liberalwithagun wrote:None, well most, of us are not economists and we could argue this for hours. I remember having skilled jobs making $10/hr (making dentures and crowns). I now make significantly more due to my skill increasing, however me making on par to someone at In-and-Out or chipotle shows things are different.
no need to throw around the most unskilled jobs as examples. Something is certainly wrong, however we live in a global economy more now than ever and need to make sure we have the smartest people. there will always be losers.... however there is no need for them to be us lol (my view of economics)
The reason I used the lowest level jobs is because that is the beginning of the chain. It was not meant as a insult.
Here is one fact of economics. The cost we pay for goods and services is directly proportional to the cost of manufacturing or providing those goods and services. Raise the cost of the labor, the price you and I pay goes up with it. Furthermore, if Walmart is forced to pay 12 instead of eight, this in turns means the denture maker person who was making ten, now has to be raised to 15 to keep everything on par. This is a chain that goes right up the ladder of all jobs or occupations, increasing the price of ALL goods and services, thus, canceling that raise you got.
In other words, it will not be an actual raise in the end. But it will convince folks like you to vote with your pocket book due to your lack of real world understanding on basic economics. The democrats feed off enslaving people who think they are owed something in life by offering them freebies.
One other thing you said that deserves mention. Take it from an old guy. Minimum wage has never provided a standard of living. No way in heck would minimum wage even be enough to pay the rent on a small apartment and all the other expenses of having a family. At least not since I was old enough to work.so things are not different from that aspect. What is different is we have a real lazy generation of people that were spoiled rotten by my generation. There seems to be a real sense of self entitlement amongst a lot of under thirty folks. We never expected to be supported by government regulation. We did not mind working and those of us that wanted more out of life worked harder to get it.
Anyways, I've been seeing smashed windows around this neighborhood recently. Seemed to be 3 Black males, but realistically it was dark and they could have been latino or white with gloves, hoodies ect. Wife didn't want me pulling a Zimmerman, so I stayed just watching.... Assuming the police were allowed to do their job here......
