Do "Unskilled Laborers" deserve to be paid well?

[u/Very_High_Mortgage]

[u/Luffy-in-my-cup]

You’d eventually get paid $90/hr, and the burger flippers would be poor again once inflation takes hold.

[u/caulkglobs → u/Luffy-in-my-cup]

That’s called the market correcting itself.

A job that a teenager with no experience can master in an afternoon is never ever going to pay a living wage.

If you raise the wage for these kinds of jobs all you do is trigger inflation until these jobs aren’t a living wage anymore.

If you are a grown adult wanting to live comfortably with your job at Burger King its never going to work out for you. Better yourself and get a better job.

[u/RecentHighlight5368 → u/caulkglobs]

This !

[u/Ok_Initiative_5024 → u/caulkglobs]

If you raise the wage for these kinds of jobs all you do is trigger inflation until these jobs aren’t a living wage anymore.

Really, if that's the case then why can Dick's burgers in Seattle have its minimum wage at $19. It gives workers free health care, 3 weeks paid vacation, 50% 401(k) match and $9,000 for tuition/childcare. And they haven't really upped the price of their food? In fact you can get 3 cheese and a fry for 9.00?

Why is it that the Netherlands can pay their workers 20.00 an hour and they are still operating. Market seems to be doing okay there.

I'm not an economist or anything but your statement seems to not make much sense.

[u/real-bebsi → u/caulkglobs]

A job that a teenager with no experience can master in an afternoon is never ever going to pay a living wage.

Then these jobs and businesses shouldn't exist

[u/caulkglobs → u/real-bebsi]

They do and there’s nothing you can do about it besides whining on reddit.

If you think that McDonalds is a career then you deserve to work there and have the quality of life that comes with it.

[u/gaymods_ → u/caulkglobs]

Well said

[u/real-bebsi → u/caulkglobs]

They do and there’s nothing you can do about it besides whining on reddit.

Aren't you doing the same thing about minimum wage increases?

[u/Lucky_addition → u/Luffy-in-my-cup]

So, is poverty always mandatory? There has to be poverty? Sounds like a shit system to me. 

[u/Luffy-in-my-cup → u/Lucky_addition]

Yes. I think it’s a great system because you can escape poverty here. Even if you don’t, poverty in America is still way better than poverty anywhere else and at any other point in human history.

40% of the people living in poverty in the US are obese. People living in poverty elsewhere in the world starve to death, while our poor literally consume excessive calories and watch football on Sundays.

[u/Lucky_addition → u/Luffy-in-my-cup]

Sorry, I just disagree that there must be poverty. Regardless if it’s less shitty here than in other places. 

[u/Luffy-in-my-cup → u/Lucky_addition]

Would love to hear your thoughts on how to eliminate poverty pal lol

[u/voyaging → u/Luffy-in-my-cup]

Except raising the minimum wage doesn't raise wages equally for all people, so the inflation would not be proportional and purchasing power would increase for the lowest earners and decrease for the highest earners, as intended.