The minimum wage machine

[DmonSlyr]

http://imgur.com/gallery/m68hwSo

check this out haha. Just puts it into perspective for you how garbage minimum wage is in our country. 

[Lusche]

how garbage minimum wage is in our country.

Which one? Bishop, Knight or Rook? 

[SIK1]

If you don't like working for minimum wage go to school, and learn something. Or you could work your way up from pee-on to master. Put forth the effort to improve your own life. But for cripes sakes don't stand around whining how you can't survive on minimum wage. If all you qualify for is minimum wage jobs and you're not some kid out of high school then you let yourself down and raising the minimum wage isn't going to fix that.

[Squire]

Wow...so if you are not paid a living wage you must be an ignorant, lazy, uneducated welfare bum...but wait...maybe you can fight for one of the few

master

positions. Cool.

Don't worry though some good jobs are on the way:

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/20/ford-plants-mexico-official/

[branch37]

Sure you may have to start out at minimum wage, but if you put in an honest effort and become good at what you do, you will move up and earn more money.  I know I did.  I started out working for minimum wage in high school, and now make a decent wage because I learned a skill, and became somewhat good at it. 

[The Fugitive]

Minimum wage is where you START, much like everyone else. Where you go from there is COMPLETELY up to you. Be lazy and squeak and moan instead of doing your job, and minimum is all you'll get. Shut up and do your job to best of your ability and then some and you move up to better jobs, and better pay.

Your ENTITLED to nothing. You EARN what you get. PERIOD.

[SPKmes]

If you get in quick you can make a machine to turn the crank sit back and enjoy a passive income

[Squire]

See Rule #14

[PR3D4TOR]

It's not an effective argument for raising the minimum wage at all. It shows the laziness of people, and their selfishness. The most recent (2013) review of the evidence, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, on the relationship between minimum wage laws and unemployment states, “…the evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a tradeoff of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that policymakers need to bear this tradeoff in mind when making decisions about increasing the minimum wage.”

There should be no minimum wage.

[Copprhed]

See Rule #14

[SysError]

LOL

Here is a friend of some here




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUCILq6J2yU

[Serenity]

Minimum wage is where you START, much like everyone else. Where you go from there is COMPLETELY up to you. Be lazy and squeak and moan instead of doing your job, and minimum is all you'll get. Shut up and do your job to best of your ability and then some and you move up to better jobs, and better pay.

Your ENTITLED to nothing. You EARN what you get. PERIOD.

Yep. My first job was in high-school, as a janitor making minimum wage, working only 15 hours a week. My second job was a grocery store cashier where I started at $9/hr and by the time I left, was at $10 (A year later). After that (while still in college) I was doing promotions starting at $15 an hour, and by the end of the year, I was at $27/hr. All of that before even the degree. Now I'm on salary doing nicely. Certainly there are unforeseen circumstances which may hold you back, and many businesses which won't pay you more than they absolutely have to, but those aren't businesses you want to STAY with. Earn some experience for your resume, and find a company paying more.

[PR3D4TOR]

...the majority of employers must be forced to pay a living wage.

Disregarding the immorality of using force to extort money from people, that is a great way of getting jobs outsourced to a foreign country.

[Ripsnort]

What copprhead is saying is the financial culture of the world has changed. More competition overseas forces American businesses to be more competitive and that starts and ends with paying resources cheaper wages. If it's not HERE, it's over THERE.

You would do the same if you crunched the numbers in your own business and a bean counter said "Hey, we can get the same labor force, producing the same product, in China, for 1/2 the wage price"

It is NOT corporate greed, it's a matter of common sense in a capitalistic business world.

So, in essence, our USA, as predicted in the late 20th century, is slowly transforming into a Service Industry payroll with min wage jobs while the jobs requiring education move overseas.

[Aspen]

Life gets better when you realize that turning the crank faster spits out more money.