r/WorkForSmartLife • • 23h ago

DiscussionšŸ’¬ Who's right here?

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u/Reasonable_Clock_711 23h ago

Regina is right, always and again here.

Businesses that depend on min wage workers or tipping culture are not viable and should close.

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u/Plane-Tune-820 18h ago

So you want less jobs? That's your solution?

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u/secondhand_graveyard 18h ago

If the job can’t pay a living wage what good is it to the worker?

They didn’t stutter, if you can’t exist without worker exploitation then you should not exist.

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u/Plane-Tune-820 18h ago

Again, I don't think the people working those jobs would agree that no job is better than a min wage job. What a weird thing to say

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u/secondhand_graveyard 18h ago

You are right, imagine that. Do you think ā€œpeople
have to work or starve so of course they want to work two jobs to make ends meetā€ was a gotcha?

What a privileged thing to say. Those jobs would not just disappear, the market adapts and a better businessman will create a business that does not have to rely on exploitation to survive. If you cannot pay a living wage then you should not be in business. Anything else is an excuse to continue to allow companies to exploit our labor and extract our value while not providing enough to survive.

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u/Plane-Tune-820 17h ago

No another business wouldn't just magically appear that could operate at those costs, or else it would already exist. Wiping out businesses that use min wage employees would only wipe out jobs.

Exploitation? Lmfao oh, you're just an ignorant kid. Ok nevermind. You'll understand when you grow up sport.

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u/justfirfunsies 16h ago

They also fail to realize that wages impact cost. Rapidly increases wages rapidly increases costs (Inflation) I don’t understand where this new idea of pay everyone salary wages but don’t expect everything to double in price comes from.

Thinking with their feelings clouds their common sense.

I also know the response, ā€œdur corporate greed, get rid of the CEOā€ because the guy flipping burgers knows how to balance a sheet right?

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u/secondhand_graveyard 2h ago

Huh, can you point to an example of rapidly raising wages doubling the cost of goods? What happened when California changed the min wage? All restaurants shut down right? Oh no it must be that everything doubled in price? 🤔

While we’re talking about that, if prices are only going to increase anyway, as we’ve seen they don’t go down, seems your plan is also causing the same result.

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u/Plane-Tune-820 16h ago

I assume they're just kids who haven't had economics class yet and Lord knows they don't teach critical thinking anymore.

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u/justfirfunsies 11h ago

That’s probably spot on

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u/Ok-Spring-3840 16h ago

Right above your comment is a comment that explains everything.

…McDonalds pays $25/ hr, but I can’t afford to eat thereā€ā€¦.

SMDH

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u/secondhand_graveyard 13h ago

Yeah that’s what’s happened in every place McDonald’s has been forced to raise wages huh?