California Minimum Wage FAILS

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In this video, I discuss the negative impact of the dramatic increase in minimum wage in California & the cost to the workers
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[@ActualJusticeWarrior]

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[@aaroncooper6207]

Sean this is the same tired argument from the right about any minimum wage increase. This argument has been effective since the federal minimum wage has not increase since 2009, the longest period in federal minimum wage history. Let's debunk some of your assumptions. Even if California did not increase the minimum wage does not mean that your job is save from being automated from robots. Most likely those jobs would be lost anyway to automation just at a slightly slower pace. I know the liberaltarian right loves the idea of abolishing the minimum wage. The average American does not want to go back to when children worked in coal mines for 12 hours a day for $0.50. But I am sure some demented moron will argue how the bad government took jobs away from those poor kids.

[@catfishvega3728]

@@aaroncooper6207 basic laws of economics is not the "same tired argument from the right" lol. Liberals live in an alternate universe for real.

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[@devinanni8117]

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[@Sam.From.Wonderland]

Sean if you're hurting for money just say so, you've got a community right here to reach out to. No need to shill that wood pulp "cereal".... @aaroncooper6207 Why do all you fake-lefties always pull some centuries-old BS to support the stupid ideas you want to force on everyone?

[@brianburton1843]

Rush Limbaugh used to say. Corporations don't pay taxes. Consumers do.

[@omegaz3393]

@brianburton1843 That's a fact. Rush Limbaugh 100% correct. It's all calculated into the cost of the product. Shipping cost, building rent/cost, utilities, profit after taxes. Like if you expect to make $10 net profit after taxes and those taxes are 50%, then you price in $20. Thus after 50% tax, leaves a net profit of $10. That's the simple example. But it's all based on projected sales and overhead. If you fall short on projected sales, you adjust prices upwards if the market will support higher prices. If not, you may just close up shop and move on.

[@happydappyman]

And multiple times over!

[@waltlock8805]

Not quite true. Generally, they're already charging as much as they can. If they could raise the price more, they'd have done it already (see: the pandemic). What happens in reality is they pass some of the new cost to the consumer and eat the rest.

[@natmarelnam4871]

That's a dumb saying because obviously...

[@jmmywyf4lyf]

​​@@waltlock8805the market dictates the value of product.. in other words, what consumers are willing to pay

[@llamasugar5478]

The people who said they’d be willing to pay “a bit more” are almost certainly not the people who actually eat at McDonald’s, et. al.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

The truth is NOBODY is willing to pay a bit more. That's why all these restaurants are closing down. Everyone CLAIMS they will pay more, but in reality, they simply will stop eating out.

[@stinkfinga4918]

That's okay,mcdonalds can close. The migrant employees can leave.

[@MrJturner74]

They were talking about something like $1 more an order. Not per Item.

[@cassady7169]

@@MrJturner74 Correct. It’s like $.10-.25 more per item for this kind of wage increase. Oh, the world is ending.

[@neonnoir9692]

I'm probably in that category, but I'm not paying more. The quality of the food and employees fell off a cliff.

[@ThomasNappo]

20 BUCKS AN HOUR...NO MORE TIPPING 😂😂😂

[@jenanne31]

Believe me, they still want the tips.

[@YouTubePurgetheblackplague]

Just like the racist black judge in some state that was on the news.

[@user-xl5pc3jo5m]

The best tip I can give anyone is, "Don't go skinny dipping in the North Sea."

[@michelebrown9923]

thank you. i need to remember that

[@vi_EviL_iv]

Lol I only tip if I get excellent service. I'm not here to pay your bills or give you a tip for just doing your job that you already get paid for.

[@zekehanscom5869]

These "fast food" jobs were never meant to be a career. They were intended to be an initial position to get some job history and MOVE ON to a better job.

[@Galfrid]

But better jobs have been farmed out to China or with the "undocumented"...

[@ksfallenangel5770]

California keeps getting worse and worse.

[@amzarnacht6710]

It won't just stay in Cali so long as the people holding he money are never forced to pay their proper taxes on it.

[@M167A1]

​@@amzarnacht6710 fair share?

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV]

​@amzarnacht6710 what does that have to do with mass democratic corruption?

[@insertoyouroemail]

Sounds like California is on a race to the bottom.

[@middleguy1776]

It's not bad enough yet

[@EsotericOccultist]

I completely stopped eating out. Between the high prices and all the degeneracy everywhere it's just not worth it.

[@Dulcimertunes]

Healthier to eat at home

[@D-Fens_1632]

I worked in fast food for years and it turned me off of eattng it over 20 years ago. And I've never been a fan of restaurants, though I will get some takeout Thai every once in a while, couple times a year. Now that my neighborhood has gotten super ghetto that even if I did still eat fast food I would definitely travel out of town for it.

[@specs6637]

Agreed

[@uberman6023]

Starbucks is closing bathrooms to the public and emptying the store of furniture. Take out and delivery only.

[@OhNotThat]

Inflation happened everywhere, despite no increase in federal minimum wage in several states. Really gets the noggin a joggin huh?

[@2amichaelj]

Fun fact: Gavin Newsom's restaurant workers don't get paid $20 an hour. I wonder how that happened?

[@ElinWinblad]

Breeaaad

[@yvettebowles9011]

That would explain why the living wage is only for employees at big chain restaurants.

[@2amichaelj]

@@ElinWinblad gee I wonder why he passed that particular law that somehow benefited his largest campaign donor and his own restaurant. Must be a big coincidence.

[@Idle585]

Sources?

[@2amichaelj]

@@Idle585 Greg Flynn. Look up how much he donated to Gavin Newsom's campaign the past 5 years. The new minimum wage law that Gavin signed in like a month ago only benefits a few companies which coincidentally happen to be large donors to Gavin Newsom's campaigns. There's also rumors that Flynn's supporters and underlings also donate under pseudonyms and their own names because legally you're only allowed to donate so much money. Let's be real though. Democrats and republicans alike do 💩 like this. I don't trust any of them.

[@shawnsereal4175]

When I was a teenager in the 1980's, 95% of the fast food workers were between 16 and 21 years old. The malls, the movie theaters, and the newspaper delivery. Today its mostly older people who need to supplement their ssn or who didnt have enough to make it through their retirement years. What a shame.

[@ElinWinblad]

That’s what you get after decades of decades of non-replenishment birth rates you run out of teenagers to supply the stores so you have to hire adults

[@joeyoung4121]

The Govt taxing is so much both husband & wife have to work if you guys are married. Otherwise you'll need a roommate. They are destroying the economy.

[@ChristianF15cher]

I am a recent employee of a Jimmy John’s in Pennsylvania. The youngest employee is 28, oldest is 62.

[@bobjacobson858]

The video mentioned that 60% of the employees are 24 y/o or less--but that means 40% are older than 24 y/o which may include some twice that age or older.

[@AtrusOranis]

>Government considers interfering in the market. >Sane economists predict bad stuff happening. >Government laughs, interferes in the market anyways >Bad stuff happens >Government: [shocked Pikachu face] >Sane economists: [facepalm] >Robert Reich: "Somehow, this is a result of Capitalism".

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

I really can't stand that man.

[@LunarLocust]

Without capitalism, the government wouldn't have a free market to interfere with. So it is actually capitalisms fault.

[@lomalindasmogcheck1]

Governmentism

[@qwertyuiop-ke7fs]

Their goal is to destroy the middle class. It is on purpose. They consider them petit bourgeoisie, and desire to make everyone either a proletariat or bourgeoisie. The middle class stands in the way of this. They are essentially accelerationists like you find in the right wing. Except unlike the radical right wing, they have considerable power and influence.

[@Liukanginthehouse]

@@LunarLocust so you advocate for slavery since the means of production has no incentives without capitalism. lol

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

Trust me when I tell you: The guys who maintain the robots are going to want a lot more than $20 per hour.

[@Freedomcustom]

but an engineer is worth paying £20 an hour

[@angeloluna529]

Once robots take over the fast industry in the USA, the role of technician will become the next menial minimum wage job.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

Why not just build one more robot to maintain those first robots?

[@KraszuPolis]

Yeah but how often a robot that works 24/7 breaks? How often does it need a check up? It will be relatively small amount of working hours.

[@derekromero2331]

​@@Freedomcustom more like 70-140 depending on COL

[@fiveforbiting]

Anyone that thought raising min. wage was a solution for anything, shouldn't be forming policy anymore.

[@billr3053]

They should never have, and they should all go back to school and studies in economics. Sounds like these people just went by their feels and not by logic. Children.

[@Sonnabend00]

@@billr3053 Australia says hi there we raised the minimum wage and we are doing fine. Then again we dont pay slave wages.

[@danielashdown7824]

“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount-and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.” ― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

[@jennymelo2098]

Gosh... who could have ever predicted this.... Besides all of us?

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV]

Right? Anyone who took high school economics can tell this would happen. But I doubt they even teach economics in Californian high schools anymore anyway

[@animejanai4657]

You see something similar in Seattle. Currently, there was the minimum "effective wage" for GIG delivery workers was by the Seattle City Council to be roughly $26 per hour before tips. This living wage approach caused such high prices that many customers stopped getting food delivery as well as no longer eating at those restaurants in person.

[@cyryc]

wait till they realize a 'living wage' means a big mac costs your living. Circle jerking our way back to the plantations

[@cyryc]

@@animejanai4657 it's getting pushback tho. I live in Seattle and actually got a text poll on my phone. I fear the compromise will simply be to roll it back to $20/hr instead of abandoning it

[@SmallTownResident]

Barbara Lee was crazy enough to suggest that min wage should be $50 an hour! Basically she thinks burger flippers should make the same amount as an accountant or engineer 😆

[@riel0563]

As engineers we'll just get a lot of work to make sure fast food doesn't have to hire anyone. Sol essentially she's promoting them to unemployed.

[@WarlordShogun]

Thank you Barbara Lee for guaranteed job security for the engineering field but eff her for everyone else.

[@Merciless_Banana]

Sounds kinda like communism

[@tyreni]

Everyone getting paid the same wage? What a glorious idea comrade!

[@animejanai4657]

Representative Barbara Lee is the rep for the district which includes troubled Oakland. So her $50 per hour minimum wage demand is possibly influenced by her constituents who are used to entitlement money.

[@Buttonmstr]

Imagine you’re a business owner that somehow figured a way to still turn a profit when minimum wage increases like this. Now imagine you need to hire someone. Are you going to take a chance on someone brand new to the workforce or are you only going to be looking for older workers with years of experience in the industry? This is essentially killing opportunities for teens to get introduced to the workforce.

[@ShiZo1337]

I live in California and have figured out that even before this law, that small restaurants were just a bit more expensive than McDonald's, and it was a better deal to shop there. This will only make what was already happening worse

[@TheNativeTwo]

My local small restaurants are also going out of business… minimum wage for them just went up to $16/hr. They didn’t have strong margins to begin with… 😢

[@coolstorybruh88]

"There are no solutions, only trade offs." - Thomas Sowell.

[@jeffslote9671]

Ray Charles saw this coming

[@DoctorNERO616]

😎 🎵 you got the right one baby 🎶

[@carultch]

Even though he's dead?

[@LunarLocust]

He wasn't ever really blind

[@chrlpolk]

@LunarLocust You’re thinking of Stevie Wonder.

[@kathyyoung1774]

😅

[@noirmermaid692]

I live in CA. I cook at home or buy frozen dinners from Sprouts or Trader Joe’s to scratch that restaurant take out itch! I’ve been counting calories, losing weight and saving money in the process! win win for me! I miss eating out sometimes but the rare times I go out it’s not worth it. The restaurants are often running on a skeleton crew, the tables are dirty, the service is slow, the staff is unfriendly (over worked) and the food is often mid and overpriced.

[@tommurphy4307]

you should be growing some of your food, as well. you are in a good place for that.

[@jessco8950]

Why would I ever work construction making $18 an hour doing hard labor when I can flip burgers for $20 an hour… making fast food pay that much destroys the entire working eco-system

[@Imaprodigyy]

Then go do it and stop complaining

[@jessco8950]

@@Imaprodigyy your missing the point.

[@Imaprodigyy]

@jessco8950 you obviously don't live in california people here already was making close to $20/hrs to begin with and construction pays more here than $18 idiot

[@madogthefirst]

Easy I find construction less mind numbing.

[@bobbuns6881]

As someone who has done both labouring was far less mentally taxing. Shoveling 9 tons of dirt and gravel outside in the middle of summer and taking literal tones of latex and concrete up and down 3 sets of stairs don't even come close to the brain drain of making coffee all day and dealing with ignorant customers

[@carpentb17]

We stopped eating out for the most part. It’s too expensive to do otherwise.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

lmfao that's what I just told the guy above me. People virtue signal for internet points and claim they are willing to pay more. in reality, they just stop eating out.

[@neonnoir9692]

I can pay way more, but I'm not going to. Not only is it too expensive, but the people who work at these places are super gross looking

[@Dingus99268]

Who eats burgers everyday anyway?

[@ChristianGunNut2001]

Reminds me of a meme I saw in my KZbin feed a few days ago. The meme guy Wojak was upset at how expensive it is to make his own meals at home using items bought from the grocery store, but is perfectly happy eating out for every meal (which is even more expensive).

[@chrlpolk]

@neonnoir9692 Yeah that’s true, when you know people who are cooks at these restaurants. I can guarantee that the “Employees Must Wash Hands” signs in the bathroom are purely decorative.

[@RuthlessMillennium-pc7oq]

Between New York & California I don't know who's trying to be the most Twilight Zone state

[@OddOtter707]

NY first 😂

[@Dulcimertunes]

IL

[@wingzero7316]

Conservative states, texas, florida and other have high crime to.

[@baconthegatewaymeat9131]

@@wingzero7316Yea but crime isn’t legal there like it is here in California

[@wingzero7316]

@@baconthegatewaymeat9131 you correct

[@Dreedsfbay]

2 years ago I made $21k in fast food, part time at night, now I've been cut back to 18-20 hours a month at $20/hr. Thanks Gavin.

[@MoldyMcdonut]

How were you makeing 21k were you working 40+ hours a week with overtime

[@Dreedsfbay]

@@MoldyMcdonut Expensive area, high wages.

[@TheNativeTwo]

@@MoldyMcdonutmath is clearly not your thing… $21k a year is $10.5/hr with 40 hr work week. At 30 hr work week, that’s $14/hr, part time. Also he could be including tips…

[@MoldyMcdonut]

@TheNativeTwo I work in a low wage area I got paid 10$ an hour working fast food same with all the other restaurants around. And we rarely get 40 hours at best its 35

[@user-bi2nx2jr4q]

You voted for it so haha welcome to the real world

[@roberthicks5454]

I remember time and time again, I told people that raising the minimum wage would cost people their jobs AND raise prices. So many times, I was told, no, they will just eat the expense because they make so much money.

[@jr9655]

You are a 🤡

[@strategicperson95]

It's why the only people who champion minimum wage, really never worked a low end job, nor understand economics. They're the kind of people who really need to watch a 1967 Disney cartoon; but I doubt they'll still understand.

[@RIbigDave]

These are people who have not one clue about economics

[@roberthicks5454]

@@RIbigDave They are socialist. Their view of economics is that if someone has something, we all share.

[@RIbigDave]

@@roberthicks5454 never mind that socialism is a failed economic theory that can't work based on human nature. And they only pretend to care about most causes they support like civil rights or women what they care about is power. Socialism is perfect for control freaks

[@ryanbarker5217]

imagine working fast-food 'to support your family' while working next to a 15-year-old with a work permit saving up for a gaming computer.

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

So glad I as able to leave working grocery to get the job I have. Starting I got paid $10/hr more than the grocery one after being their for 5.5 years. Not to mention with a very good likelihood of having it be essentially double what I was making if I chose to stick around for like 2 or 3 years.

[@chrlpolk]

Yeah, imagine taking a job and working! They should be unemployed instead of taking jobs meant for teenagers! Which BTW was the business model, fast food owners said, “We should make jobs for teens,” and not that they hire teens as a downwards spiral to pay as low as possible to maximize profits so you can feel justified make asinine comments like this.

[@WBS001]

When I started out, while in college, I worked two jobs. One was a minimum wage job slinging burgers. The other was an unpaid internship working in my intended field. The time I put into that internship paid for itself 10,000 times over in increased wages commanded by the skills I learned. If you're trying to support your family on minimum wage, you need to learn a trade with some specialized skills so you can command more money for your services. And yes, it involves investing time and effort.

[@ryanbarker5217]

@@WBS001 even when you do manual labor, which i'd spent doing in factories for most of my working life, there's always more to learn. there's only so much you can learn at taco bell in terms of value to the company without advancing to management. too, we're compensated for work conditions and the sacrifice of our bodies and health. we all want to be fair and reasonable, but we have to balance that out with logic and experience. that's why people like myself who did fast food and have had real jobs will readily admit that fast food is work, but to be honest there is little comparison. the whole idea about working fast food to support a family holds little water. the hours simply aren't there for starters, nor are there enough adults who consider it a real job to be enticed to stay for long unless you have a reason why that's the only kind of work you can do. maybe they're lax on drug testing and you really like your weed, maybe you're an illegal, maybe you need something part-time and low-paying to stay under a certain income level for government benefits. where do these chuckleheads get the idea minimum wage is supposed to support a family as opposed to just supporting yourself? these are probably the same goofnuts who think smart phones are a human right. oh, yeah, unions and politicians pushing the appeal to emotion fallacy....

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

​@@WBS001Nobody talks about it, but that assumes people have the IQ to better themselves. That is NOT always true, sadly.

[@psychodad4982]

Kathy Hochul: I'm the worst Governor of New York Gavin Newsom: Hold My Bud Light

[@menzicosce]

Hochul is just an idiot. Newsome is like the aliens from V

[@verumbear4836]

Add Pritzker to the list, coming from someone in IL

[@SIKE01]

*country

[@StarkIndustries80]

You obviously don't know Newsome. You're too kind.

[@OhNotThat]

The way things are looking that's President Gavin Newsom to you

[@DudetaketheBus]

Being in the military… it’s ridiculous that the govt. thinks burger flippers deserve more protection financially, than we do!

[@welfare_baybee]

Joining the military is crazy. Why would you do that? Once you sign on the dotted line You are nothing but property to them and you will be treated accordingly.

[@DudetaketheBus]

@@welfare_baybee mannnn that’s a crazy statement you can make with your username. Were you trolling?

[@bw3803]

It is not 'the' government. The military is run by the federal government and this micromanaged minium wage tier is from California government. Two different ones.

[@iamhenrydpacheco]

Hooah brother, hooah

[@michaeldover]

@@welfare_baybee Did you ever have a real male father....or were you just spawned from a dishrag?

[@Nobody-vr5nl]

I much prefer working in construction than working fast food. Not just because of the pay, but also ppl suck. U get to see the worst in ppl working food or retail.

[@tommurphy4307]

but construction workers ARE MODEL CITIZENS, right??

[@boneapart2250]

The saddest part about ModPizza is that they employ handicapped/disabled people. So they had to lay off people who already found it hard to find jobs.

[@nopenope3678]

yeah thats suck because some people didnt vote for this and others paying for other careless voting

[@MissRora]

@@nopenope3678 Present day California in a nutshell.

[@RIbigDave]

Liberals don't concern themselves with the obvious and quite foreseeable unintended consequences of their actions.

[@Msfeathers7]

Newsom doesn't care. Like most in government he is out for himself only.

[@FEDEXLuchs]

@@Msfeathers7 but californians litereally voted for this its so easy to point out X gov person bad when the voter base is just as guilty XD

[@Sassarai916]

When fast food costs more than going to a nice restaurant.

[@animejanai4657]

Restaurants will price their food higher due to lacking price competition from fast food places no longer being cheaper places to eat. Without the price competition, regular restaurants will be tempted to raise their prices to what the market will Bear. California state bear that is.

[@Juan-os4hs]

Both Applebee's 🍎 & Red Lobsters 🦞 are running specials that are cheaper than a Big Mac Combo from McDonald's.

[@tommurphy4307]

@@Juan-os4hs applebee's food sucks and you already know what mickey d's crap is like....

[@edwardkendall1540]

As a manager and an former owner of a company. You don't inform employees of closings because your employees will either stop showing up for their shift or a small percentage will actually start breaking stuff because they are upset.

[@jimmydaddo9357]

You should still be up-front about that. If they stop showing up no big you're closing anyway. I do however don't support vandalism

[@jjthefed]

That's 41,600/yr. I was making 39,000/yr. as an intern back in 2002 and I was barely scraping by. At least I had no car payment or student loans and was renting a room from Dad for $100/month. I was socking money away for a down payment on a house. Fast forward 21 years, 41k a year ain't sheet in Cali! At least my 39k was in the DMV and inflation wasn't that bad back then.

[@RS-ls7mm]

You are complaining when you make more than doctors make in the rest of the world. That's a sign of a society very decoupled from reality.

[@tommurphy4307]

you could get a camper to live in

[@JohnQPublic345]

California 2053: i may quit my job as a pharmacist, to flip burgers... pays better

[@Kimtomaska]

This is already happening. Pay is so low for so many positions- including those which require government licenses and specific levels of higher education…. In San Diego the offering rate for licensed family therapists is starting at $25-$30 per hour. The government is narrowing the gap which is insane…. And this is all part of their sick little plan

[@IamKingSleezy]

@@Kimtomaskajust inching closer to that communist utopia they want so badly

[@Juan-os4hs]

Before the collapse of the USSR, a nuclear physicists made the same amount as a janitor at the laboratory.

[@aicofrena505]

First off I live in the San Diego area and San Diego is a weak place for business it always has been it's a week place for organizing it always has been it's a weak place for unions it always has been San Diego's pay rate will always be low and no offense but because it's a military city I've learned this from experience watching my wife trying to negotiate a deal she was successful and I was very proud of her because she's singular barking her way up but most people get out of the military they become part of the workforce and they obey they do not bargain for what should be theirs because they see fit to obey their boss at all cost so from what I've learned and what I seen folks in San Diego are very very weak

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

@@Kimtomaska "this is already happening" - really? Tell me you don't work without telling me you don't work.

[@dungeonkeeper42]

"Should the government..." No.

[@phoenix5054]

Be defunded?

[@ReptilesPwnRodents]

Be gutted like what Javier Milei has done in Argentina? Afuera!

[@cjmerobot1204]

@@phoenix5054yes

[@Monster003]

The shake machine is still broken every time you pull up. 😂

[@darkdudironaji]

"Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker's productivity worth that amount-and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed." - Thomas Sowell

[@christaylor7079]

As someone who spent a few years working fast food: if you can be replaced by a teenager with a week’s training, you are not doing a job that’s valuable enough to raise a family on. There are predictable consequences to half-assing your way through life with minimal effort; stop trying to make society bear the brunt of your poor decisions

[@MikeMartinez74]

Yeah, well, how about now? Now it pays $20.

[@EsseQuamViderity]

Yeah it’s a transitional job. It’s not a career. Sorry.

[@connernickerson5509]

​@MikeMartinez74 Not for long, jobs are being automated, layoff are rampant, and stores are closing. Soon no one save a handful of managers will make that much.

[@EsseQuamViderity]

@@MikeMartinez74yeah and the hard working people have to pay for their lack of gumption.

[@christaylor7079]

@@MikeMartinez74 only because of heavy-handed policies implemented by people who never look beyond the next election cycle and are wealthy enough to be insulated from the consequences

[@dk-bw4gk]

I have a theory that minimum wage increases are really just easy tax revenue increases. Employers pay almost what the employee is paid in taxes, then the employee is also taxed at the end of the year. Raising min wage is easy money for the state for nothing. I don't recall a politician ever saying, "no, we shouldn't do that" when it comes to more revenue.

[@NormanF62]

If no one is earning money, they don’t contribute to the tax roll. An effective way to decrease revenue. The idiots who vote for economically illiterate policies never consider the trade offs involved. They look at what looks good at election time.

[@jenns1483]

Pretty much. Instead of evaluating their own spending, they just jump straight to raising minimum wage as the first and only solution.

[@mac1bc]

Except raising prices does the opposite of creating more jobs. Taxes are collected best when there are more people working.

[@dk-bw4gk]

@@mac1bc That's always the unexpected consequence they couldn't have possibly predicted even though every one tells them it will happen.

[@christopherconard2831]

A number of unions also support minimum wage increases because the base rate for their members, already earning well over minimum, is tied to the areas minimum wage.

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

Considering all the horrors I've heard around doordash and uber eats, I would NEVER buy from those companies again.

[@nightengalenorth6881]

I stay away from from any and all gig work, not just doordash and uber eats. I used to work via Wag (which marketed itself as Uber but for dog walks!) It was bad when I started and worse when I stopped. I get why exists, but I still very much disagree with it. Its a symptom of a bigger problem that I don't feel like many really see.

[@fredmonroe6042]

I’m a circuit board repair technician. I make 20$ an hour. My company builds space age technology. Go figure 🙄

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

You get paid that because you accepted that. If you would stop accepting such wages, the offered salary would go up

[@ElinWinblad]

I get paid 25 in a very cheap state to live and I have remote job doing logistics but it’s really not that hard vs what I get paid ratio

[@RS-ls7mm]

Or, you find out that $20/hr is more than doctors make in the rest of the world and you realize just how stup!d $20/hr is for unskilled work.

[@momentswithyahya4239]

But really a job is a job. I mean I get what you’re saying But really a job is a job , is a job. Everyone deserves a living wage. Period

[@RS-ls7mm]

@@momentswithyahya4239 And that is what is wrong with the world. Entitled people who think someone owes them money for just existing. No, you have have to earn it.

[@CombativeMedic]

If you're residing in California, and have a family to take care of, but working in fast food...I think it's time to learn a trade.

[@PelosiStockPortfolio]

The ones who got laid off should do that. And the ones that kept their job can hopefully get off food stamps now

[@Stevarooni]

There's no tradesman who's going to pay a ton for unskilled apprentices, either.

[@tufelhunden5795]

@@Stevarooniof course not. They have to learn but the education helps earn higher wages.

[@RogerWareInc]

@@tufelhunden5795they don’t even wanna do that anymore. For so long I tried to get into an apprenticeship and none would take me because I had no previous experience. But they will gladly hire an undocumented worker because of cheap labor.

[@justinbond558]

@@StevarooniI think that’s the point of learning the trade… 🤔 I could be wrong, but that knowledge helps to bring the skills available to become an apprentice.

[@AdamKlownzinger]

There is fundamentally no reason why somebody who thinks the minimum wage should artificially be raised to $15 should not believe it should be raised to $30, $50, or $100.

[@jennymelo2098]

Exactly what I say. They think it's just magic. I've asked one person that was a huge supporter of 20 dollar minimum wage, why stop at 20? Why not just go all the way and make EVERYONE a millionaire. 1 million dollars per hour minimum wage. The response was, that's dumb. Mine was, EXACTLY.

[@MikeMartinez74]

That's true, but if we artificially set it to fifty cents, we'd have the same problem that we have now, wherein it is not sufficient to entice someone to work. You can complain about minimum wage laws all you want, but the market sets the wage, not the law.

[@genericprotagonist2842]

To be fair, there is a line; $12 is whatever, $15 is pushing it but possible only insofar as you accomplish it by creating different issues, $30 is literally impossible.

[@AdamKlownzinger]

@@MikeMartinez74…I’m aware. Nowhere in my comment did I say, “But we should still have a minimum wage, just, like, not this number or that number.” The minimum wage clearly needs to go.

[@Rope_Adope]

They’re working on it. Eventually that $35t debt will only be worth half that

[@valdivia1234567]

These jobs were never intended to be jobs to support a family. These jobs were always to be used as stepping stones to better-paying jobs. Too many people lack ambition.

[@roythousand13]

Exactly!

[@j.edward4379]

BTW, keep up the good work, "Actual Justice Warrior!" Your saying all the right things. TRUTH!

[@InternetTAB]

Horrible? Yes. Hilarious? Absolutely. People told them what would happen.

[@Stevarooni]

Unfortunately, when California sneezes our federal government catches cold.

[@richland1980]

They not only knew this would happen, they were counting on it.

[@hegemonycricket2182]

Panera sucks. Its like re-heated airport food.

[@tommurphy4307]

i won't even go into that cattle-call.

[@TheGumbyRules]

$20 minimum wage means fewer jobs, more customers having to punch in food orders on kiosks, with only 3 people working instead of the usual 10.

[@markfixitright]

And, guess what? Those employees that get the 20 dollar an hour increase will find that they too have to fork out more money to buy food. It's a shell game to fool those that know not how economics work.

[@Wordgoblin]

The people who advocate for increases in minimum wage don't care about the worker's pay. What they're after is for the owners/CEOs/etc of the company to make less money. They expect that the people in charge sacrifice their wages to make up the difference instead of the consumers.

[@jacquelineking5783]

In other words they are idiots.

[@holyomega3093]

And they are so bad at it. The only way for management to make less money is to tie their income to the least paid employee. ie CEO can't make X amount more than the lowest paid guy in the company base on the size of the company and corporate can't pay out more than X portion of profit to investors based on size of company. The more they push minimum wage the more people they brought down to poverty line. Skilled positions starts to lose staff. Many places can't afford a raise because their income are tied to government programs. The only way is to cut staff and put patient in danger.

[@ChrisLee66]

In a real world yes.

[@animejanai4657]

@@holyomega3093 Would AMD been able to hire Dr Lisa Su to be their CEO with such a compensation program? Anyways, corporations would get out of the CEO employee problem by hiring a figurehead CEO and then contracting with a Dr Lisa Su's LLC to provide "CEO Consulting Services" for many millions per year. Thus, Dr Su gets compensated and the democrat law is satisfied with a CEO making no more than 10X the wage of the lowest-paid employee.

[@jmmywyf4lyf]

Most people don't think that far ahead.. A person may be smart, but people are irrational and stupid!

[@Frag-ile]

If your argument for minimum wage is that the top execs makes too much money, maybe you should be talking about a maximum wage limit instead. See how well that goes down at the legislative branch.

[@Stevarooni]

Imagine if they passed it. Our nation would lose corporations in a hurry.

[@znail4675]

Personally I like the idea of a max salary as a multiplier of the minimum salary the company pays. Too bad that it's likely too easy to get around that limit.

[@linusgustafsson2629]

I think it should be done on some positions, like politicians. A politician should never really earn more than a teacher, if you ask me. At which point they either have to give teachers millions, or lower their own salaries. Lawyers should probably also have max salaries, to keep their insane pricing down. Or at least police should earn the same, to see how much the state is willing to pay police.

[@FeyNoel]

Fast food jobs are supposed to be for kids in high school to earn money and start getting used to the work life. Then they move on to adult jobs, fast food jobs weren't meant to be where you stayed you're whole life. Which is why they didn't pay a living wage, they didn't need to while still living at home with mom and dad.

[@Prence]

They were warned, they ignored the warnings and now the bill has come due.

[@julianbruce7595]

If I''m a fast food place I'm immediately going to start baking my own bread. Seems like the loophole to exploit to get out of this BS law.

[@Stevarooni]

The law requires that you were doing the bread thing prior to the date the law passed.

[@hohenzollern6025]

Good luck getting any employees, who are all going to feel they deserve the twenty. Why work for you when Mikky D's will pay them more? I can tell you didnt think this thru.

[@chasechampagne867]

right .. does Subway not count as fast food ?

[@Stevarooni]

@@chasechampagne867 They don't sell Just Bread as part of their normal menu...and yeah, they're fast food.

[@Stevarooni]

@@hohenzollern6025 Good luck getting a $20/hr job when fast food restaurants drop employees like they're radioactive.

[@Anon1mous]

My 16 year old son works part time at McDonald’s. When the wage was $16 an hr, he was getting about 10-15 hours a week. When the $20 hr raise came, his hours went down to 6-10 a week! All new hiring has also stopped. He is now looking to maybe quit and find another job where he can get more hours or get a second job to make up the lost hrs. Needless to say when he turns 18 and can vote, he will not be voting D like so many others his age. He has seen the light.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

Not bad. Almost makes the same for way less hours. Could easily get a second job and make more for the same amount of time.

[@mryorkielover]

@@TheMysteryDriver I can tell you are a clown who has never had to work a 2nd job. Good luck trying to coordinate your hours between 2 jobs. Almost impossible. But you wouldn't know that because you are too busy talking out your azz

[@user-dt3sq7rw3b]

​@@TheMysteryDriveruntill the resturant closes, That -16% earnings report today wasn't a confidence builder

[@Juan-os4hs]

At $16/hr he was making a minimum of $160, to $240 per week. After the $20/hr raise he was making a minimum of $120 to a maximum of $200 per week. 🤔 Good job Democrats.

[@themachine9366]

@@TheMysteryDriver Could easily get a job… while he lost half of his hours in a business which already trained him and invested in him… and now he has to incur in the extra costs of finding another job and traveling to that different job in this case he holds two jobs to make the same. Ridiculous

[@th3n3wk1dd]

Nothing annoys me more when someone compares wages of an employee to the CEO's salary when those to wages come from TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SOURCES. The CEO's salary is not contingent on the overhead of a given store and it's revenue directly. Meaning a store does not need to budget for the CEO's salary when paying rent, paying bills, buying consumables and yes, the labor all goes into the budget and if a store is not profitable, EVERYONE loses their job. At no point does the store manager have to go "well we are paying part of our budget to the CEO so if the CEO takes a pay cut, we can raise our employee wages". NOT how CEO salary works... I already know someone is economically illiterate if they compare a CEO's salary to the hourly salary of the employees of the store.

[@TheLotw]

Also now why would someone want to be a nurse, fire fighter, cop, teacher, etc when Fast Food pays more.

[@WhatIThink45]

Uhh, where I live in California, teachers are making six figure incomes. Their salaries are posted online. I just l looked it up: nurses in California make on average close to $60/hr, which is also a six figure income.

[@TheLotw]

@@WhatIThink45 That is only true near a major city like LA, San Fran, San Diego, etc. Go to smaller places and they make dirt.

[@WhatIThink45]

@@TheLotw , I can agree with that. But hey that’s the contradictions of wages in a capitalist system. If ppl are not paid a salary that meets cost of living and profit demands, then it causes all sorts of problems, including debt, wage inequality, and a dependency on government subsidies. Why is this happening in a multi-trillion dollar economy?

[@TheLotw]

@@WhatIThink45 Because government gets involved on the wrong issue. Minimum wage never works, all it does it keep you broke. As wage goes up so do prices, so you are still broke. As CEOs get paid more and more over the average employee prices go up. If you look at 99% of all companies finances most of their money they spent are on 1% of the employees (which are the CEO, CFO, etc). To pay them those wages they keep workers pay down, benifits down, and raise prices. We all pay for the high ups that DONT REALLY DO ANYTHING.

[@WhatIThink45]

@@TheLotw , there are several factors that influence price increases including pursuit of increase corporate profits, supply chain shortages, increases in energy and food prices can impact prices in order areas of the economy. Before 2021, service worker pay was well behind the costs of living. Reports say wages for average workers have increased like 19% while consumer prices have increased by 18%, but those increases are not all influenced by wage inflation. Also, there’s little evidence that wage inflation reduces consumer demand mainly because increased wages can mean in an increase in consumer spending. Average workers don’t hoard money like rich people do. If you’re arguing that there be no wage increases and no price increases, then you’re talking about a different economic system, right?

[@I-di-nt-do-nuff-in-]

I want reparations from when I used to work at McDonald’s in high school and only got $7.25

[@sebastiend.5335]

Not unless you are black;)

[@cassady7169]

You do realize that in 20 states in the US, people are still paid $7.25 an hour?

[@stevenperry5592]

@@cassady71697.25 is very different depending upon which state you live in and the cost of living. Again…. Clueless

[@tmapes1989]

I only got $2.35 then $3.25, then $4.15 in the '80s!!! I want my wife's student loans (That she paid off) refunded too!!!

[@cassady7169]

@@tmapes1989 The minimum wage in 1981 was $3.35 and the average cost of rent was $243 per month. This means that someone earning the minimum wage needed to work 72 hours per month to be able to afford rent. The average cost of tuition was $743 per year for in state, or 221 hours needed to work per year to pay for school. Today, the average rent is $1400 dollars per month and the average cost of tuition is $11,260 for in state which is 193 hours per month and 1533 hours per year respectively. Cry more, boomer.

[@Stimy42069]

Farmer boys French toast plate = 15 bucks. Same plate from a hole in the wall diner = 8.81 Just find some non franchised food places that haven't jacked up their prices and support them instead.

[@Dulcimertunes]

But don’t they have to pay their employees $20/hour?

[@briantbmoth6472]

@@Dulcimertunesno because they aren’t part of a large chain

[@chrlpolk]

Buy your own eggs and bread and spend 5 minutes to make French toast: 7 bucks for 3 days of breakfast.

[@qweeknee4208]

Casino's have good food.

[@seaklos]

As an Econ undergrad, I just don't get minimum wage at all. Short-term, you have a small amount of people who benefit and another small amount who lose their jobs. But long-term, you either have these companies finding ways to get rid of workers altogether, or you caused enough inflation that you ... have to raise minimum wage again. It does nothing at best and reduces workers at worst and if it helps, it's such a short-term assistance as not to matter especially as a policy that affects millions of people.

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

Well, it's pretty simple: Minimum Wage = the minimum amount to survive on your own with no help. If you can afford an apartment, then that's the minimum. The fact that prices of everything keep raising is about the government causing inflation. You want to reduce prices? Stop giving hundreds of billions to foreign countries to shoot each other. That would really help

[@itsnoterica]

The messed up thing is you shouldn’t have to be studying economics in university to understand why this minimum wage raise is a horrible move. This is an extremely basic concept that was taught at my HS Econ class during my sophomore year. Basic Econ should be taught in all HS so ppl don’t fall for these stupid policies

[@Jell0zz]

It's a balance, no minimum wage or an insufficient wage to make ends meet is harmful also, but should lead to people looking for better employment and those "bad" positions being hard to fill. A minimum wage that's (too) high will lead to increase of prices, because of the wish/need for profits in a capitalistic system. But it also gives the economy a boost at the cost of business owners, since their customers will have more expendable funds. I believe the minimum wage should at least keep up with inflation, so a 33% increase since the COVID printing started isn't that strange. Look how the M1 supply has been inflated.

[@raylone13]

so your saying it fine to exploit ignorance of worth to work but it WRONG to force a bare MINIMUM cost to pay? let me guess when you finish school any job you get WILL surpass what MINIMUM wage will pay? problem by double or more...... yea let listen to the guy who WON'T be making MINIMUM wage tell us what best.

[@woodsghost9088]

It's about leveraging low information voters with short visual horizons to gain power.

[@JonGorman]

I don't understand how Pizza Hut selling Bread Sticks doesn't exempt them from the new law?

[@tommurphy4307]

breadsticks are not a stand-alone sale item. nice try, though....

[@richverd7467]

This subject is the one that gets me the most heated with the lies and dishonesty. I live in Washington state and several years ago they wanted to hike minimum wage up too 15$/hour. Then and current governor Jay Insleee paid Washington State University to do a study on the potential consequences of such a high increase. WSU provided a study saying what most other studies said about this, that it would inevitably hurt many people by losing jobs or getting hours cut. Inslee didn't like the answer he got and promptly threw it away and commissioned another study from Evergreen College because he knew the hippies and communists there would give him the answers he wanted. He spent tens of thousands if not over a hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money to get the narrative he wanted. You can just take a guess at which study had more accurate predictions.

[@stevenperry5592]

Ya I remember that. I thought it was the city of Seattle specifically

[@englishpayerofgermantaxes8186]

@rich Yes, the dishonesty is one of the worst aspects of modern politics. The problem is that leftism is always predicated on not thinking policies through, and on not accepting reality like the relationship between supply and demand.

[@kathyyoung1774]

If someone can learn your job in a day, you have NO MARKETABLE SKILLS, and you don’t deserve $16. Get more training or education so you WILL BE WORTH MORE.

[@georgesakellaropoulos8162]

I hear Evergreen isn't doing so well these days.

[@Trashman_Len]

Ngl I half expect Gavin to implement a law like: “You must pay x1000 taxes unless you are the governor or friends of the governor.”

[@theparodychannel7842]

Thats the panera bakery loophole for ya!

[@Dulcimertunes]

He would if he could

[@SoMuchFacepalm]

Prince John tax policy be like.

[@tommurphy4307]

DON'T TALK THAT WAY ABOUT YOUR FUTURE PRESIDENT

[@Bobcat_That_Aint_Bubsy]

These American fast food workers get paid more than I do as a retail worker by a considerable degree.

[@j.edward4379]

Minimum wage was ALWAYS a entry level wage. Insulting that a new employee gets paid the same as someone who has worked at the business for a year and learned the business.

[@KaiserFaust]

If debt doesn’t matter and inflation isn’t tied to monetary supply then why don’t we just print infinity dollars and give everyone infinity dollars per hour?

[@LunarLocust]

It worked for Zimbabwe

[@jakeforrest]

And Germany in the 1920’ties

[@OhNotThat]

Wow thats crazy, i didn't know mcdonalds literally printed cash to pay it's employees. The more you know....

[@AshleyWilliamsN7]

Seriously, why aren't all the 3rd world countries in Africa just printing million dollar bills and giving them out to everyone. A country consisting fully of millionaires! Oh wait, they actually did that...

[@wyattearp4475]

Because we would need an infinite # of wheel barrows to push cash around with us. lol

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

The other thing to consider is if you give a company a reason to raise prices they will not only take it, they will increase it as much as possible and never lower it. No matter if it's a temporary problem like a rise in gas prices or a shortage. The company will raise the price, and keep it there after the problem goes away. If you tell a company they can raise the prices due to worker wage increase they won't raise it to just cover the new cost. They will try to use it as an excuse to make even more profit.

[@ShadowRulah]

It's called the ratchet effect and it's the same thing that happens with taxes and special powers.

[@stevenperry5592]

Ya that’s not true. If profits increase it attracts competition. If what you are saying was true real wages would never go up with increases in technology.

[@chrlpolk]

@stevenperry5592 The exact opposite of that. The competition is raising their price, too, for the same reason.

[@stevenperry5592]

@@chrlpolk no it isn’t. Think about it logically. Competitors are competing over customers. That doesn’t cause price increases.

[@Bopperann]

We told them it was unsustainable. They called us bigots.

[@OddOtter707]

Local small businesses are getting shut down more than Big Businesses in my town.

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

All part of the plan. Its easier for governments to work with a few large businesses than it is for them to get after several hundred small ones. Who do you think will have an easier time covering minimum wage increases, a small business that has all the business debt to make up for, or the one who already has the debt paid off and has money on the side?

[@charlescannon2469]

My mind always goes straight to "What is wrong with your area" not "lazy teenagers are greedy" when I hear our minimum wage needs to be double or triple the national average.

[@tufelhunden5795]

The minimum wage should be zero. Every time it’s been raised the static unemployment rate has gone up.

[@mr.mereis3728]

So I'm assuming you would be fine with McDonalds paying their employees with McBucks which can be used exclusively at McDonalds since there shouldn't be a minimum amount of US currency they have to pay​@@tufelhunden5795

[@Mastercane98]

@@tufelhunden5795 It's only 0 in countries with a strong welfare system. Apart for the us, no other government can be seen as legittimate if so many of its people are living in absolute poverty.

[@tufelhunden5795]

@@Mastercane98 if we closed our borders it would be no where near zero. The strong welfare system is why we have illegals coming.

[@Galfrid]

You mean corporations won't take any hits to profits? Say it ain't so! 🤣🤣🤣 4 people were making a little money, but now 2 people are making better money. It happens every time they do this

[@bobjacobson858]

I recall some 43 or so years ago that there was a shortage of peanut butter, although I don't recall the circumstances that led to this shortage. However, I happened to know an economics professor at Penn State Univ., and he told me that in spite of how much he and his colleagues teach the laws of supply and demand, people still seem "shocked" when increase during a shortage. My thought is that at least some people expect "the government" to find a way to intervene to prevent prices from going up!

[@buildingracingvideos4714]

You'd think they would lower minimum wage since everything in California costs free.

[@Dulcimertunes]

Only to illegals

[@aimsays]

🤣

[@jimmmay420]

Free 99 baby!!!

[@chrlpolk]

Not free for citizens

[@xeridea]

@@chrlpolk Free for criminals

[@nobodyimportant5417]

When the mcdonalds smells more like shitty weed than fries, its time to reevaluate this whole "people" thing.

[@cassady7169]

Lol so people who work minimum wage jobs aren’t people now? You “people” have become insane.

[@WhatsUpLand]

One of the consequences of accelerated automation is that it will be deployed nationwide, causing a loss of jobs not only in CA, but across the nation. The unanticipated positive is that fast food costs will be contained so that the people who loose their jobs to the automation will be better able to afford a meal from their former employer while collecting unemployment.

[@tommurphy4307]

gee, maybe the outside-of-california businesses might take it and run to give you better service and products, but youre too narrow-minded to see that side of it.....

[@WhatsUpLand]

@@tommurphy4307 your comments starts good but then ends with a poor conclusion.

[@wunder4402]

If minimum wage raises fail, it's not the fault of the raise, it's the fault of the corporation.

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

In my State of New Hampshire the minimum wage is $7.25, the same as the Federal minimum wage. NO ONE is being paid even close to minimum wage. Dunkin Donuts, McD’s, etc. ALL are hiring at $15/hr+ = THE MARKET.

[@darkphoenix199408]

Same in the state I live. Every thing is cheaper and more affordable. I am from California so I know how big of a difference between two places are. It is one of the reasons I left California.

[@jacobp.2024]

Consider this: the move for many states to a higher minimum wage.. *Might be putting pressure on the market to raise it to $15.* No one's going to work for 7.25 anymore, either. They can't, that won't pay bills. It'd be a waste of time.

[@SteveGrin]

The problem with forcing "a living wage" that effects a large segment of the population is that it drives prices up across the board and, suddenly, it's no longer a living wage.

[@darkphoenix199408]

Sad thing is minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage.

[@adamtr1026]

There needs to be a focus on making sure people can always access a bed and basic food so there isn't the pressure on home prices. If you can access an alternative to market housing they can't just pass on prices

[@SteveGrin]

@@adamtr1026 What's the incentive to make money then? If everyone can get "the basics" without putting out any extra effort then no one, but the very wealthy, get something worth having. The rest of us get crap. That's socialism. No thanks.

[@justinkarvelot3381]

The minimum wage was supposed to be a basic pay level for teens or those just entering the workforce. It was never intended to live off of.

[@derrickbyrd6042]

You guys are wrong. Minimum wage WAS suppose to be lived off of. Over the years it never kept up. Companies=greed. Minimum wage would be $20+ right now if it "stayed" caught up over the years. Do your research.

[@dingytv538]

Its funny... I use to have a guilty urge to go to McD every now and then.. then a few months ago I went in for a Big Mac Meal... AND IT WAS $18...???? I have and will never go away..

[@user-cb3qr9dt2k]

I haven't been to a single fast food store for about 15 years. That was about the same time I removed cable TV from my life.

[@tommurphy4307]

i go to grocery stores nearly every day- thanks for paying your taxes.

[@user-cb3qr9dt2k]

@@tommurphy4307 Sorry I meant fast food. I fixed it.

[@MaggiePies]

Magic spoon is disgusting and over priced 😭!!

[@jujubees5855]

People can't afford fast food, much less gimmick cereal.

[@revdarian]

The art alone is Cal Arts trash

[@r3tr0nic]

*Hears advert blah blah about to come *clicks further on timeline a bit - nope not done yet *clicks 30 seconds even further - dang, still blabbing on about this rubbish? *clicks near 3 min mark - dang! like 2 minutes of blabbing shill

[@kevins4213]

It's the chicory root.

[@iggi3985]

You want to put more money in peoples pockets, you start from the top, you reduce govt spending by making the govt more accountable for the money and you reduce taxes. Paying people more just makes the cost of living more for everyone

[@JamesEnriquez-dt5xg]

Californians voted for Gov. Newsom. Now look what you got.

[@JustaSimplefact]

Chipotle employees can have a raise as soon as they finish cleaning their food line for the first time.

[@tommurphy4307]

or agree to stop poisoning people (1,100 strong).

[@DrSoKo.]

My co worker just said she doesn’t know why they don’t raise the minimum wage due to how much inflation has happened recently. People are so ignorant on how the world and the economy actually works it’s crazy lol.

[@Stevarooni]

Some people don't understand that the economy wasn't set up from the beginning by governments.

[@ElinWinblad]

People got to learn at their own pace. There’s tons of people out there that still don’t understand that the stimulus paychecks and the printing of the money during Covid messed us up also.

[@tommurphy4307]

see- now youre touching on one of the biden administration's best-kept secrets....

[@MrCookieCat]

Scene from 'Inside Out' popped in my head. "Congratulations San Francisco, you ruined pizza."

[@richthetrashpicker-upper5244]

Every fast food Restaurant I walk into. There's a sign at the cash register saying need help $20 an hour. A lot of these places still can't get enough help. I deliver food. I'm in these restaurants every day.

[@tommurphy4307]

theyre looking for workers who AREN'T AFRAID OF A LITTLE WORK.

[@razziade]

This is where fast food joints start weeding out the useless baggage .

[@dcpunisher4781]

And no doubt the time that all the Black liabilities are reading up their "It's becuz I'm Black!" argument and all the White Lefty liabilities to ready up their "It's because I'm diverse/poly-gendered/Cat-Lady Hybrid excuses."

[@middleguy1776]

No this is where job experience disappears for young people.

[@Stevarooni]

​@@middleguy1776No, you're both saying the same thing.

[@middleguy1776]

@@Stevarooni a 16 year old in their first job isn't useless. A 40 year old working fast food as a career is

[@mikeEshroom]

We need to go back to no minimum wage! If the business does not pay enough, no one will work for them!

[@OwenHooper-mv4fm]

Absolutely effing not. We have 10 million+ illegals willing to work for dirt. The Democrats have massively screwed everything

[@middleguy1776]

Exactly

[@cassady7169]

So why does anyone work for the minimum wage now? It’s not enough to live anywhere in the country, yet over a million people work for the federal minimum.

[@middleguy1776]

@@cassady7169 because they have minimal skills. Minimum wage was never supposed to be a career it's a starting point hence the word minimum.

[@stevenperry5592]

@@cassady7169because they lack the skills to work for a higher wage, or they don’t want to work for more because they will lose welfare benefits or their social security will become taxable if they earn more then the amount exempted. You really don’t know much do you?

[@agustingonzalez3878]

When I was a kid, there were no fast food restaurants. You walked in and were seated by waitstaff at a table. Without asking, without charge, you got a glass of water in a real glass, real metal flatware, china plates, and a napkin. At Mexican restaurants you also got tortilla chips and salsa. At Italian restaurants you either got breadsticks or soda crackers. At Chinese restaurants you got fortune cookies. At just about any other place you'd at least get soda crackers. Now, you get plastic sporks, paper plates, if any, and plastic cups. You have to pay for water and you have to ask for it. Tips have gone from an optional 10% which was paid for good service to a mandatory 20% tacked automatically onto the bill - and it's called a gratuity! When tipping went up, customers were told it was because the cost of living went up. No one explained why the percentage went up even though the 10% tip increased whenever the cost of the food went up. Ten percent of a $20 check is going to be more than ten percent of a $10 check. Raising the percentage was actually the inflationary part although no one saw that. In any case the consumer has had enough. We're paying too much for bad tasting, hastily prepared, factory food. I rarely eat out anymore. I cook almost all my own meals. I have a better idea of what's in my food, and it's cooked the way I like it.

[@user-th3bo2yp1t]

Bringing people receiving wages to a minimum, just as promised.

[@rodx5571]

I am in Texas, Mc Donalds is cheaper here, at a 1$ increase in the cost of a big mac meal has caused me to STOP eating there entirely. I would never eat at Commiefornia prices.

[@tommurphy4307]

mcdonald's sounds about right for you.

[@damienyuen7718]

I have to laugh at California. Born and raised in LA. After 42 years I didn't just leave California but America for good. Happily now in Malaysia where it's modern, safe, people are nice, happy and life is cheap. Get out while you still can if you can.

[@zcorpalpha2462]

Yearly income for that area ?

[@Brittanybeautician]

The part that annoys me is everywhere I go that involves getting food the workers are always rude and don’t smile, this new generation is the worst

[@hyperreal]

I get plenty of smiles just depends on where you go and when

[@Subject_Keter]

People like op are the worst, you can smell the rudeness.

[@kenneth9874]

​@@hyperrealyou're confusing smiles with people laughing at you...

[@cassady7169]

That’s because they are tired of dealing with entitled see you next tuesdays like you.

[@hyperreal]

@@kenneth9874 i see why people are rude to you 😂

[@JakeKoenig]

People who think the minimum wage should be raised don’t understand basic economics. If you raise the minimum wage, it increases EVERYBODY’s taxes, and then the prices of EVERYTHING will be raised also. Goods and services, rent, aforementioned taxes, insurance rates, medical care, everything. And the cost-of-living increase will end up being higher than the minimum wage increase, so the people who make minimum wage will end up poorer than before, and everyone else will be a LOT poorer than before. Everybody loses, except for the people in power. Economics 101.

[@hellooutthere8956]

In a nation ran by corporations. In a fair society you want fair wage and work enviornment. In a corporation owned country GREED is the order of the day. Companies have a high profit margin whereas back in the 50s and 60s corporations were limited in profit margin and they do this in denmark. Also CEOs make 300% pay increase compared to regular workers. No one deserves to make that much. NO ONE.

[@gotafarmyet4691]

Well you are correct it is a 2% increase in income tax, it also puts them above the income limits that allow them things like food stamps, Rent assistance. Then with the cost increase the 10% sales tax eats a larger amount. It pretty much is having the opposite effect, you end up with less disposable income.

[@stinkfinga4918]

You're right, just let prices keep rising exponentially. Just gotta work harder!

[@cassady7169]

Exactly! Ignore that people fought for a living wage in the 30’s, think of the corporate profits!

[@jesusofbullets]

Minimum wage should be raised to REASONABLE levels depending on the price of the area and cost of living. Let’s face it. 7.25 an hour as federal minimum wage is tantamount to slavery, but depending on where you are, even 14 an hour may not be enough to simply pay rent. If we could lower the cost of living then we wouldn’t need to raise minimum wage, but there isn’t much of a way to lower the cost of living.

[@niteloon6073]

Yep we don't eat out anymore!!!! Used to be once a week before we went grocery shopping.

[@Trid3nt861]

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. " - *Ronald Regan*

[@thesurlygamer6933]

It's almost like no one in the California legislature knows anything about the economic principles of supply and demand.

[@RS-ls7mm]

Sure they do, they demand you supply them with money to line their pockets.

[@dk-bw4gk]

I used to listen to Tom Sullivan back when he was in Sacramento, like 15-20 years ago. He would have the CEO of Carl's jr on every once in a while. He explained that they were a charity for young people who also sold food. He believed in getting kids started in the job market and giving them something to put on their resume. Automation always came up and he would say something like, "Yes, we could automate today, and it would be cheaper, and the shareholders are always pushing for it, but I'm here to help kids first. If they keep raising wages or costs on me, I'll have no choice".

[@justicedunham4088]

Businesses should tell their employees who’s getting fired if a minimum wage increase happens. They deserve the transparency and it tells them what their actual best interest is at the polls.