In unrelated news...Inflation is expected to continue to rise.
what was only a few short years ago a decent wage, is now minimum wage... #FJB
Enjoy your $30 Big Macs.
I’ve already quit buying any prepared food on the rare occasions I go to town. (although part of the reason is that mostly the quality has fallen as much as the prices have risen.)
And what about agriculture wages?
My comment isn’t directed to you but people need to read Dr. Sowell’s book about the true minimum wage is $0.00 per hour. If I’m a business owner and have $20 per hour to spend on two workers and Uncle Sam says its now $15 per hour, I fire the poorer worker, keep the better one and expect more from them to make up for the loss of the other.
I’m surprised by FL. Good campaign question for DeSantis.
Let’s hope the robots don’t get artificially “intelligent” enough to unionize.
Don’t understand the posters here.
One week threads complaining about how people can’t afford anything anymore and young people are screwed because they can’t earn enough to survive.
The next week complaining that people shouldn’t expect a living wage because their hamburger will cost too much.
All while telling people to learn to code or get a better job, but you don’t need college or a higher education because it’s a waste of money and time.
What the hell?
Robots such as industrial assembly line robots and even atm’s and self checkout lines need to pay social security. If it replaces a worker with a machine the owner of the machine needs to be required to withhold payroll taxes for that machine equal to what the human workers would have paid. This will help fund social security and medicare as well as remove some incentives to automation replacing human workers