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What the hell am I missing?
It’s common sense, If you can’t get people to work for $7.50 an hour you need to offer more than 7.50 an hour.

 

When Trump’s Next Coup Happens, the Republican Party Will Fully Support It

 

Supply and demand is a glorious thing until the poors start getting it in their head that they should earn an actual living.

Businesses have been using the government safety net to subsidize their unsustainably low labor costs. Now that somebody found a way to cut out the middleman and give some of that directly to the rabble the bottom feeder businesses are indignant.

 

that's a huge nordic invasion but as long as they're sending their best

 

Maybe I need to look at it from the employer's point of view, but if someone is going to spend 1/3 of their life or more working for somebody, the least the employee can do is pay them enough to support themselves.

 

I get the sentiment, and the logic.

There is, however, an element of unwillingness to actually work hard -- another words, a lack of basic work ethic -- that seems to be coming into play more and more. And, of course, because it makes sense, you tend to see it more in the lower-paying jobs that, generally speaking, do have a ceiling on how much businesses are willing, or even able, to pay their workers, and still be a sustainable, profitable business.

I see it all the time at Walmart, which is hiring, even now, and which doesn't have particularly high hiring standards, doesn't even pay all that badly in most places anymore, and still has trouble hiring, and keeping, good workers for whom the main qualification is just to simply show up for work on a consistent basis.

My feeling is that it is because you do, in fact, actually have to work pretty hard in most positions -- the tasks are often physical, there is a lot of customer service -- read: interruptions, issues and problems -- involved, and the stores are often understaffed, making things even harder, sometimes. And, a certain amount of initiative is required for best experience because there isn't always a lot of managerial direction to be had.

There are other factors involved in employee satisfaction and retention, of course, but when you have trouble getting workers for even starter, non-demanding (in terms of standards) jobs, I can believe that there's a problem with the workers, too. It usually isn't only about the pay.

 

Bottom-feeder businesses. You mean, like locally-owned restaurants?

Hey - I'm generally with ya here. But the "villain" isn't typically Target, at least not where I live. Target pays OK. It's the coffee shop and restaurants owned, in some cases, by people progressives might even like.

 

If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out.

If you can’t afford to pay a living wage, you can’t afford to hire employees. Either you can make it work with yourself and maybe some family members or you have your economic signal that your business isn’t viable.

It is very instructive to see who all is getting the vapors when “the least of these” have some real leverage in the employment market for the first time in over half a century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/07/uber-lyft-drivers/

 

I don't care who owns it. If they underpay their workers I don't care if they're someone I might otherwise like. When your employees are working full time and bouncing on the poverty line, on medicaid because they can't afford health insurance, I don't care if you're "a progressive". In fact, pretty much anyone doing that simply isn't a progressive.