The enslaving of the poor ..... for $15.00

• sleeper

  

  Ytowngirlinfla;1744602 wrote:Yeah keep lying to yourself.

  Don't worry your benefits are safe. It's politically untouchable.
• like_that

  

  That $15 minimum wage is going to improve the quality of life for that one employee lucky enough to stay on...
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html?hpid=z1
• Belly35

  

  like_that;1746148 wrote:That $15 minimum wage is going to improve the quality of life for that one employee lucky enough to stay on...
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html?hpid=z1

  the usage of table top kiosk is the beginning at many franchise operations now, soon we will see large kiosk at fast food operation. Within two years your dinning pleaser will be push button ordering system, delivery waiter or waitress, no tipping required and request for more bread sticks via push button kiosk. At the end of the dinning pleasure / fast food take out well require a swipe of your credit card or club card discount.
  
  Just think less workers per operation, no full time 40 hours workers, less part time employment oppertuities, operation worker base will be cut by 2/3, less overhead more profit...
  
  Here the real kicker... Without a credit/debit account ( many of the poor don't have) they can't enjoy eating out... Credit card only transaction business.
• like_that

  

  Belly35;1746185 wrote:the usage of table top kiosk is the beginning at many franchise operations now, soon we will see large kiosk at fast food operation. Within two years your dinning pleaser will be push button ordering system, delivery waiter or waitress, no tipping required and request for more bread sticks via push button kiosk. At the end of the dinning pleasure / fast food take out well require a swipe of your credit card or club card discount.
  
  Just think less workers per operation, no full time 40 hours workers, less part time employment oppertuities, operation worker base will be cut by 2/3, less overhead more profit...
  
  Here the real kicker... Without a credit/debit account ( many of the poor don't have) they can't enjoy eating out... Credit card only transaction business.

  Service at restaurants is still important. I have a hard time seeing restaurants (at least the good ones) go the way of technology when it comes to service. Fast food for sure. You don't even need to spend money on kiosks. You can just develop an app for people to order off their devices.
• Tiernan

  I'm still trying to figure out what a "dinning pleaser" might be?
• Belly35

  

  Tiernan;1746211 wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what a "dinning pleaser" might be?

  Spelling error, small key board, big fingers and really don't give a fuck... your read it and you understood it ... eat shit and die mofo..
• BRF

  

  Belly35;1746238 wrote: ... eat shit and die mofo..

  Thanks for providing the laugh of the day for me!
  
  Nice thread, Belly......10 pages of shit on my iPad.
• QuakerOats

  Raising the minimum wage in the city of St. Louis wouldn't solve the underlying problem of high unemployment and it could make it worse, writes Alderman Antonio French, who voted against a citywide minimum wage increase this week. "St. Louis city has the highest rate of concentrated poverty in the region. That poverty is driven by high unemployment, not low wages. There are more people in St. Louis city that have no job at all than work for the current minimum wage," he writes. The St. Louis American (8/26)
  
  
  
  
  He is precisely correct.
• HitsRus

  

  Very simple strategy....dependency = votes.
• BoatShoes

  HitsRus;1747411 wrote:Very simple strategy....dependency = votes.

  Very simply incorrect.
  
  The most financially independent voting blocks - Asians, Jews and highly educated professionals - are just as much of the base of the Democratic party as the poor.
• HitsRus

  

  Never said they weren't.
• isadore

  and gosh a ruddies what would make people less dependent, a fair salary which a higher minimum wage would help to secure.
• HitsRus

  

  What about the ones who lose their jobs?
• BoatShoes

  HitsRus;1747576 wrote:What about the ones who lose their jobs?

  Provide capital to entrepreneurs to hire them at a minimum wage below the prevailing private sector wage in an employer of last resort program through the non-profit sector with zero new gubmint employees.
  
  Cheaper than welfare and private charity for the poor.
  
  Moreover we can replace the floor of unemployment and poverty with gainful employment and socially valuable production and when we work to raise the wage floor we do not have to worry about people becoming unemployed against their will.
  
  Problem solved by a market for the unemployed and marginally employable.
• isadore

  HitsRus;1747576 wrote:What about the ones who lose their jobs?

  better than working for slave labor wages that are inflicted on them. Paid a wage set below the poverty level
• QuakerOats

  Governor OKs wage increase for N.Y. restaurant chains
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially approved a $15 minimum wage for quickservice chain employees on Thursday, to be phased in over the next six years. The increase was the result of a recommendation by a board appointed by the governor, which drew objections from Republican state senators and members of the restaurant industry. "By executive fiat, with the stroke of a pen, our financial model goes to pot," said Ben & Jerry's franchisee Pat Pipino. MSNBC (9/10), American City Business Journals/Albany, N.Y. (9/10)
  
  
  
  
  It is simply stunning the massive overreach of BIG liberal government. The incredible ignorance of the Left is on full display. You will not hear from the media over time about the hundreds/thousands of restaurants that will close throwing thousands of people out of work.
  
  We have elected the enemy.