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You don`t mind subsidizing the Walton family`s employees with food stamps? What a sucker you are.If Walmart gave every one of their employees a $3 an hour raise and they didn`t raise prices they would still be one of the wealthiest families on the planet. No, prices don`t have to go up. Look at Costco.Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job
This is what happens when human workers demand minimum wages that are twice what they are worth.
That's great. Now there will be even more people collecting social services. Happy? The point here is that these employers have to start paying employees enough to live on. When they do NOT, who picks up the slack?? Do you know?
Maybe the people will improve themselves? Maybe they will realize that an entry level fast food position was never meant to be a career option that enables you to support a family?
When you pay people more than what their labor is worth, a bunch of things happen. 1st, prices have to go up, or jobs have to go down. 2nd. People who are actually worth the wage being paid will now take the jobs from the lower skilled people, leaving them without a job anyway. Finally those who used to make above minimum wage, now making minimum wage will see people worth less than they are making the same $$, and will demand an increase in salary. Again, prices go up, jobs go down.
If someone spit in your food you probably gave them a reason. Don`t be such a racist asshole and you won`t have that problem....and it won't spit in white people's food.
If the people were worth the $3 an hour, then fine. If the Waltons want to do it voluntarily, fine.
But government should not force companies to pay people over their worth by such a significant amount.
I'm not an envious little twat, so no.
And if it's only food stamps, and the wal-mart job leads them to a higher paying one without food stamps, then mission accomplished.