Now making 15 dollars an hour working 40 hours a week and having a two week vacation would mean that a McDonalds employee would make 30,000 a year. This would mean that restaurant that is open 16 hours a day seven days a week with two fully staffed shifts of ten hourly employees per shift would cost the restaurant 873,600 per year for non-skilled labor. Now what incentive would the owners of fast food restaurants have to spend 900,000 a year on labor costs when a machine such as this can take the place of at least half the workforce for a fraction of the cost I'm a Burger Cooking Machine. Not to mention no days off, no slip in performance due to fatigue, no concerns about health care costs.
The "Strike for 15" is also focusing on the retail sector which is on life support as a viable economic entity as it is. Besides online shopping and next day delivery that eliminates having to do deal with crowds and keeps consumer prices low provided by sources such as Amazon. Digital delivery of once tangible goods such as movies, music and video games have left retail business in a precarious position. If the owners of the dwindling retail storefronts have to pay their employees 30,000 a year on top of any benefits and overhead cost all while losing market share to online sales what incentive would they have to stay open?
One of the issues at hand with the "Strike for 15" is the difficulties of supporting a family on an hourly wage job as pointed out in this article that tells of a woman who works retail in Chicago and is trying to support her four kids. Strike for 15
While many are asking how someone is supposed to support a family on 8.50 an hour the question nobody seems to want to ask is why would someone have four kids while the only means of supporting those kids was a minimum wage job. If we were living in a country that didn't have easy access to birth control and the right to abortions that even come in pill form I may have more sympathy.
The fact is that by asking for 15 dollars an hour these workers would be pricing themselves out of the job market. The reason wages are low is that we have more people than we have a need for in the workforce. The menial physical labor workers of the past have been made obsolete by technological advances. We have for too long considered employment rate based on the number of people when what we need to do is look at it from the perspective of how many people do we need to be a full employment. We keep hearing about a lack of jobs yet there is no job that isn't getting done.
Every day more and more jobs will be replaced by technological advances and all those Amazon jobs that were created last week will be slashed as well sometime in the future.
We are creating a future in which menial labor for humans is nonexistent. The question becomes is it a dystopian or utopian future. There is one variable that comes into play here and that is population size. Human society will function better than it ever has if in the next two generations the population become half of today's population which would easily be achieved by having fewer children. As an agriculture or manufacturing society we needed a larger labor force in order for society to function in an information society a larger labor force is burdon on the economy. There will be fewer jobs for humans in the future so the question is do we want to have a large number of unemployed humans or do we want to just have a smaller population size?
I will let you know the outcome as I plan on being around with the help of technology
The "Strike for 15" is also focusing on the retail sector which is on life support as a viable economic entity as it is. Besides online shopping and next day delivery that eliminates having to do deal with crowds and keeps consumer prices low provided by sources such as Amazon. Digital delivery of once tangible goods such as movies, music and video games have left retail business in a precarious position. If the owners of the dwindling retail storefronts have to pay their employees 30,000 a year on top of any benefits and overhead cost all while losing market share to online sales what incentive would they have to stay open?
One of the issues at hand with the "Strike for 15" is the difficulties of supporting a family on an hourly wage job as pointed out in this article that tells of a woman who works retail in Chicago and is trying to support her four kids. Strike for 15
While many are asking how someone is supposed to support a family on 8.50 an hour the question nobody seems to want to ask is why would someone have four kids while the only means of supporting those kids was a minimum wage job. If we were living in a country that didn't have easy access to birth control and the right to abortions that even come in pill form I may have more sympathy.
The fact is that by asking for 15 dollars an hour these workers would be pricing themselves out of the job market. The reason wages are low is that we have more people than we have a need for in the workforce. The menial physical labor workers of the past have been made obsolete by technological advances. We have for too long considered employment rate based on the number of people when what we need to do is look at it from the perspective of how many people do we need to be a full employment. We keep hearing about a lack of jobs yet there is no job that isn't getting done.
Every day more and more jobs will be replaced by technological advances and all those Amazon jobs that were created last week will be slashed as well sometime in the future.
We are creating a future in which menial labor for humans is nonexistent. The question becomes is it a dystopian or utopian future. There is one variable that comes into play here and that is population size. Human society will function better than it ever has if in the next two generations the population become half of today's population which would easily be achieved by having fewer children. As an agriculture or manufacturing society we needed a larger labor force in order for society to function in an information society a larger labor force is burdon on the economy. There will be fewer jobs for humans in the future so the question is do we want to have a large number of unemployed humans or do we want to just have a smaller population size?
I will let you know the outcome as I plan on being around with the help of technology
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