There are also relatively repetitive "soft skills" jobs that I think will hold on. Many people will be willing to pay a modest premium to have a faux-social experience with a human being. Target knows this, that's why their training materials instruct employees to try to treat customers like friends and act like Target is a home-like environment.

Which means that it's the people who are traditionally placed "in the back of the store" or get locked up in the kitchen are the ones who will really get crushed here.

We will all be replaced in 10 years.

$15/hour * 40 hours/week * 50 weeks/year * 2 people/household = $60,000

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/mini...rkers-2014.pdf

Per the above government labor study, around 3.9% of workers paid an hourly wage get paid at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour, and even less of the workforce when you include everyone paid on a non-hourly basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Househ..._United_States

BUT, per this article, 54.2% of American households make under $60,000/year, meaning not only would it be a disaster to increase the wages of everyone actually making minimum wage or below to the proposed new minimum wage, it would be compounded by the fact that we would have to somehow raise the wages of everyone making between the current minimum wage and the proposed new maximum, which amounts to nearly half of the workforce. Where would that money come from? It would have to come by stealing from/taxing everyone else (who are already overtaxed), destroying innovation, productivity and it would kill any potential benefit of going to college, even for stem majors, meaning the education level would be drastically reduced. If that isn't enough, even if we somehow raised everyone's salary to $60,000/year, that STILL wouldn't take into account the differences between the current minimum wage workers and the other 50% of workers. Do they deserve to make the same as a line cook? If not, how do we pay to differentiate them from the minimum wage workers?

I understand the fact that the percentage of people paid minimum wage only takes workers paid hourly into account, and that I'm using a two person income to calculate household income when not every household has two earners, and this means my numbers aren't exact, but they at least paint a picture of how badly this law would mess everything up.

Makes sense to me. With hiring costs and turnover and just the hassle of a min wage person, a machine makes a lot more sense than a $15 an hour person. Since when is this type of job worth 15 an hour? If you can't make ends meet on min wage then work harder and get a better job. America is continuing to cater to the weird and stupid people at the expense of the normal folks. Raising this will definitely raise costs and has huge ripples across the economy.

Western Europe used to be like this a long time ago, but the people realized that the system only benefited the rich and that they were being cucked hard. They formed unions, went on strikes and fought for their rights, and it payed off. Today, europeans enjoy 40 hr work weeks, paid overtime, 4+ weeks of paid vacations, paid maternity leave, paid sick leave and a high standard of living.

Meanwhile, americans are clinging onto the fantasy that only the government is evil while the billionaires and corporations are kind and not really that different from themselves, and that if they keep slaving away and believing in Jesus, they too will become super rich. Any problems they face in their lives are solely due to mexicans, blacks, women, the government etc...anyone but the billionaires and corporations.

lol @ them using raising minimum wage as a copout. machines are cheaper than workers period; however prices remain the same

uh people go there cause its cheap. people think they can triple the wage of the workers and the money to do it will fall from the sky. farking retarded. In liberal fantasy land, all the mc donald workers live in mcmansions and hamburgers are still $1.

While I find this hilarious in some ways, the government will just pay all those McDonalds lifers more in welfare- so we end up paying for it anyway. If they don't get welfare and/or welfare is reduced, it will just lead to more crime.