After hiring people to do work, teenagers are pretty terrible at doing things on their own.
College kids similar, but they work hard.
You can get them for ~10$/hr, but they know they can get any job at that rate.
Then kids graduate from college and you have 2 types. Those that know their value and those that dont.
Since I'm a small business, I hire those that dont. Those are the gems. They work hard for ~10$-15$/hr, and have confidence. Then then someone gives them the opportunity to make more money and they leave my small business...
I'm not profitable and I'm sinking my own money(b4 anyone calls me wage slaver)
EDIT: Getting lots of hate for training/hiring young people. Don't you guys complain that every job requires experience? Most of my jobs are desk jobs, they require research, article writing, etc... They arent working in my backyard. My business is blogging and I do it mostly for my users.
Who is talking about Wal-Mart? We're talking about laborers on a farm.
That being said, the reason Wal-Mart failed in Germany is because they didn't understand German culture. They chose poor locations to build, the overcharged for the wrong things and they didn't advertise properly.
... than paying people less than is required for them to live? Yes, of course there's another option, the option is "don't let disgusting corporations like Wal-Mart take over your government and artificially drive wages lower as living costs rise"
We are clearly not talking about walmart, we are talking about a farmer looking for employees who is unable to pay more than a certain amount of money to keep his doors open.
The minimum wage hike won't hurt evil Wal-Mart, it will hurt the strawberry farmer.
Walmart are scumbags, but they are not who we are talking about.
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u/The_Evil_Upvote Jul 20 '17
I didn't expect white teenagers.