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"They can just raise the price of a burger 25 cents to cover the new wage."
If restaurants could raise prices with no consequence to sales, wouldn't they already have done that?
If restaurants could raise prices with no consequence to sales, wouldn't they already have done that?
If you raise prices, at some point you sell less. And then you have less money to pay for increased labor costs. So you have to do with less labor. This isn't complicated.
I just don't get people's religious faith that enacting $15 nationwide won't have negative consequences.
I just don't get people's religious faith that enacting $15 nationwide won't have negative consequences.
And how many of these activists even know anyone who earns minimum wage? If they end up making things worse for people, will they even know or care?
I suspect they'll just pat themselves on the back for doing a good thing and call it a day.
I suspect they'll just pat themselves on the back for doing a good thing and call it a day.
The minimum wage is emblematic of the worst kind of activism. It's ostensibly to help the poor but puts that's burden completely on other people with no concern about the actual consequences.
And where is this idea that all wages have to be "liveable" -- whatever you define that to mean? Kids can't earn extra cash? The disabled who maybe can't do $15 in value an hour can't find some employment?
The scariest thing is just the complete lack of concern for unintended consequences. But again, I think a lot of this is being pushed by people who think they're great for doing something but won't be directly affected by it at all.
