Posted on 04/08/2013 1:52:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As low-wage food service workers demand a doubling of their pay, an uncurious journalist never wonders how people who earn $7.25 per hour were able to organize a “nationwide” strike replete with crisply-printed protest signs. For that matter, the dullard scribe doesn’t indicate whether “nationwide” connotes thousands of people in hundreds of locations or a dozen folks on two street corners.
Bad journalism is defined most often by what it lacks, rather than what it states. Incompetence, or conscious manipulation, are found in the question unasked, the fact unmentioned, the absence of context. The passive reader will never notice.
Reporting work of this caliber deserves less than $7.25 per hour, but it does provide an opportunity to explain, once again, how the world works.
Here are a few basic facts of life that each child should take to heart…and by “child” I mean journalist.
1) Your pay is not based on how much money you need to enjoy the lifestyle you desire.
2) Your pay is determined by the skill needed to do the work, and the difficulty of replacing you.
3) If your employer were to jack up your pay beyond those parameters she would have to jack up her prices, which would chase away customers, thereby reducing her need for you. (She alternately could reduce her profits, but that would scare off investors who provide the juice for growth. Stagnation is death.)
4) If you ever get paid what you’re worth, you will soon be fired....
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If this isn't sarcasm, then it ranks in the top 10% of stupid statements posted on FR, and that is a really competitive group.
Yes, because comrades, we all know that the proletariat will support the noble cause when Big Macs sell for $8 dollars.
You can’t even live on 15 an hour now days, I don’t know what the solution is, but people need a reasonable wage.
Art Laffer said any min. wage legislation should be called ‘The Minority Youth Unemployment Act’, because that’s all you’ll ever get by pricing their services out of the market
A “reasonable wage” across the board will only increase inflation. The answer is to reduce the cost of living by reducing taxes and regulations.
Two comments:
I seldom eat at a McDonald’s. I am NOT going to pay $10.00 - $15.00 for two hamburgers, fries and a small coke when I could get a HEALTHY meal for less at some other place.
We raised two son’s. When it came time for them to get a job (any job) we told them, “When you take a job for what the employer offers you, you work just as hard at that job as if he paid you double for what you are getting.
You committed to the job, do it! If you DON’T like the job, find another that pays you more. End of story!”
There is no right to a ‘reasonable’ wage.
So don't eat it. I see you're a supporter of Nanny Bloomberg.
Union mentality is a disease.
Union parasites go on strike because the cost of living has risen and they want more money to enjoy the same lifestyle they had before the increase in inflation.
They strike and always get a rise in pay. The next thing you know the prices of everything around them suddenly goes up and then the cycle starts again. They go on strike and get a pay raise and then the cost of living suddenly goes up again.
This labor disease is prevalent on the west coast and the north-east.
I live in Texas (a state hostile to unions) and my 2,600 square foot home cost me $175,000 when I bought it. The same house would cost somewhere around $300,000 to 400,000 in heavily unionized areas of the country.
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because of the union mentality? You bet!
“Crisply printed signs” ?
Not paid for @ $7.50 an hour.
Unions have a hand in this. They are loosing workers and need to organize . Wait until these minions are forced to pay unions and taxes and all of that other government *&^% they end up right back where they started.
Who gets to decide what is a reasonable wage?
You do realize that what you are proposing is socialism?
You think you should be paid based on what it takes to live? What new form of economic system are you proposing when paying you what it takes to live causes the cost of what you produce or deliver to become more than what people think it’s worth, and what should you do for work when the owner closes shop permanently?
They don’t teach economics in college anymore do they? I’ve see some of the strangest economic contortions right here on a conservative board and conservatives are way more astute economically than the no nothing liberals.
It seems the media has done its job spreading lies because so many people have fallen for the need for a “living” wage.
Well what about you??? Would you change your tune if your employer and all employers decided they would pay you 7 bucks an hour???
Sorry, Mickey D employees, but slinging hamburgers was never meant to be a career. You want more money, get some damn skills!
Most employers pay far more than minimum wage, why is that?
The inverse is true of those making minimum wage. I've hired many of them, and I'll tell you that they aren't worth minimum wage.
Not every job is worth a wage that you can support a family on. If you deam that every job must be, then all you will achieve is the elimination of those jobs.
If I had to house and feed children and couldn't do it on $15/hr, I'll tell you what I would be doing:
1. Working more than 40/hr a week.
2. Making myself the best worker my employer ever had, so that I could sucessfully ask for a raise.
3. Looking for a better paying job, while continuing to work the one I'm in.
4. Cutting expenses to the bone.
Entry level jobs are not intended to be careers, nor are they suitable career choices for those who are seeking greater compensation.
No, at least there should not be an across the board pay scale mandated by Washington. It should be what the market can hold in an area where each McDonald’s is located, maybe with a minimum wage at $7.
How much would the $1 burgers cost then? $5? Convenience be hanged, if they do this, McD’s is off my menu forever.
Why would I want to trade one arm of socialism for another? If you want to make more, equip yourself to earn more. That costs money, time and effort. If you are unwilling to do that, thank the Lord and enjoy what you already have.
That costs money, time and effort.
It’s work before play and not play before work.
It’s called an obscure name: WORK ETHIC. A word almost completely unknown by those younger than 50 years old.
I’ll make a deal with you.
You get to choose the wage I pay you, I get to choose how you spend the wages you earn.
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