Or have PTSD from that harsh, cruel thing that people with common sense call “reality”.
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That’s an easy Yes.
As I mentioned in my previous comment, around 40 percent of Americans aged 65 and over have disabilities.
You’re younger and not in that demographic so you don’t pay much attention now.
The older you get, you will though.
Yes. BUT, the slightest anti-trust action should be harshly penalized, perhaps by seizing/foreclosing the business. We can't possibly achieve that, so we have to implement less perfect solutions right?
Alternative view: workers realize they're worth more then they're paid, demand it or walk, profits go down. Owners ***** and moan endlessly for their entitled captured profits made by underpaying workers. Good God, small business owners are the most entitled whiny bitches in this country.
That’s the beauty of this system we have.
They can walk.
This country is built and works off of small businesses. And they aren’t nearly the whiniest or bitchiest or entitled.
Probably not in the top 3 if you break us down into groups. I’m not a small business owner fyi.
Yes, and that's what they've been doing. And a large contingent of our country has freaked out a out it, because those workers don't "deserve" the money they've negotiated in the free marketplace. Because it's not about economics to them, it's about a class system. To them, those workers are supposed to work for subsistence, and the owners are entitled to profit massively off their labor without fair compensation. That is their view of the world, period.
One example: agreeing not to poach workers from each others business.
The fraud in the SS and WC systems pales in comparison to the fraud in the VA system.
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I'd say it has more to do with the government benefits that they can receive that the weigh against the effort they put into an actual job. Remove that soft safety blanket and replace it with a more basic one to flatten the playing field. You'll see some workers being g more productive, businesses being more productive, and some workers realizing that can make more money elsewhere either working for a different company or starting new companies of their own...and all of that competition will make everyone's (who's willing to be productive) life a little better.
There's a lot of talk about what's wrong and who is to blame for various problems in America. Here's bit of reality that I'm not sure opinions and ideology answers: Federal data shows that life expectancy is declining and where it was 26 years ago. It's primarily a problem with poor Americans, especially poor white and black Americans. Asians do much better. Income inequality keeps increasing. France currently has the gdp/capita the U.S. had in 1997. The U.S. has the average life expectancy France had in 1989. Something isn't working properly in America and I suspect it's partly systemic and partly driven by personal behavior/choices. The marriage/education gap is partly to blame. There's a form of conservatism that's stuck in the 80s and a new left radicalism that allows rich people to protect their status by expressing support for woke causes without sacrificing anything that threatens their financial and social well-being.
Who is freaking out about people getting raises in fast food that were negotiated or market driven?
I’ll answer for you. No one or not any large group of people.
People in this thread are hitching at people Like you and southern law dog who think every person deserves middle class pay vs them earning it.
Im willing to bet I’ve done more for people to try and help them move up in life than most of you combined.
So you want workers to be paid more but you don’t want them to be able to change jobs when another similar business is willing to pay them more?
you people are really really dumb.
I believe he was advocating for the exact opposite of what you are suggesting.
Businesses colluding to not hire from one another is a blatant anti-trust law violation, and those businesses should be punished harshly whenever possible. But since it’s impossible to police anywhere close to 100%, and even harder to prosecute even when you have substantial evidence of violations, things like minimum wage laws and other worker protections become a necessary evil.
The problem with your “it’s fine if everything cost more because you can go get a better better job and make more and be fine” is it ignores retirees who have already banked their working years. Even if one could be aggressive enough with their savings to keep up with inflation it’s not smart for my 97 year old grandma to be aggressively investing. Higher minimum wages are nothing but a political ploy that is bad for poor and fixed incomes.
I agree. But too many people don’t realize that McDonalds is only a career for 1 out of 35 McDonald’s employees.
The real answer is for individual work forces to realize their actual worth and fight for it. Federal minimum wage hike will just raise the prices of everything at multiple steps in the supply chain.
But if one sector wants a closer pay to worth ratio, then great.
Unfortunately, somehow, McDonalds burger meal has tripled in price, yet the wages of their employees have not. Shrinkflation has happened, prices up 200%.
I split my profits with my employees way higher than the industry average. Why, because when I demand my employees to hustle, they do. Luckily, that is rare. But when needed, 7 employees work like 12.
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i think you are misunderstanding me. I’m 100% not for higher mandated minimum wages.
Oh sweetie. You think charitable contributions are the best way to help better people.
This is why you fail.
So are small businesses colluding to not hire each others workers?
I worked for an extremely wealthy small business owner. His model was “go to every restaurant around us and hire the food people away”.
That’s not anecdotal evidence either. Most rich people have the same thing in common. They want to get richer. They do that by hiring better people.
I agree. But too many people don’t realize that McDonalds is only a career for 1 out of 35 McDonald’s employees.
showing up to work on time?
Showing up daily?
Learning daily?
Treating the customers excellent daily?
Following instructions daily?
So what are the other 34 people doing to better themselves?
showing up to work on time?
Showing up daily?
Learning daily?
Treating the customers excellent daily?
Following instructions daily?
Ideally no, but realistically….yes…sometimes they do. And its impossible to catch everyone who does it….or who engage in similar acts to collectively suppress wages in an area with minimal competition. It’s certainly more common in rural areas like most of MS, and also more common in poor areas, which is unfortunate.
For example, if there were a Burger King and McDonald’s next door to each other in Macon, MS, and no other fast food restaurants for 30-40 miles, they certainly stand a lot to gain from either agreeing to match each other’s wages / annual raises, or agreeing not to hire from one another (or both). Never in writing, of course, but a handshake agreement. If you can keep both wages / benefits low and at the same time keep turnover low, its a huge advantage to the owners, is it not?
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Does that happen some? Sure.
there is no data or evidence to suggest it happens at some substantial level.
Prices at McDonald’s have roughly doubled since 2001 https://cockeyed.com/drivethru/mcdonalds_drive_thru_menu_comparison.html
Roughly 3.5% inflation rate
wages have almost doubled as well
Fast Food and Counter Workers
www.bls.gov
Roughly 2.8% inflation
a good plumber or a good electrician can make a damn good living these days. you know why? supply and demand
Roughly 15% of the population is over 70.
About 23.5% is over 65.
Please make this math work for me.
The govt has already forced labor costs up. When they paid people $15/hr to sit on their backside for a couple years. In addition, some states were paying unemployment on top of that. Anyone who wanted people to come to work had to "outbid" the govt. Once you get to those wages it's almost impossible to go back.
No one will ever make any real gains by raising minimum wage. People will just have more bills with the same buying power they had before.
You automatically assume you've got all business owners P&L Statements at your disposal. Where would we be without small bidness owners?
So you don't do any charitable giving? I thought I was lobbing you a softball to let us all know how much money you toss at regular, easy, tax deductible causes. I do quite a bit of charitable giving to things that I've vetted, worked with, and KNOW exactly how my money helps others.
BUT, I'll play this one too. Total amount spent to help a single or multiple poor/less fortunate people move forward in 2022?
It's mostly about standard of living. Many times immigrants are willing to live in ways that Americans are not: many people to a home/apt, share a car, etc. Living like this in America is a huge step up from whatever they left behind, so they are willing to do so. For most Americans to live that way, basically pooling inadequate living wages to survive, is not acceptable to them. Some of that likely has to do with their access to taxpayer provided support systems, and it is still a crappy way to live but it is all they really know, so that is just how it is.
How can the IRS "come after" me for using Venmo? Legit question. First I've heard of this.
The answer is audits involving transactions over $600 that THEY deem suspicious. Of the 87,000 new "agents" that we are supposedly going to hire we'll be lucky is 10% of them have any common sense at all. If that's the case there will be thousands of unnecessary, time wasting and possibly expensive audits. If you've done nothing wrong you'll probably pay no penalty but you'll be out the time and headache of dealing with a frivolous audit. Just my take and I may be dead wrong.
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