Most fast food workers in California would get a $20 minimum wage next year — a nearly $5 per hour raise — under a deal announced Monday between labor unions and the industry that will avoid a costly referendum on the November 2024 ballot.
If someone is content with flipping burgers their entire life they should be able to survive on the wages they’re paid. “Burger flippers” are still essential to the operation of the country. The service industry is a vital part of American culture, and if you want to maintain it then paying people to do the jobs you don’t want to is the only way.
Your problem should be with other professions not paying more, not that other people are finally making enough money to survive.
Why should anyone bust their ass learning a skill like welding or going to school for information technology or becoming a dental assistant or becoming an electrician when burger flippers will only be making a few dollars an hour less?
Because I sure as shit don’t want to flip my own burgers. I don’t always want to put in that effort. After I’m done working for the day I want to kick back. So what if anyone can flip a burger? Anyone can cut their own hair, but I sure as hell am not going to look good unless I pay a barber.
I’m not paying someone for having an exclusive skill. I’m paying them because they’re doing something that I don’t want to do, and they deserve to be compensated for that.
Get down from your high horse. Your job isn’t your worth. And I’m saying this as a chemical engineer who’s designed hundred million dollar equipment. The difference between what I do and what they do doesn’t warrant a 25k salary difference. Anything more than 10k is exorbitant. Our lives are only possible because someone has taken on a job that people don’t usually want. Someone keeps sewers running, picks up garbage, and cleans up after everyone. Unless you are willing to do their job 40 hours a week, put a sock in it.
Pay everyone a wage that they can live on, at the minimum.
To be clear, as well, I am in the information technology sector and make $150/hr (calculated from my salary). So if people want to bust their ass to learn skills, it still works out well.
Welders, plumbers, electricians, etc. can make way more than $20/hr
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If someone is content with flipping burgers their entire life they should be able to survive on the wages they’re paid. “Burger flippers” are still essential to the operation of the country. The service industry is a vital part of American culture, and if you want to maintain it then paying people to do the jobs you don’t want to is the only way.
Your problem should be with other professions not paying more, not that other people are finally making enough money to survive.
Because I sure as shit don’t want to flip my own burgers. I don’t always want to put in that effort. After I’m done working for the day I want to kick back. So what if anyone can flip a burger? Anyone can cut their own hair, but I sure as hell am not going to look good unless I pay a barber.
I’m not paying someone for having an exclusive skill. I’m paying them because they’re doing something that I don’t want to do, and they deserve to be compensated for that.
Get down from your high horse. Your job isn’t your worth. And I’m saying this as a chemical engineer who’s designed hundred million dollar equipment. The difference between what I do and what they do doesn’t warrant a 25k salary difference. Anything more than 10k is exorbitant. Our lives are only possible because someone has taken on a job that people don’t usually want. Someone keeps sewers running, picks up garbage, and cleans up after everyone. Unless you are willing to do their job 40 hours a week, put a sock in it.
If you’re jealous of people flipping burgers, it sounds like you need a better job yourself.
Because this is the stupidest comment ever
Pay everyone a wage that they can live on, at the minimum.
To be clear, as well, I am in the information technology sector and make $150/hr (calculated from my salary). So if people want to bust their ass to learn skills, it still works out well.
Welders, plumbers, electricians, etc. can make way more than $20/hr
Again. Stupid boomer fucking comment.
This article about fast food workers in Denmark is a few years old but even more relevant today. It also shows why your comment is not valid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/living-wages-served-in-denmark-fast-food-restaurants.html
You’re not welcome here, capitalist shill. No, wait - you’re actually not welcomed ANYWHERE.