America has an interesting method for ensuring high work with low pay: risk of joblessness.
The idea of "If you don't work hard for this small amount, you'll be fired right now." Is alot of motivation. America motivates with fear, not reward. 'Tis the American way.
As if working at McDonald's is hard work.
I worked at McDonalds. Only job I quit due to stress. Definitely harder work than I do now (IT support). Why?
The rush. The cleaning. The constant "time to lean, time to clean" mentality. Seriously, you must ALWAYS do something. Lull in customers? Clean. Store all clean? Clean it again.
I worked night shift for 2 of 5 days. Fucking hell was that Hell. Imagine mopping the bathroom and suddenly hearing the loudest fucking buzzer in your ear. All the while half asleep. Yeah, it fucking sucked. Then you take the order, make the food, and ya gotta do it quick. What? An order for 20 burgers? Still 5 minutes bitch.
So yes, it is fucking hard work. Its not "rocket science" hard or "I'm gonna pick strawberries in the sun" hard but still hard.
This.
Working fucking sucks!
FTFY as it more distinctly states your (and all the rest here) attitude and mindset in crying, "GIVE ME FREE SHIT!"
It's complicated and you, for whatever reason, want it black & white, and think low income wage jobs are a cake walk. You are wrong.
I know working in a restaurant isn't a cake walk. I also know, unlike you and the rest of the peanut gallery, that it isn't a $15 a job.
It simply boils down to all of you morans arguing for more money, while decrying those who already have more money.
Like I wrote earlier, if you take all the money in the world and divide it equally among everybody, within one's week time, those who had the most money will have the most money again.
Knowing how and willing to do the work is key.
Well if you made everyone have the same money in a capitalist system, money would be rendered useless. Captislism has its pros and cons and one of the cons is that it requires people to be in poverty so others can deem themselves rich
However that doesn't mean THE BEST AND GREATEST COUNTRY EVER should have minimum wages that are simply not 'livable'. Some of the lowest paid jobs are the lynch pins that keep society ticking. Again, if you widen the wealth gap too much you have a deeply impoverished society which
will hurt the upper class eventually. If you cant see that, you're just an idiot
Australias minimum wage is currently $19.84 per hour or $753.80 per week which works out to be just shy of $40K per year. Even that is dismally low and unlike America we don't have the pressure to pay for private health insurance. Hell, I only pay $6 a month to cover the family for Ambulance cover. I'll let medicare take care of the rest because anything that is an emergency, is covered by default.
So imagine being in America, earning $7.25 an hour slaving for 40 hours a week so you get $290. With that you need to pay for accommodation, tax, food, health care, medical etc
What is left over to save? Why must that person work another job to make ends meet? Why would a person that has next to NO disposable income be good for society? If he has no disposable income, they are not going out to eat at a restaurant, they are not buying things in shops, they aren't stimulating the economy.
It may also have the unwanted effect of driving up crime and disdain for society. Yeah, how great is America when swaths of your own population cant afford to live with any dignity or have to work crushing hours in multiple jobs to make ends meet
If the last time your minimum wage was looked at was in 2009, surely you would agree that if $7.25 was deemed 'ok' back then (probably not though), then thanks to inflation, it is not ok now and should at least be adjusted
I know you like to troll and you just come here to say stupid provocative things because your life is sad and you need 'TOLAUGH' but damn if this is how you get your rocks off, you're pretty sad.
Only a fool wishes his countrymen to be impoverished
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