Raising minimum wage is needed

A LOT OF BUSNIESSES ARE BARELY MAKING IT DURING THIS PANDEMIC...HOW DO THEY COME UP WITH ALL THAT EXTRA CASH?...GOOD IDEA,BAD TIMING.

The standard argument is...

1. It's MINIMUM wage. It's not supposed to be something you live on forever, buy a house with, feed all your kids.
2. Companies will downsize and it will affect employment, service, and quality. You'll have fewer waiters, fewer people ringing up your orders, etc.
3. It will cause more automation/computers doing regular work. Fewer people working at a checkout line and more auto-checkout. You'll be ordering your next Big Mac from a computer, not a person.
4. It will cause more people to work less hours. You might think that's a good thing, but if you're making $13 or $14 an hour and suddenly get that extra dollar more, your employer might cut back your hours two or three a week and you'll end up losing money. I guess you can get a second job with that extra time.

It sounds great but what are the actual costs? Will it cause reduced hours, cut jobs, move towards automation, price increases, kill smaller businesses?

I’d say there’s a good chance of all that. There’s got to be some repercussions. I don’t see can’t even see bigger companies that are able to eat the cost wanting to. Shit rolls downhill.

It’s not meant to be a living wage. These types of jobs are for high school kids, college kids, first time being employed. It’s that first step job or extra cash job. No hamburger flipper is worth $15.00 an hr.!
Every time it’s raised jobs are lost. When was the last time you pulled into a service station to gas up and sit in your vehicle? A low wage worker filled your tank, washed your windshield, checked the oil & tires if you asked. I knew men who took those second jobs in order to make extra money. Nowadays we go inside a restaurant and you may see one or two servers. The order is placed on the tablet and the kitchen staff serves it. Where did all the grocery cashiers go? They lost their jobs due to self-checkout. Why? The government telling private industry what to pay their workers!

There was a day when businesses competed with other businesses by offering higher pay...not because the government told them they had to pay more. If you didn’t like what you were being paid you went somewhere else. Most big companies on their own want the better worker so they stay competitive.

Because there has to be some jobs that are low paying, low skill.

A summer job for a college kid cannot be the same as someone who works that job thinking it will support a family

Raising the minimum wage creates big business to look into more robotics and automated technology.

Raising minimum wage will cause big business to hire eveyone half time.
Instead of working 8 hours , more people will work 4. Half time work will also avoid these companies from playing taxes

Restaurants especially during this time just cannot afford it. 15 minimum wage would damage small. Business.

And what was the previous minimum wage? Increase that drastic is just radical. Should be more slowly worked into the system.


But this thinking sums up the Democrats. Short thinking, no thought of long term effects.

McDonald's Grill Cook is a job meant for teenagers to learn the (value?)of the dollar. Not for lazy adults that don't practice birth control.

I don't necessarily disagree, but how do you force a company to pay it's employees more money; especially if they can't afford it?

Jesse Ventura is advocating a maximum wage.