This is what happens when you increase your minimum income to $25/hr. Burgers will cost $30.
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Something like McDonalds is an extravagant purchase these days for a reason, frankly it always was. Can't say I'll miss it as a convenience, better truly to make your own food - even going hungry for a little is better overall. Fastfood is a glamourized bad habit. Ain't gonna miss it.
In the defense of fastfood, it is not glamourized. When ever I order, it feels like a defeat.
True. Feels like a lot of people try to make a necessity of it though, despite something like $5-10 before still adding up to an extravagant cost and being ridiculously unhealthy.
I still remember when I was a kid in the 90s, in my post-commie country, and American fast foods first got here. The food there was about 2-3 times more expensive than it was at other, more local establishments. People were treating the cardboard burgers like luxury.
I guess that's what it is in Switzerland roughly?
You can already see the effects of raising the wages in the US too, despite it not being required. Things that rely on cheap labor in particular are way up. Food is the one I notice the most. I try to tell the people that would have been getting $8-$10 an hour that they still can't live on their newfound $18 an hour because everything else is more expensive too, but they don't understand.
I went and looked for curiosity sake and the apartment I moved in about 12 years ago in Texas has more than doubled in rent from what I paid over that 12 years. You know what though, that apartment wasn't priced for McDonald's order takers to live alone then, and it still isn't. Get roommates and work yourself up, it's not all that hard. Jobs are about as easy as school now, 80% is just showing up on time and regularly. But oh wait, your passion is the arts and you shouldn't have to do a real job.
AI Art printer goes BRR...
I had two buddies that ran businesses in the same city and rough area of town: A pizzeria and a small apartment complex. When they raised minimum to $15 in the city, the first thing the pizzeria guy did was cut back on hours/let people go. He picked up more shifts himself, and it only took 1 person to run the shop at low times. The second thing was raise the price of pizza.
Next, the apartment owner raised the rent because the people that had jobs had more money. But eventually all the prices eventually caught up. The now-minimum wage workers had no appreciably more to show for it. It did sort of level off the low wages. Before, minimum wage was lower than what most people were getting. The minimum bumped them all up to $15 regardless of their previous wage and didn't support much $16 and $17 an hour, at least immediately.
Thomas Sowell tried to warn you
Minimum wage was created to keep immigrants from being able to undercut native, white workers.
Glad to see nothing has changed, only now they call it "unions".
Only sort of. That still relied on the idea that whites, as a race, shouldn't do low pay work, despite that's exactly what plenty of poor whites and young whites need. (Along with anyone else)
White wouldn't need to do "low pay work" if governments were flying in turd-world immigrants by the plane-fulls into the country to drive down the price of labor to rock bottom.
No, you've got it a bit backwards. They drive down wages for higher paid work, not the low paid stuff.
They're actually trying to drive down the prices of blue-collar "low paid" work, but importing vast quantities of poor people and giving them welfare doesn't help with that, so Americans cutting your grass will absolutely run you $300.
Illegal immigration also sprung up to circumvent minimum wage.
I always find it funny when people ask for higher minimum wage and then are surprised when they have less purchasing power.
In my country it's even easier to notice just by looking at the taxes on salaries.
You have the portion the worker pays but also an extra the business pays (that I assume most people aren't even aware of)
So a business pays 123.75% for the worker to get something like 80%.
And then they still don't understand how just increasing minimum wage every year is making more people dependent on the state.
And this is only the most direct taxes on salary. It would be hilarious if it wasn't such a sad state of affairs
Yeah, no. Wages rose in response to inflation. The inflation was caused by a combination of money printing and green energy policy. They want you to blame low-wage labor because 1) they want to avoid culpability for the failure of their own policies and 2) they are looking for any pretext to attack the middle and working classes via rate hikes.
The problem isn’t the little people refusing to work for minimum wage after the government has cut your buying power in half with their radical leftist policy decisions. The problem is those governments and their ideologies.
Switzerland doesnt have minimum wage. So without additional information where this is, this is moot.
Not to mention that it includes "hummus" and "avocado bread". That is a degenerate hipster place, so of course shit is expensive as fuck.
This is a really expensive steakhouse, so I am not at all surprised by those prices.
The sick thing about fast food is that it's become such an important part in so many people's lives, they will still pay for it. It's not like gas where it's fucking necessary for day to day life. This is just a drug addiction.
And eight fucking dollars to add chicken to your salad!
Burgers?
Le burger. It reads like an airport menu
Or somewhere that is overly priced for the type of food, like a hotel.