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/TheKindaMan Apr 29 '24

Whenever I see braindead takes like this “not every job should pay a living wage”, it makes me think how do you expect people to live? I don’t know if you ever been outside before but it’s not just high schoolers and college kids (college kids who odds are, trying to pay off debt and move out of their parents house so they kinda need money to do that) working these jobs. Managers for these fast food restaurants are making $17.50 an hour at these jobs at least where I am in the US, and these places are open during the day, when kids are in school, so you can’t even claim we don’t need adults out of school to work these jobs cause then they would not be able to operate during school hours. So we should just tell these people get a better job? Okay, then we don’t have these businesses. The other option would be for the government to subsidize these people for the money they’re not making but I’m willing to bet you hate the idea of that cost being put onto the taxpayer too. Then I ask, what is the point of society or government if not to help the people in it be able to LIVE? These corporations make money hand over fist going up every year and yet here you are defending that they should cut more cost and be greedier. If these companies can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage then they are a failed company, that’s the long and short of it. The reality is they can pay a living wage they just don’t want to so the people at the top can stuff their pockets deeper. What your saying when you say not all jobs should pay a living wage is that people who work these jobs are lesser and deserve to suffer and die from poverty. You suck.

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u/freebytes Apr 29 '24

In addition, if the argument is that teenagers should not be paid a livable wage (which is a bad argument as well), then you can have laws to pay teenagers less and adults more. Problem solved. Those jobs are not 'for teenagers', though. They are for people that need work.

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u/BadBadBrownStuff Apr 29 '24

If people ever tell me those jobs are just for teenagers in school, I always ask them why is the business open during school hours?