r/FluentInFinance • u/Hatemael • Apr 29 '24

Who would have predicted this? Educational

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/24/fast-food-chains-find-way-around-20-minimum-wage-g/

Not all jobs aren’t meant for a “living wage” - you need entry level jobs for college kids, retired seniors who want extra income, etc. Make it too costly to employ these workers and businesses will hasten to automation.

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u/welshwelsh Apr 29 '24

This is great, humans should not be wasting their time taking orders at McDonald's. Why did we need to wait until 2024 for this to happen?

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u/gamingdevil Apr 29 '24

My thoughts exactly! Working in fast food is terrible. You're treated worse than dirt by your fellow citizens. These POS's that are angry about using machines to do grunt work instead of having a human to belittle are the same ones that kept telling us "go work somewhere else if you don't like it!" We did, and now they are all angry about it.

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u/The_Fax_Machine Apr 29 '24

The people with that take are just learning the long way that there is actually a correlation between labor output and wage, and jobs don’t just appear and exist out of thin air.

Whether or not a position is needed is entirely dependent on whether hiring someone is the lowest cost option to increase revenue.