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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Better Pay is an incentive.
    Ane better working conditions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Rightwing robber baron capitalists in USA have long whined that raising the minimum wage will kill their businesses.

    Let them fail. And incentivize and bring in restaurant and retail businesses owners from Norway, New Zealand, Germany, and France to run our restaurants. They figured out how to run a business in a high minimum wage environment.
    When FDR installed the min wage he said t was to be a living wage. He added that companies that will not pay a living wage should not exist in America,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    You banned me from a Thread! I shouldn't even be talking to you!!!
    You need somebody like me to explain what's going on.

    Why the labour shortage won’t last long


    https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-...151309530.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    When FDR installed the min wage he said t was to be a living wage. He added that companies that will not pay a living wage should not exist in America,
    Yeah, because every business in this country starts with millions of dollars in capital and can afford to pay all workers $30+/hr plus benefits on day one. And we need to make sure every 16 year old getting their first job scooping ice cream is paid a living wage with full benefits. Because that's realistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Better Pay is an incentive.
    lol. Isn't this a bit like saying, "Water is wet."
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Yeah, because every business in this country starts with millions of dollars in capital and can afford to pay all workers $30+/hr plus benefits on day one.
    so who is calling for a $30/hr minimum wage?

    and damn near every point you try to make is based upon a false premise......like damn near every right wing talking point

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    You lost most of the leftists here.
    Apparently man. I do work with a number of small businesses, including many that are immigrant owned. A number of these people scraped together (and borrow) every cent they can to start their business which often isn't all that much. For some they can barely afford to pay themselves a salary (and some don't) at the begging let along pay someone else $30+/hr as a living wage.

    The argument here seems to be don't start a business until you've raised enough money to pay everyone basically $40K+/yr, regardless of their age or experience. If the goal is a reduction in small business in this country, then that's fine. But if not that will be the result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    lol. Isn't this a bit like saying, "Water is wet."
    Well, it's similar to people saying 'Americans don't want to do that kind of Work'. Pay the person enough, and they will gladly shovel shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Well, it's similar to people saying 'Americans don't want to do that kind of Work'. Pay the person enough, and they will gladly shovel shit.
    Are you speaking from personal experience, did you join the shit shovellers union?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Apparently man. I do work with a number of small businesses, including many that are immigrant owned. A number of these people scraped together (and borrow) every cent they can to start their business which often isn't all that much. For some they can barely afford to pay themselves a salary (and some don't) at the begging let along pay someone else $30+/hr as a living wage.

    The argument here seems to be don't start a business until you've raised enough money to pay everyone basically $40K+/yr, regardless of their age or experience. If the goal is a reduction in small business in this country, then that's fine. But if not that will be the result.
    It is amazing that in the richest country in the world there seem to be no automatic paid holidays or health care. Make the very rich pay, and small businesses will doubtless get by.

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    Everyone relax, Biden has this figured out.

    All the service sector slaves will be replaced by slaves from south of the border. So when you get ready to order your food just be ready to use your best attempt at speaking Spanish.

    And remember you voted for this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: 'My life isn't worth a dead-end

    Source: Washington Post

    Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job’

    Some 649,000 employees gave notice in April, the sector’s largest one-month exodus in over 20 years, a reflection of pandemic-era strains and a strengthening job market. Retail workers, drained from the pandemic and empowered by a strengthening job market, are leaving jobs like never before.

    Americans are ditching their jobs by the millions, and retail is leading the way with the largest increase in resignations of any sector. Some 649,000 retail workers put in their notice in April, the industry’s largest one-month exodus since the Labor Department began tracking such data more than 20 years ago.

    Some are finding less stressful positions at insurance agencies, marijuana dispensaries, banks and local governments, where their customer service skills are rewarded with higher wages and better benefits. Others are going back to school to learn new trades, or waiting until they are able to secure reliable child care.

    “It was a really dismal time, and it made me realize this isn’t worth it,” said 23-year-old Aislinn Potts of Murfreesboro, Tenn., who left her $11-an-hour job as an aquatic specialist at a national pet chain in April to focus on writing and art. “My life isn’t worth a dead-end job.”

    In interviews with more than a dozen retail workers who recently left their jobs, nearly all said the pandemic introduced new strains to already challenging work: longer hours, understaffed stores, unruly customers and even pay cuts.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...quitting-jobs/

    ...every store clerk you see while out shopping looks like a zombie.....and very few of them know anything about the business that's paying them that minimum wage. go to Safeway and ask an employee where the ketchup is sometime
    Salvadorians, Guatemalans etc to the rescue...

    If they are good enough for trump & his golf courses they are good enough for walmart & kroger
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Better Pay is an incentive.
    Then let the market run its course. Forcing businesses to pay a minimum wage is useless.

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