I cannot abide people like Maribel. It is not McDonald’s fault if she cannot make ends meet on the hourly rate she agreed to when she took the job. Her life outside of the golden arches is not that company’s responsibility. If she needs another $5.65/hour to make ends meet, how about a second job?
Companies cannot give in to this “living wage” nonsense. Like other types of extortion, it won’t end there.
Most people have no idea that wages and prices have a basis in reality. They can’t be arbitrarily changed just because someone wishes they were different. It makes me so mad that no so-called reporter ever asks why these people have children they cannot afford to feed, where are the fathers and why aren’t they paying support, why can’t other members of the family work, how much taxpayer funded goodies are they receiving, and why doesn’t she try to get a promotion or train for a better job?
And there is another side as well, and that is the DEMAND side. IF every employee is required to have a so-called living wage, how does the business make a profit?
The economically ignorant do not realize a business MUST make a profit or it will die. I've even had Leftist tell me they don't have to make "obscene profits", which they cannot quantify what that is, except they KNOW that ExxonMobil, Apple, Microsoft, EVERY defense company, etc., make these horrible kinds of profits.
So in a world of their making, people getting this living wage will find the price of things quickly outpacing their additional income. It will balance out, and they still will be as poor as the day they didn't make enough.
And the businesses! Well, if they survive, things will cost more, but more likely places like McDonalds, etc., will just close down where people don't have $10 to spend on a hamburger. As more businesses go belly up, the economy sours and the government collects less revenue. Soon the government doesn't have enough to pay welfare recipient's a living anything. They riot, burn up cities, and kill each other, and hopefully not any innocent people, but it sure would be nice to see some vent their rage against, say, professors' housing at the prestigious Left wing universities, and at the well-to-do higher up government employees' and politicians abodes.
One can hope.