doubling wages does not mean doubling retail cost

[abrere]

labor costs are just 1/3rd the cost of a product. So, say a head of lettuce costs, $3. Double the wages paid to pick it, and you only need to raise the price to $4. You dont have to ALSO double the wages of the farmer, the trucker, the warehouser, the shipper and the retailer, ya know.

 

[Taz]

labor costs are just 1/3rd the cost of a product. So, say a head of lettuce costs, $3. Double the wages paid to pick it, and you only need to raise the price to $4. You dont have to ALSO double the wages of the farmer, the trucker, the warehouser, the shipper and the retailer, ya know.

Everyone will need a raise. Do you think the truckers are going to let the beaners get as much as they do?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Do the sensible thing and mechanize the farms. Send the farm workers back.

 

[Kondor3]

Time for America to begin developing robots to pick the lettuce.

In the long run, it's cheaper and simpler and safer than hauling-in truckloads of beaners year after year.

As the idea catches on, lettuce-field automation will get much cheaper, and the price of that head of lettuce may actually go down.

Win-Win.

Meanwhile, we start 'chipping' (low-jacking) temporary field workers, so we can find 'em easily, if they decide to roam off the range.

Call it a 'condition of employment' with free removal the day they cross back over the border.

 

[SSGT Bags]

Time for America to begin developing robots to pick the lettuce.

In the long run, it's cheaper and simpler and safer than hauling-in truckloads of beaners year after year.

As the idea catches on, lettuce-field automation will get much cheaper, and the price of that head of lettuce may actually go down.

Win-Win.

Meanwhile, we start 'chipping' (low-jacking) temporary field workers, so we can find 'em easily, if they decide to roam off the range.

Call it a 'condition of employment' with free removal the day they cross back over the border.

That is the exact effect of raising minimum wages.
Robots can do menial jobs for a lot less than 15 bucks
Notice the disappearing cashiers at Wal-Mart?
The burger flippers at Mickey D's aren't far behind.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

labor costs are just 1/3rd the cost of a product. So, say a head of lettuce costs, $3. Double the wages paid to pick it, and you only need to raise the price to $4. You dont have to ALSO double the wages of the farmer, the trucker, the warehouser, the shipper and the retailer, ya know.

Dumb Jock Bullies

Low-IQ Bizz Skule graduates aren't good enough at math to understand your point. Simplify things for them, as was done in their final exam in Accounting:

Q. How much is 2 + 2?
A. How much do you want it to be?