re: "Fast Food Workers: You Don’t Deserve $15 an Hour to Flip Burgers and That’s OK"

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They don't deserve a salary that allows them to live comfortably. Poverty is a good motivator to do better for yourself, or at least it used to be.

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What a wonderful Christian country we live in.

Abolish wage slavery, abolish capitalism, abolish the state. Noam Chomsky will lead us into battle during the anarcho-syndicalist revolution.

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Hard work is a skill.. and being good at fast food is a skill.

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Being a hard worker is not a skill it's a trait. And being good at fast food is not a skill it's called doing your job well. And in most instances the ones who do their job well are rewarded with raises. Heck, I remember when I worked at McDonald's they gave people raises for getting good grades in school, regardless of work performance. So if you are a new employee or just ok employee guess what you get minimum wage. If you show you can perform your job above expectations you get raises above minimum wage.

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Don't these morons realize, that if the pay goes up that much, they won't have a job???

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If they had that much sense, they wouldn't still be making min. wage.

When the pay for burger flippers goes that high, fast food places will automate.

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If their franchises have to pay their employees more, the corporate business will have to charge the franchises less for food, cutting into their profits, in order to share a little bit more of their success with their employees.

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You mean McDonald's employees are not allowed to own stock in the company? Weird.

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LebranfortheJ

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Well hello alter..

I'm not supporting it, I'm saying "guys screw around at work" isn't a fast food exclusive thing.

This has to be a several part project.

1. Raise the wage to 15 dollars.

2. Legislation to outlaw factory like production of food. Say that each meal that is made has to be produced by at least four people (to prevent job losses).

3. Governmental subsidies for franchises in the interim transition period, three years.

4. Introduce an "income cap" for franchises, that no franchisee can make more than 20 times what the lowest paid full time employee makes.

5. Mandatory health care coverage.

Then this can go through.

Just raising a salary to 15 is a shallow attempt to create a just result.

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Instead, good ole Mickey D's would just have to eat some of the cost. McDonald's turns hundreds of millions of dollars in profit in the US every year, as does Burger King and other fast food chains.

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Wage rates are not determined by a company's profit margin. Besides, why do investors who make the stores, equipment, and capital available in the first place deserve the money less than the workers themselves, who have marginal products of labor that are not very high.