1. You are agreeing with me that it is cheaper to use self-serve pumps than to hire and pay a teenager to pump gas. That is the point, after all.Here's a question even the terminally uninformed should be able to answer.And that is why I've always maintained that the only way to raise the MW without causing pain is to keep it low enough that it doesn't really matter. Sure, we could raise it to $8 or $8.50/hr without too much impact, but go to $15/hr overnight Uh, you missed the truth again. You see, there is no proposal to raise the minimum wage OVERNIGHT. Rather it is proposed to be raised in steps over years. and bad things would happen. Your opinion. Do you think being able to provide for your family is a bad idea? And, no matter what you do to it, within a short period of time the economy would absorb it and you would be right back where you started with the same group of people making the same complaints and insisting on the same remedy, only this time using bigger numbers. And, while this is going on, more and more jobs would disappear. Like they never have before when minimum wage has increased. Ever wonder why Grandpa talks about pulling into a gas station where a young man would run out, check his oil $125and water levels, wash his windshield, and pump his gas while you have to do all that yourself? Funny. I am the grandpa. I used to be the young guy pumping the gas and checking the oil. For about $1.25 per hour for the oil company that was rich, and the station owners who lived like kings. And I saw that the technology allowed them to stop pumping gas, me boy. Those pumps that take cash or credit cards cause my type of job to be obsolete. Suggesting it was the minimum wage just proves you are really ignorant.That is true. In addition, consider that some 60% of American workers earn $20/hr or less. Raise the MW overnight to $15/hr and all those workers would demand a raise. I mean, who is going to tolerate going from making more than twice the MW to making just a few dollars more? In the short term, the job market would be chaos. In the long term, inflation would absorb the increase, prices would rise to accommodate it, and the same crowd would be back again, demanding another increase to $50/hr.
Heck, if raising the MW drastically would have only a positive impact, why not just raise it to $100/hr and eliminate poverty altogether?
Are you serious? Are you of the simple mindset that if something is good, then more is always better? Here i the thing, it turns out to NEVER work that way. Never, me boy. And only a really stupid person would believe that.
So, if raising the minimum wage will obviously hurt the rest of us, and the economy, then that must have happened over the many times it has been raised since the minimum wage was started in the 1930's. Want to show me when that has EVER been the case, or do you just want to continue making unsubstantiated claims. Or are you simply a con who likes to push con talking points, but has no ability to research a question and find truth.
Do you simply prefer to be told what to believe. Looks that way to me.
I did the work, cleaned their floors, changed tires, did minor tune up work, and so on. And watched as the prices the oil companies got for gas went from .30 per gallon to over $4.50 per gallon. You really need to get a grip, perhaps research the subject. Blaming minimum wage makes you look stupid.
When a company has a job that needs to be done, which option will it take?
1. Buy a machine that can do the job well, takes no time off and has no attitude issues.
2. Hire a human that costs more than the machine, takes time off, and has attitude issues.
Here is an answer to your terminally stupid question:
Simple enough. he will do what costs the least. Which says, me boy, he will hire a person at a wage which will not allow the person to live, or he will buy the machine. Which is why there are no jobs left to pump gas. Even the terminally uninformed know that. Sorry you missed it.
Rising the MW simply makes automation more economically viable, which replaces more expensive humans. If the gas station could hire a human to pump gas and check the oil for LESS than the cost of a self-serve pump, it would. And why again does the human cost more than the machine? Be honest.
Simple, but really ignorant question. Have an intelligent phone? Think for a minute. If you are capable. The technology of the self serve pump has increased by the cost of the electronics. Now, you try to be honest, if possible.
1. Do you really think that anyone can work for what they used to prior to automated gas pumps????
2. Look around. See any gas pump attendant?
3. Did you notice that those attendants were long ago phased out?
4. The gas station owners profits have been squeezed to near starvation levels.
5. The oil companies were making record profits, prior to the oil glut over the past couple years.
Blaming minimum wage for automated gas stations is close to the stupidest thing I have seen anyone suggest. Really, really stupid.
Now, here is a hard one, I am afraid, for you. What does all that have to do with minimum wage?
And please, if you are capable, spend a bit of time with google. and try to find an impartial source that suggests that raising the minimum wage has ever done what you say it will do. Best of luck with that.
2. When have we ever doubled the MW in a handful of years?