>>Then you can’t live on $0.00 either, which you get more of with minimum wage.
But $0.00 makes you qualify for all sorts of welfare.
Bring GOOD jobs back so minimum wage jobs can go to teenagers who need gas money. Yes, that will hurt Wall St a bit, but the growing welfare state costs us all a hell of a lot more.
I agree with both of you. Minimum wage jobs were designed as entry level teaching tools. The benefit to the consumer is that they can get reasonably priced goods because of unskilled labor.
The purpose is to teach skills for later jobs. Today how many of us are aghast that these employees cannot even make correct change? The food quality is all there, but is sloppy. Food orders are often incorrect. Personal appearance is ... unique. Ability to follow direction is tenuous at best, but in each location there are shining examples of people who learn and grow, appreciate the opportunity, and are eager to move on to bigger and better, and better paying jobs.
Then there are the others, who begrudgingly show up late for work, when they are there, are argumentative, or insolent, are non performers, do their jobs poorly, do not interact well with the public, as well as their co-workers, and have no drive to work any more than they absolutely have to, and often complain about too many hours, or not enough, or the wrong days, the list goes on and on.
And these people just described, are the ones who want $15/hr wages. Because they have no desire to improve themselves, resent having to work at all, and hate THE MAN for expecting them to be grateful for their job.
In this scenario, everybody loses. The owner/operator, co-workers, the public. The biggest loser is those employees who do not learn the valuable lessons being taught to them in an ENTRY LEVEL JOB opportunity. And it will dog them for the rest of their working life.
Entry level jobs are there for a reason. They were never, never intended to be careers, and that is the crux of the issue IMO.