Told ya so: $20 minimum wage in California is about to put thousands of low-income people out of work

[martybegan]

It's cost/benefit.

There is a tipping point where the cost of employees vs the cost of automation begins to favor automation.

That point has now been reached.

Or you hire more competent people to get your value for the labor you have to pay.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

For every action there's a reaction. This action was predictable

 

[marvin martian]

This was predictable.

It was inevitable, but the people who run California did it anyway, and it shows how they truly feel about low-income workers.

 

[martybegan]

Of course. The inevitable is that simple jobs for low paid workers are going to be jobs that are easy to give to robots to do.

You still don't need to speed it up.

 

[blackhawk]

It was inevitable, but the people who run California did it anyway, and it shows how they truly feel about low-income workers.

If you live in Beverly Hills or Silicon Valley 20 dollar minimum wage doesn’t affect you.

 

[westwall]

Sure. That way you can dismiss the plight of the underpaid with maximum smugness.

As opposed to throwing them on the dole, never to rise out of it thanks to no opportunity.

In other words the government are the new slave owners.

 

[marvin martian]

Seems like every policy the left does to help the poor, etc always backfires and actually makes things worse for them. It happens time and time again.

Makes it pretty clear what the real intention is, huh?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Makes it pretty clear what the real intention is, huh?

California fast food workers "we got a raise!"

Two months later "I got laid off!?!?"

Imbeciles

 

[Independent thinker]

Makes it pretty clear what the real intention is, huh?

I prefer to bury my head in the sand and believe that the left are just plain stupid beyond infinity.

 

[marvin martian]

California fast food workers "we got a raise!"

Two months later "I got laid off!?!?"

Imbeciles

Rinse and repeat. The California government has done this to workers over and over again, and they fall for it every time.

 

[WEATHER53]

Try shooting for a life as something other than a burger flipper instead of imposing an artificially high $20 government dictated wage

 

[ChemEngineer]

10,000 employees fired thanks to People's Republic of California craziness.

Keep the exodus going, Lefties. That's the ticket.

Why not raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour and "eliminate poverty"??

California Loses Nearly 10,000 Fast-Food Jobs After $20 Minimum Wage Signed Last Fall

At the time of publication, the author cited data reported by the Wall Street Journal, and interpreted those data as being seasonally adjusted. Following publication, those data were identified as not being seasonally adjusted, the article has been retracted to avoid any misinformation that can...

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[Sparker]

California's extreme requirements that raise the cost of construction push the food service industry out of buildings into food trucks. Owner-operators without staff avoid all the issues of employee requirements. But now there are tightening and more expensive regulations on what they can drive. That may leave only vending machines.