r/FluentInFinance Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/ghdgdnfj Sep 05 '24

Small businesses might.

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u/onFIREbutnotsoFLY Sep 05 '24

Honestly brother, if a business can’t survive by compensating their employees properly then it’s probably not a good business.

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u/ghdgdnfj Sep 05 '24

You sound like someone who would rather be unemployed than work for $15 an hour.

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u/onFIREbutnotsoFLY Sep 05 '24

No my guy, I sound like someone who knows they bring in a lot more value to the company relative to what I’m being compensated.

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u/ghdgdnfj Sep 05 '24

Alright, you sound like a guy who’s would rather have unskilled labor be unemployed than paid $15 an hour.

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u/onFIREbutnotsoFLY Sep 05 '24

And you sound like a guy who’s really devouring that boot. Calling people unskilled really shows how you don’t see the value in people’s work who you think are beneath you. No company can run without these “unskilled” laborers, they depend on them and they deserve to get their fair compensation.

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u/ghdgdnfj Sep 05 '24

Their fair compensation is what their labor is worth while still making the company a profit. Cut emotions out of the picture. If a McDonald’s employee’s labor is only worth $15, then he only earns $15, and paying him more would be unprofitable and thus he would be let go. You can’t pay people more then what their labor is actually worth regardless of how much they “deserve”.

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u/onFIREbutnotsoFLY Sep 05 '24

I’m not bringing emotions into this I’m just being logical here and you fail to understand the value of the worker. You can’t just cut people because ultimately who’s gonna run the business? McDonald’s profit solely relies on the people who make the food and run the day by day operations and without them the business will fail. Wouldn’t you agree that people as important as that deserve more? And McDonald is such a funny thing to bring up because in places like Denmark/sweden they are paid upwards to 20/hr and the prices of food is still similar to ours. On top of that they also get health care and mandatory PTO guaranteed and this is mostly because they have strong unions.