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re: Minimum wage battle is going to destroy small businesses!
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:51 pm to LNCHBOX
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:51 pm to LNCHBOX
Let’s say your a man in your 30s with 2 kids who works fast food because you didn’t get educated and parents were poor.
You work minimum wage in LA (7.25 an hour) need a 2 bedroom cuz kids which let’s be super conservative and say is 1200. Let’s assume they eat real cheap (40 a week for family of 3) but need clothes for kids and other misc expenses like a phone for himself and internet ~200 a month. He needs a car to get to work because public transportation isn’t available near him. Let’s say he buys the cheapest reliable used car for $300 a month and another $50 a month for insurance. Now factor in gas is $40 a week.
That means just to provide bare minimum BEFORE taxes it’s 300 hours a month. Now let’s factor in him having to take kids to school parks etc.
How would he improve his life from current state
You work minimum wage in LA (7.25 an hour) need a 2 bedroom cuz kids which let’s be super conservative and say is 1200. Let’s assume they eat real cheap (40 a week for family of 3) but need clothes for kids and other misc expenses like a phone for himself and internet ~200 a month. He needs a car to get to work because public transportation isn’t available near him. Let’s say he buys the cheapest reliable used car for $300 a month and another $50 a month for insurance. Now factor in gas is $40 a week.
That means just to provide bare minimum BEFORE taxes it’s 300 hours a month. Now let’s factor in him having to take kids to school parks etc.
How would he improve his life from current state
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Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:51 pm to LNCHBOX
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you think self serve kiosks couldn't come about any sooner than they did?
You should ask McDs what took them so long with their tens/hundreds of millions per year in R&D they've been since the 50s.
They debuted the automated grill FIFTY years ago specifically to reduce the number of burger flippers needed to operate a store.
I guess it was the ridiculously high wages in the late 1960's that drove them to that.
This post was edited on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:52 pm to Deactived
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I bet your daughter is named lucy
He's the guy that was fantasizing about his teen daughter being creampied.
Hence Mmmmmmmmmmmcreampie.
And why he disappeared for months.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:52 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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So is it really just “frick those people, let them rot” in your mind?
Why such extremes in all of these arguments?
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:52 pm to fareplay
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Let’s say your a man in your 30s with 2 kids who works fast food because you didn’t get educated and parents were poor.
Your education and parents don’t dictate you having 2 kids you can’t afford at 30.
Your decisions do.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:52 pm to fareplay
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Also forgot to respond to this in particular but poor people aka low credit need first last and deposit so it is 3x fyi
Pay the bills you owe and your credit score won't be shite
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm to LNCHBOX
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that's life.
So you have no solutions. You want no welfare, no minimum wage, just a "make it or break it" model of life....in America?
You know what happened last time we tried that? Well, the "Red Scare" might interest you. At no time in US history was communism more popular than in the 1930s when Americans were left completely on their own to survive. Great plan, LNCH.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm to beerJeep
Ok then let’s say it’s their decisions that led them here. Now what?
This post was edited on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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You should ask McDs what took them so long with their tens/hundreds of millions per year in R&D they've been since the 70s.
They debuted the automated grill FIFTY years ago specifically to reduce the number of burger flippers needed to operate a store.
I guess it was the ridiculously high wages in the late 1960's that drove them to that.
This is the level of stupid that has me not surprised you think artificially inflated wages are good.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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Easier to pretend real-life problems don't exist than to actually understand 42,000,000 American citizens live in poverty and solutions are required.
Importing 10 million workers from the third world is sure going to help that.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:53 pm to Deactived
The frickin guy said no adult should be working a minimum wage job, who is the extreme one here? 
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:54 pm to mmmmmbeeer
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So you have no solutions
The solution is to own your fricking choices.
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You know what happened last time we tried that? Well, the "Red Scare" might interest you. At no time in US history was communism more popular than in the 1930s when Americans were left completely on their own to survive. Great plan, LNCH.
Ah yes, I'm bringing in communism
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:54 pm to fareplay
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Ok then let’s say it’s their decisions that led them here. Now what?
Use that thing in their pocket that has the entire breadth of knowledge of the human species and better his situation.
Or sit and bitch and complain about how someone else has nicer and newer shite and how he deserves that stuff too.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:54 pm to NawlinsTiger9
These “baws” who never had struggles in their lives telling others how to get out of it. Who is the elitists now?
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:55 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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The frickin guy said no adult should be working a minimum wage job, who is the extreme one here?
The army pays more than minimum wage, so that should be the floor for an adult male's earning.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:55 pm to beerJeep
Stop trying to divert and answer the question. The answer is nothing. He can do nothing because his sole goal is survival.
Not everyone has a good life. You support them getting out of it or suppress them from getting out
Not everyone has a good life. You support them getting out of it or suppress them from getting out
This post was edited on 4/2/24 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:56 pm to LNCHBOX
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This is the level of stupid that has me not surprised you think artificially inflated wages are good.
What's stupid about it?
Every business is trying to reduce costs all the time. That's regardless of what the nominal cost is.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:56 pm to fareplay
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These “baws” who never had struggles in their lives telling others how to get out of it. Who is the elitists now?
“I have more money than any of you”
“Whose the elitists now”
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:56 pm to beerJeep
And yet I’m in support of helping the poor. You?
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:57 pm to fareplay
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You work minimum wage in LA
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a man in your 30s
Do better. This kind of unmotivated loser should not be rewarded, lest we create more of them. Don't care that it sounds harsh.
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