re: $15 minimum wage directly contributing to fast-food industry's automation push

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Is capitalism. And it has done just that. Our "poor" in this country are not poor.

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I agree, but you're just good with where we're at? No reason to try to improve?

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Travel outside the US a bit and you'll understand this.

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I have and do

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Yea they do because the cost of living has gone up substantially. Just because they choose to work in the fast food industry, doesn’t mean they should be forced to live in poverty. It’s not that hard to understand.

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They could choose to do anything. They could choose to learn a skill. They aren't forced into poverty. Maybe if we solved the problem of single mothers then rent wouldn't be so expensive.

I don't understand why the concept of personal responsibility has been lost. Being 45 years old working at a fast food place should never be a career. It's the price paid for cheap and unhealthy meals. A $15 minimum wage hurts the people you are trying to protect more than anyone.

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The work they do does not justify $15 an hour. Period.

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Chances are they make your lunch most days, maybe you should just stop eating fast food then. Then you won’t have to worry what they’re paid.

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I have and do

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Your dad pays for your travel like he bought your condo?

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Chances are they make your lunch most days, maybe you should just stop eating fast food then.

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I don't eat fast food.

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Then you won’t have to worry what they’re paid.

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But I have to worry about my costs going up at the other businesses that will be forced to pay low skill workers more than they're worth.

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They could choose to do anything. They could choose to learn a skill. They aren't forced into poverty.

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This is so disenginous its stupid. That's like saying you aren't in the NBA because you just didn't work hard enough.

Look, a shite load of people are in poverty because of their own actions, but be born into living in some slum in Detroit with no father and an addict mother and 6 siblings. You routinely have no power, don't know where your next meal is coming from, and no direction. You have to take a city bus to school, and no one is making you go.

Can you lift yourself out of that situation? Absolutely, but acting like it's just some lapse in personal responsibility is bullshite

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They're doing it because of the push for the $15 an hour wage, which has been going on for a few years.

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There's been a push on automation for a hell of a lot longer than that.

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but when the push for $15 an hour really started to get pushed is when automation really went into overdrive.

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Automation and robotics has been in overdrive since at least the early 80s

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They want those systems perfected and in place before $15 an hour hits.

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They want them perfected and in place as soon as possible because it's cheaper than $7.55/hour. It has nothing to do with $15/hour

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Not his opinion.

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The collective opinion of the value of labor

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It's dictated by the market.

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No its not, it's dictated by the government

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A federally mandated minimum wage is not the way to improve.

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Its retarded.

Hell, some of the countries progs want to emulated do not have min wages.

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I don't understand why the concept of personal responsibility has been lost. Being 45 years old working at a fast food place should never be a career.

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So people shite on them for sitting at home on welfare, then shite on them for getting a job at a fast food restaurant and daring to ask for a livable wage and accuse them of having no personal responsibility. Is there anything this group of people could do to satisfy you titans of capitalism so you don't have to pay $2 more for your Big Mac meal?