Minimum wage hike will accelerate the process.
Look at it this way - this is a very Darwinian way to weed out the incompetents, who could NEVER be productive enough to justify a $15/hour wage.
At least, not until $15 is sufficiently eroded by inflation to be worth approximately $1.50. And that may be quicker than anybody now thinks.
There was an article not long ago that said Panera Bread was going to install automated order kiosks. They said it would replace two employees who would be “reassigned” (read: we will find stuff for them to do until we see that the system functions to our satisfaction and that the media has lost interest in the new kiosks, then were firin’ ‘em).
Minimum wage hike will accelerate the process. “
Local and national news both spent time stating this was not true and provided some statistical information. They did not cite their sources, however. Nor did they provide a listing of specific states or what the average hourly rate was in those states before they raised the minimum wage or which states had Republican versus Democrat governors.
The job growth in Texas and North Dakota has to be largely due to the oil patch activity where beginning wages has to be above the minimum wage or they would have more trouble hiring new employees than they already have.