Fight for 15-what's everyone's opinions

It will spur innovation to automate every fast food joint into a big vending machine and thereby improve the product and add to the unemployed population.

whats the age demographic for fast food workers?

teenagers don't need a lot of money; they might be dangerous if they start getting paid too much.

Was hoping it was a thread about raising the distance back to 15 rounds instead of 12.

Not everyone is worth $15 an hour. When my daughter was in 10th grade she had a real bad semester in math. I told her "lets go to McDonalds and talk about it". When we got there I told her to watch the people behind the counter... after a few minutes she asked what was she supposed to be watching. I asked her which of those jobs did she think she could do?

She just stared at me. I then told her that if she didnt take her education seriously, this is the kind of job she could expect to get. I said if you cant work hard and stay focused in school, why would an employer hire you to sit around and not work hard at your job.

She changed her outlook and made A-B honor roll from then until she graduated. In college now and doing well.

The sad thing about the fast food workers (in our area they are primarily minorities), is that if they had studied hard in high school and made good grades there would have been scholarships available and they could get higher paying jobs. But they were lazy in high school and didnt want to be the nerdy kid. Well they will probably end up working for the nerdy kid someday.

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by alphaandomega Not everyone is worth $15 an hour. When my daughter was in 10th grade she had a real bad semester in math. I told her "lets go to McDonalds and talk about it". When we got there I told her to watch the people behind the counter... after a few minutes she asked what was she supposed to be watching. I asked her which of those jobs did she think she could do? She just stared at me. I then told her that if she didnt take her education seriously, this is the kind of job she could expect to get. I said if you cant work hard and stay focused in school, why would an employer hire you to sit around and not work hard at your job. She changed her outlook and made A-B honor roll from then until she graduated. In college now and doing well. The sad thing about the fast food workers (in our area they are primarily minorities), is that if they had studied hard in high school and made good grades there would have been scholarships available and they could get higher paying jobs. But they were lazy in high school and didnt want to be the nerdy kid. Well they will probably end up working for the nerdy kid someday.

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Good on you, pops.

I mean that in all seriousness. Take note fellas, that's excellent parenting right there.

Why not 100 dollars an hour?

They posted a pic of a check stub.... Fricker doesn't even have full time hours on it....

If minimum wage doubles, I hope they double my hourly wage...

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There has to be a bottom. If you raise the bottom to $15/hour, then everything will simply adjust upward. A loaf of bread and a gallon of milk will cost twice as much. The rich can afford the increase, the poor will still be at the bottom (which hasn't changed in terms of spending power, $15 is worth what $7.50 used to be worth), and the middle class get screwed.

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It isn't quite as simple as everything just adjusting upward. Inflation wouldn't just be 1:1. In this country we have one of the larger imbalances of income in the developed world, with the top earners taking in a disproportionately large percentage of overall output. Ideally, a law like this would just take away all the excess that the very top keeps. The problem is that there is no way that I know of to predict exactly how the market dynamics will react. And ultimately, you're right in that it will probably be the middle class that ends up getting screwed and paying for the lower class's increase in real wages.

I like my $8.50 Chipotle burrito. If they start getting paid $15, they're going to lose my business because there's no way I'm paying $17 for a friggin' burrito. No customers, no job. $7.50 vs $0.00. Get a better education and don't expect a fast food job to become your career.