Increase fast food wages?

[Edort4]

More like removing all useless (from her point of view) human beings if you ask me. Even in countries with +40% tertiary education graduates service sector is above 60-70% and 5-10% is agriculture. Its more like a "trend" (dont know what word to use). Usually advanced countries are the ones with more graduates and the more advanced a country is the more dependant is on service sector. So you end up having lots of ppl with phd serving burgers, giving masssages or dog walking.

Its a race of rats if you ask me. Sometimes I think that its better to be ignorant so you cant see how you are being explotied and lied by every wealthy/lucky human being in the planet. 40% of ppl for 25% of "true" jobs (in the best case scenario) and if you dont make it "you should had worked harder or got into another career". If this really was a true Darwinist race we should be allowed to use any means to achieve our goals but most of those that already made it there guard/shield/arm themselves with rules/laws/states/system.

[Buffalobiian]

More like removing all useless (from her point of view) human beings if you ask me.

I think that our world is overpopulated. We're missing the means to ethically reduce this number. We're also missing a way of doing this without suddenly creating an aging population that can't be supported by fewer taxpayers.

[Edort4]

I think that our world is overpopulated. We're missing the means to ethically reduce this number. We're also missing a way of doing this without suddenly creating an aging population that can't be supported by fewer taxpayers.

Im pretty sure you mean that some parts of the world are overpopulated am I right? I believe that problem will sort itself out by wars, pandemics, over explotation of fertile soil and finally hunger. I dont see the world reaching a consensus over population control.

1º world countries "need" (for devaluation of labor force purposes basically) inmigrants so even if they had achieved some kind of "greedy equilibrium" (ppl doesnt want to be hindered with responsabilities/family etc when they live like kings) theirpopulation will steadly increase. In China fro example they tried with laws/repression and it didnt work very well so imho I think it will end in the hands of entropy. Of course in the process there will be lots of hurt, missery, pain etc. Its the only way we have learned to do anything as a species.

[Sapphire]

More like removing all useless (from her point of view) human beings if you ask me.

Not quite sure why my post came across to u that way~

Fast food jobs are meant for high schoolers or people who need quick money in a pinch (or people who are unfortunately @ the lowest rung of education/skills for whatever reason and need a foot in the door). If you're a PhD working in McDs (getting paid $7.25-9 instead of the $40-50 you theoretically should be) the least you should be doing is living in some kind of shared living establishment and not the $800/mo apt. numbers Haru is throwing around. If worst comes to worst, at that point you should also more or less have the intelligence/abilities to create a niche market for yourself with some demand after scrimping, working extra jobs, or educating yourself in a field that's in demand for a few years. Prices are supposed to reflect supply & demand, not "cost of living". You all realize living comfortably/"cost of living" is subjective? Artificially controlling prices masks the real value of products (in this case, the product is your labor) and starts fucking up the economy (pushing and pulling) because no one knows the true worth of anything anymore. <--- important (PS - Artificially protecting jobs that should fall away over time due to technological advance/lack of demand is also bad for this same reason. Like, do we still need horse carriage builders?)

I'm also confused about why people are so entitled. The company doesn't have to hire people in the first place, but how much they pay you how many hours they give you needs to be regulated by random numbers because it's currently "not enough"? For example, I work for a small business for free right now just because the experience is just that valuable. If/when I do get paid for my hours, it would be below minimum wage cuz that's all she can afford. But if everyone went around demanding minimum wage (or heaven forbid, raising it) I know 99% of us wouldn't be able to work there at all, thus learning opportunity (and any extra bucks I can get) lost. Like Ani said, I'd expect raising minimum wage to actually cause layoffs.

(I'm surprised I actually agree w Carnage & Ani [in general] lol. Great article carnage actually it relates to the last vid I posted.)

Most importantly, minimum wage/government meddling is the main reason why people in America are unemployed right now:









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@24:00: "Raising minimum wage (let's say $2/hr) is an unrecoverable disaster for the poor".