What? That only assumes they can afford them at a certain price point. there is no correlation that someone that can afford them now can afford them at a higher price or are willing to have "a little less spending cash."
And neither leads to less employment.
If pay at fast-food joints was doubled and the prices raised accordingly the down side would be fewer people eating fast food.
This is not a down side.
that extra $2 makes the world of a difference? congrats you get to feel better about yourself.
Always go local when possible. Eating out though is the real problem. Brown bag it people! I eat a ton of turkey samiches and salads from home. You save time, money and oh yeah you dont contribute to the problem that is this thread. I'm not a lil guy by any means but seriously eating out is so bad primarily for the health reasons, not the business practices.
Why pay people to do things you can easily do yourself? in less time than you spend waiting for your order you could have made your samich or whatever for a brown bag meal. Oh thats right, all of you eating at those places are just as lazy and entitled as those you're complaining about.
I've been known to have a cooler with steaks or chicken and a weber Q100 in my trunk. Think a little differently and boy can you get great results.
in '08, Oakland had billboards up along the interstates looking for trainees for PD; $80+K/year. that is at least now equivalent to $90-95Khr now
That translated to $40-50/h; well above the $15 that these organizers are asking for.
Are you crack baby high?
Are you really comparing a police officer to someone who works at McDonalds?
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Yes, I lift.
WTF do pics of you naked and apparently fondling yourself have to do with McDonald's workers?
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For fucks sake. Permaban alky. Every time you don't the admin looks dumber and dumber.
UHaul will rent a 12-16 ft truck for $20/day + mileage
like you defending Mosh and the ilk.
like you defending Mosh and the ilk.
Here's the overall problem: assumptions.
no doubt there's a marginal good-not-sold whenever prices increase; the question is the elasticity of demand.
If we assume that there's a static amount of spending cash, then it would make sense to reduce employment in the frivolous entreatment sector (fast food, movies, etc) in order to increase the quality of the lives of those working in said sectors.
If we assume that the same amount of fun will be had no matter, then we don't hurt employment, and we improve everyone's life that's working: at the expense of investment capital (as even money put in the bank becomes investment capital for folks borrowing from the bank)
In truth, a 16 year old working at McD's doesn't need a 'living wage'. Instead we should extend the earned income tax credit and force it to be distributed into pay checks. We should adjust this so that someone working full time has enough earned-income to adjust their EIC up to the point that they are out of poverty.
A 16 year old girl wealthy parents will now not make nearly as much as a 32 year old widow with 3 kids. But the supply/demand driving the existence of the job will not be impacted; though the supply of people who should have jobs looking for them will go up.
I hate economics.
What are you talking about? (I'm guessing there's a back story here) Your entire existence on this board seems to revolve around creating useless, self-serving drama.
I don't know why your attention whore demeanor is constantly rewarded. Not to start anything but in my lurking, I've seen people get vacationed for far less here. You're kind of an anomaly. An outlier in relation to how this board seems to be moderated.
I'm sure conspiracy theories abound...
In a free market, or even semi-free, such as ours, money doesn't stay static among the people, nor does supply/demand. So, you can't assume that unless you are really saying is we need to change our economic structure. Me spending more money will actually DECREASE my level of fun. It's called buyer's remorse.
And expanding the EIC is ridiculous. If anything, it should be abolished.
I heard it that he's seeing an admin on the side and that he generates page views. (people love to watch a train wreck)What are you talking about? (I'm guessing there's a back story here) Your entire existence on this board seems to revolve around creating useless, self-serving drama.
I don't know why your attention whore demeanor is constantly rewarded. Not to start anything but in my lurking, I've seen people get vacationed for far less here. You're kind of an anomaly. An outlier in relation to how this board seems to be moderated.
I'm sure conspiracy theories abound...
Let's say there are on average 10 workers in the building at once. You're telling me that McDonald's only profits $32 an hour? That's not very much...
On the other hand, that's $60k a year and I've heard that a McDonald's franchisee owner needs many locations to make a decent income.
Hmm...
Restaurants are busy from 11am to 2pm, and from 5pm to 8pm. In between they are nearly completely dead, and you cannot run a business hiring people with split daily times.
Did they walk yet?
If they did, did they get a raise?
They tried the walk off before in chicago. they had tv crews there and only 3 employees walked off. The rest were inside busting ass because they were busy as shit.
so not sure how well this one is going to turn out.
Hahahaha if you only knew. I like Mosh as a person but was the happiest to see her leave the psych ward. Congrats on your conspiracy theory, turns out that you're just a giant turd. And everyone knows it, including every mod and admin, and yet here you are just defecating all over Anandtech like you have for a decade.