I going to sell pencils on a New York City street corner and since I’m not interested in no minimum wage, no living wage or any of that stuff, I’m going for the “Living Well” wage.
Therefore my pencils will be priced and sold at $100 each and I will sell at least 12 per very short day. I know that sounds like a lot but this is New York City where a guy picking up garbage starts at about 70 grand a year and you need half a million dollars to own a cab.
But why would anyone pay a hundred bucks for a ten cent pencil? New York City will pass a law demanding the first 12 people I approach buy a pencil or face discrimination charges and fines. Cheaper to buy the pencil, cash or credit card. After all, when the fast food joints are put out of business people like me will have to fend for ourselves.
Now don’t think you’re going to brush by me like you didn’t notice me, I got a hidden camera and a hungry lawyer. You will buy.
Who loves ya, baby!
You are what you are worth.....PERIOD!
If you perform a job that requires minimal mental skills and can be replaced in an instant by someone else with the same mental capacity, you are not worth much.
If you use a job that requires minimum mental skills to have the money to improve yourself through education or technical skills, your worth is much greater for a future employer. From there, you can advance your income and living standard greatly and enjoy the life most of us taxpayers currently live.
Unions thrive upon these fools who have no ambition to improve themselves. All that unions want is their dues...nothing more. The higher the pay...the higher the dues.
These are the true Obama voters who think that by voting for someone like him they will eventually be good socialists and enjoy the good life. Well, they are wrong and when their employer closes the door to his business, they will make more on welfare anyway.
It’s amazing just how stupid today’s society is.
I came from an era when America was great, you were solely responsible for your own actions and worked as a child while gaining the skills and work ethic to advance yourself through the course of your life.
Not now, for it’s the Union or Government’s responsibility to do that with this society.
At even 4 times the $1500 quoted in the story for a type of robotic server, the fast food workers are screwed.
Cheap labor stands in the way of innovation. It’s why the Civil War South was so lame - cheap slave labor. The north had to industrialize. The South didn’t.
If food workers want a hundred dollars an hour - in 3 years the whole mess will be automated...
I support this. Robots don’t have salivary glands with which to spit in my food.