Minimum Wage Debate
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If you raise the wages at fast food restaurants too much, you'll start seeing computers taking orders instead of people. 😛
I've seen this happen in New York City already with Burger King. They replaced counters with touch screen computers where you can order, and you just pick it up at the counter. They save time and money with this.
On the ones where I live, you order it on a machine, but there has to be someone to accept the money.
fantanoice
Madly Diligent
They have them at McDonald's here as well. Also there's UberEats and other food apps. Even so paying people less means more money left to put into technology.
Fwiw, minimum wage is too low pretty much everywhere in the world except maybe Scandinavia. It's meant to be the smallest amount you can possibly earn to live comfortably (housing, food, etc). Ie: the minimum wage. As cost of living goes up so should wages but that hasn't happened, particularly in the US. People shouldn't have to work multiple jobs for the poorest living conditions. This should be obvious.
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Bryn
Enforced since recent times, the minimum working wage here is £7.20 an hour, and that all companies were to comply with this new rule. Really because to treat all workers as equal, no matter their role.
They added the cash slot like you see in vending machines here, or of course you can just swipe your card.
The minimum wage is about $15 an hour for most businesses here. Wages should go up, but in this case, you're forcing the businesses' hand and they will look elsewhere on how to save money. 😛
Card accepting area but nothing for cash.
fantanoice
Madly Diligent
Yep, and we get ever closer to the day when technology and automation takes all the jobs and we'll have to give everyone basic income to survive.
Or kill them !!!
But employers might respond by simply cutting jobs, outsourcing to places where the wage is lower.
Minimum wage for any job should be high enough to meet the standard of living based on a full time job (32-40 hrs a week).
Since the minimum standard of living can differ from country to country or state to state (due to taxes etc), minimum wages doesn't have to the same everywhere. A euro, a dollar or a yen shouldn't be worth more based on where you happen to live.
However, based on a full time work week, people should make the basic living standard so they can at least pay their bills and still eat without putting themselves in debt or without a home.
When I worked hospitality, I did not meet this standard while working 50+ hours a week. So, yeah, I feel like those wages should go up. It's ridiculous I worked more than 50 hrs and still struggled to meet months end.
Mind you, my country isn't a tipping country, so it's not like I could've made up the difference that way.
Since the minimum standard of living can differ from country to country or state to state (due to taxes etc), minimum wages doesn't have to the same everywhere. A euro, a dollar or a yen shouldn't be worth more based on where you happen to live.
However, based on a full time work week, people should make the basic living standard so they can at least pay their bills and still eat without putting themselves in debt or without a home.
When I worked hospitality, I did not meet this standard while working 50+ hours a week. So, yeah, I feel like those wages should go up. It's ridiculous I worked more than 50 hrs and still struggled to meet months end.
Mind you, my country isn't a tipping country, so it's not like I could've made up the difference that way.
A big problem I think is people are "business illiterate". In other words, they could do much with their extra income - if only they knew how. For instance, a fast food wage might not be much - but imagine pouring the "little extra savings" into advertising (building a list to sell a product)?
Of course, people hate small incomes when that income cannot lead to the fulfillment of a big dream. In other words, what little is left of nothing (after rent etc.) goes for movie tickets, booze or something.
Of course, people hate small incomes when that income cannot lead to the fulfillment of a big dream. In other words, what little is left of nothing (after rent etc.) goes for movie tickets, booze or something.
The level of inflation in a country determines the amounts of minimum wage of it citizens. The minimum in my country is poor putting the prices of things into considerations. You can hardly survive with it if you do not have multiple jobs.
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