fear is overblown.

McDonalds is going to automation with or without the wage increase. Every job a machine can do a machine will do. You really think that extra $150k/year they'd spend is the tipping point? They're already spending that all over the world.

Wages in manufacturing have lagged way behind inflation for 4 decades and automation eliminated those jobs. That's not a reason to keep wages depressed.

- and that's coming from someone with lower wage employees.

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