Meet "McCashier" Your $15.00 Per Hour McDonald's Worker Replacement
Aug 10, 2014 13:20:31 #
jkoar wrote:
Please elaborate. What does the ability to pay for college by working at minimum wage during the summer have to do with automated cashiers? I'm sure you have a very good point to make ... I just can't tease it out from your glib comment. :)
Covering tuition by no means covers the cost of college. Board and room will double that cost, and book will add to that cost as well.
Aug 10, 2014 16:10:25 #
Shutterbugsailer wrote:
Of maybe they should have split the difference and raised the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour
It's already $10.66.
Emmett Watson was right.
Aug 10, 2014 16:31:22 #
Toolking wrote:
It's already $10.66.
Emmett Watson was right.
Emmett Watson was right.
No. Throughout all of private industry the minimum wage is $7.50
Aug 10, 2014 20:16:02 #
boberic wrote:
No. Throughout all of private industry the minimum wage is $7.50
That is the federal wage but states are allowed to have their own. The Washington State minimum is 9.32 the Seattle minimum is 10.00+ soon to be 15.00.
Aug 10, 2014 20:29:11 #
nakkh wrote:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/aug/08/facebook-posts/1978-someone-minimum-wage-could-earn-enough-summer/
You don't understand history.
You don't understand history.
Colleges are getting away with murder... wonder why that is.
1978 min wage adjusted for inflation would be $9.94 today... Certainly not enough to pay for a years tuition at even a crappy university today....
Check it out for yourself on an inflation calculator.
Value of a dollar. Calculates inflation to see what a US dollar was worth in the past and today. View historical and today's current inflation rates, using the CPI provided by the United States government.
http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=11000&year=1978
Aug 10, 2014 20:44:47 #
Frank T wrote:
Ah yes, there are no limits to corporate greed. ... (show quote)
Lets be clear, it was the federal government who sold out the American worker and continues to do so. As much as I may have hopes for free trade that is not what we have with the trade agreements that have been made and supported by both political parties... for instance, China is allowed to impose duties on imports from the US because they are still a developing economy while we don't impose any duties on them as they steal our technology.... when you have the disparity in labor costs that exists between a labor market like the US labor market and the labor costs of emerging economies where people work for a mere fraction of the cost that Americans work for of course we will lose jobs with free trade agreements unless we develop demand for the goods and services that we are producing in America in those markets.... That has certainly not at all been the case, we exported our production, so how the hell are we supposed to sell into those markets? It would be nice if we could begin to produce in the US again but that's not happening under the current environment, especially with the powers that be demonizing business at every turn....
It is funny that dems want to fight over the freakin min wage as if that is all that is left in the future of Americans instead of coming up with the substantial governmental and regulatory reform that will push our economy forward bring back growth and opportunity.... Why the hell would anyone want to fight about the min wage, is our future really that bleak that we will expect productive adults to spend long periods of their careers working at or near min wage? Is that all that is left for America? Yes, it should be nearer $10 an hour but so what! It is not nor never should be considered a living wage, it is entry level and if government would get the puck out of the way and stop spending company profits on forced compliance plans such as the ACA and Carbon Taxes, and all other kinds of compliance and regulatory issues, we might see growth, innovation, and high paying jobs return to our economy... It is by no accident that the middle class is losing ground, there is definite cause and effect at work here.
Aug 10, 2014 21:42:08 #
NeilL wrote:
If machines like this replace a huge chunk of the workforce, this would create a tremendous unemployment problem. Unemployed people cannot afford to buy hamburgers. How is McD going to pay for those machines?
:thumbup:
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