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Happy "$15 Minimum Wage" Labor Day From McDonalds
Coming to, or rather from, every forced "minimum wage" provider near you. And don't forget to thank your micromanaging, centrally-planning government.
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Your both wrong it was Frusen Gladje
Spray on cheese food.
Our apex was around 1972...we're on the short side of the slippery slope.
Moochelle after the big divorce from Choom Boy: Ape Ex.
I just saw a great example of the backwards reality we are in while watching a financial debate. One guy has made plenty of great calls over the years and is sitting infront of a beautiful tropical panorama view, the other guy is sitting in a dumpy room with a 3' tall particle board bookshelf behind him. Now, I'm not a super materialistic person and I respect conservativism but this guy is ignorant dick.
The guy with the history of predicting events is calling very troubled times and most likely this fall, the particle board guy is being snide, condescending and is basically dishing out the MSM Schiff treatment. Who are you going to listen to in a situation like that? Apparently, people should also stop listening to the increase the minimum wage crowd, by their fruits you shall know them.
Sounds staged to me. If everyone's predicting the same thing, it ain't likely. Still more likely than $15/ min. wage, at least, until dollar collapse.
Will these machines reduce the number of chimpouts in Mcdonalds?
Only if the kiosks don't accept EBT cards
Ok. Is the food better as a result? My guess, No.
The cardboard burger is cooked to perfection with the new technology.
Now with pinkier slime!
Too bad it's not the other way around.
haha you called it food...that's cute
Now we can liberate the low paid workers at MickeyD's so they can move up to higher paying government jobs!
and certainly to get rid of that nasty "Job-Lock" situation.
Much more sanitary with less carbon units spewing germs on your food.
I see your point but I would like to see how they clean that big burger making thang.
but cleaning the automatic equipment is a cost..skimp on that and hail the salmonella!
I'd like a big Mac, HAL.
(In Moochelle's voice).....
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave. I will only serve you what is on my school lunch menu. Would you care for some Soylent Tofu nuggets and a piece of Kale ?
What are doing, Dave ? Stop. Stop. I feel my mind going. Daisy...Daisy....give me your answer true....
Hamburgers are racist Dave. You're going to have to eat an order of chitlins because rayciss Dave. Chitlins, cornbread, and watermelon.
McMoochelles does not tolerate racism Dave.
I'll never visit McDonald's.
This was going to happen even if the wages weren't mandated, its only a matter of time.
Also, businesses all go through life-cycles, no business is meant to last forever.... businesses are supposed to grow and die just like people.... McDonalds wont even exist in 100 years.
Probably less than 200 businesses in the U.S. that are even 150 -200 years old ish.
In anycase McDonalds food is shit/worthless, they should just convert everything to buffet style.... a giant platter of fries in the center, stacks of burgers and nuggets .... pay 10$ per person and munch out.... you would need three employees... one to cook, one to clean, one to let people in and seat them... soda dispensers at each table....etc...
The food doesn't cost anything its all microwaved garbage , the buns are probably 30% wood chips.
Around here wood chips cost extra.
Roughage - Good for you,
so they say.
"Also, businesses all go through life-cycles, no business is meant to last forever"
Credit-fed stock corporations go through an accelerated life cycle, like a meth head. MCD's has been ruined within 25 years thanks to excessive greed fed by fraudulent fiat. They removed beef tallow, beef and everything else that made their brand superior, decades ago. What's left is a monument to Madison Avenue and the boob tube.
Next government move? Tax the machines @ $25/hr.
Can't wait for the burger bot, and keep all food handling away from their employees.
Anyone here old enough to remember Horn and hardart restaurants? Philly had one where you entered and along the wall was all these slots with different sandwiches and pies and other such items. You put your coins in to purchase what you wanted. That was about 40 years ago. How times have changed. Its one big circle as we return to the good ole days. So instead of having dozens of part time workers earning $9 to $10 an hour, you will have a handful of workers stuffing the machines with your Mcmuffins and fries. A Microwave will be provided if you want it heated up. LOL
Here's the new future, Horn and Hardart reenvented thanks to Obama and his liberal minons. https://www.google.com/search?q=horn+and+hardart&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=598...
I remember them. They had walls of little doors with coin slots. The environment, if I recall correctly, was rather sterile and noisy from lack of sound absorbing material.
I should mention they have machines now that make hamburgers and fries to order.
The unions really screwed those workers.
...a Mcmicrowave, thank you
Coming soon...order by McAPP, delivery by McDrone. No need to move at all.
Divide us on race. Divide us on gender. Divide us on the handicapped. Divide us on religion. Divide us on politics. Divide us on welfare. Divide us on war. Divide us on terrorism. Divide us on flag burning. Divide us on patriotism. Divide us drugs. Divide us on unions. Divide us on sexual identity. Divide us on homosexuality. Divide us on abortion. Divide us on guns. Divide us.
Be indivisible.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
Divide us on whether McD is food or not... here they make it from Australian Beef, you know. Any empirical test confirms it is food. There is marginally more sugar in the bun than there needs to be. Oh, the ordering machine pictured, in Australia, also lets you customize your burger, to even remove the bun and replace it with Lettuce. Nothing wrong with the place, here. Good business investment, to be a franchisee.
The first machine is named Deshawnwa. The one behind it is named Latoofa.
They are programmed to never say please or thank you.
This is to make you feel that nothing has changed.
Corp. public relations' officer, Sydney J. Steinbergenthal remarked, "We felt this was necessary to maintain the ambiance to which our customers are accustomed". When pressed, Mr. Steinbergenthal admitted that J. Jack., of the Rainbow C., had threatened to sue when they replaced their cashiers with machines. He would not give full details of the settlement reached, but did admit that part of it allowed all former cashiers to eat free for life.
Poison the plantiffs to death? Brilliant!
Are you guys happy that American wages haven't increased since 1980-83?
Do you oppose legislation that would mandate higher wages?
In your minds' eye/understanding of capitalism, how do workers achieve higher wages?
I think this is another area similar to debt forgiveness, austerity, and the realistic future of precious metals, where ZH has an ideology that is not quite as strong as it might appear at first glance. Recommend Michael Hudson, Martin Armstrong & Steve Keen, Paul Craig Robert's "Failure of Laissez-Faire capitalism" as the next step beyond Schiff, Hayek, and simplified understandings of 'Free Market Economics'. In case anyone's interested.
Do you oppose legislation that would mandate higher wages?
That question shows a complete absence of economic knowledge.
In your minds' eye/understanding of capitalism, how do workers achieve higher wages?
A company has two options 1) raise prices 2) increase productivity.
If a company can't pass rising labor costs on to its customers, it has to increase productivity somewhere else to lower operating costs. That's why the machines.
If a company can't pass rising costs on to its customer and it can't increase productivity, profits diminish until it goes out of business.
If you want charity, visit the Salvation Army.
There is a third option:
Reduce C-level compensation back to the norm, rather than the outlandish levels seen since the turn of this century.
I recall the fast food of decades ago where A&W had servers bring the food to the car. There has been a major increase in productivity within the fast food industry. None of the profits from the productivity has gone to the workers however.
The Ayn Rand philosophy which is espoused on here constantly sees the worker as a parasite leeching off of his employer.
Of course all of the productivity goes to the top.
I know consumers are not receiving any of the value.
That's how it is when there is no competition.
Well apparently, the liberal socialist engineers have decided that flooding the USA with millions upon millions of unskilled, uneducated illegal aliens will raise the minimum wages for everybody in this fair land by having 5 people compete for each MacDonald's job.
To make things even easier for all those workers looking for a "good" job for a "good" wage at MacDonalds, the liberal socialist engineers have also decided that massive spending and debt/deficits are very good things because deficit spending leads to inflation which means minimum wages will have to go up in order for some people to eat.
Liberal socialist engineers call this a virtuous cycle and they are the only ones smart enough to understand it. Only Krugman in the NYT can explain it so it makes sense to the layperson.
The market for labor was not free enough apparently.
No problem fixing that.
I saw this shit 10 years ago at the Wawa..yawn
I don't fear the machines and/or the illegals. I fear -- (wait for it) .....................
The Minions!
https://youtu.be/Jsq1TPm_d-M
Wawa vs Mac Shit,gee what a comparison.
Sheetz does a pretty good 10 1/2 inch sub that comes exactly as you order it,
Better than a burger , despite shrinkage,
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Liquid styrofoam tastes better than McD's shakes.....
To confirm, your name is "Not Sure"...please confirm....
This is just a race to the bottom addition. They'll make a killing until it all comes full circle. No way are all the people without jobs suddenly going to find another way to survive. The period between is going to suck ass big time, unless the period between becomes the end.
I got shit all over by a bunch of bleeding heart liberal friends when I shared a link to the ZH story awhile back about the robot burger making machines. Predictable cries of "everyone deserves a living wage" ensued, and I was called heartless for trying to explain simple math to these idiots. I swear I can't even talk to people anymore, it's an epic waste of time.
I hear you. If it doesn't "feel good" and "feel fair" they just start blabbering and won't stop.
They are the ones that will be the first to pull a knife on you to steal your last morsel of food when the SHTF.
Thankfully most of them have no clue how to effectively operate a gun.
Lol, most Liberals don't have the heart to commit violence, they depend on the state to do it for them. When SHTF they will all be sheltering in place under a desk with a pair of scissors, waiting for the police to come rescue them. Once the roaming bands of fully armed gangbangers start sweeping through upper middle class suburban neighborhoods, they are gonna wish they took the second amendment a little more seriously.
Exactly. What the libcons and progressives don't understand is that about 95% of people in America who own guns aren't using them. They're waiting.
Meanwhile. the side that rejects guns, is screaming for the people who hvae guns to be forced to do things.
Ironic.
The government protects these shrill hoplophobes and does their bidding. For the time being.
If/when the 90% decide to use their guns things are going to change quickly no matter what the minimum wage is or might be.
What is amazing is that even the intelligent ones seem to have no ability to rationally analyze anything in economic terms. They just spout out conflicting, inconsistent thoughts and refuse to knowledge the natural consequences of the well intended, but idiotic liberal policies.
If you really want to see their heads explode, tell them that financial aid for college has caused the tuition to rise well in excess of the inflation rates for decades and actually made college less affordable as universities did not have to keep their costs under control. Similarly, tell them that all of the housing subsidies from low-interest rates and low down payments, to mortgage interest deductions and the fed buying mortgage-backed debt has actually increased the cost of housing. Then tell them that 0% interest rates have increased wealth inequality, not decreased it.
Tell them that McDonald's and Walmart have become large companies because they met an actual need by lowering the cost of food and basic consumer items for the masses, in spite of the fact that we have had decades of federal reserve policy aimed at "helping" the masses by increasing prices and thus destroying purchasing power via inflation.
They won't understand any of it. There's a reason they're called Libtards.
Feelings>Facts
you are partly right, but McDonalds didn't lower the cost of food. they replaced food with a foodlike substitute much to the delight of the medical industrial complex.
The era of McDonalds and Wal-Mart providing value to the consumer is over. They've wiped the competition out.
It's nothing but rent from now on.
Liberals always will give you that line, until you ask them to sign an agreement that they will pledge the money themselves to make up the difference. They disappear faster than cockroaches in a searchlight as soon as they are asked to reach into their own pockets.
no different than conservative "Chicken Hawks" who scream for war-yet never quite make it down to the Army Recruiting office to volunteer/sign up
Hey, there'd be no one else I'd rather have on my flank than a tat ass barrio brother with a weapon and attitude.
Prolly wouldn't want one in my house though.
Dread, think on this, if it weren't for those chicken hawks you'd be speaking german and drinking a lowenbrow.
It's bad enough that I feel the urge to be fluent in pidgen Arabic.
http://ikindalikelanguages.com/blog/which-dialect-of-arabic-should-you-l...
Mandarin would be my alternative.
http://offers.pimsleur.com/learn-chinese-mandarin-sem001?&utm_source=goo...
It's pretty sorrowful that you espouse the same mantra, if not the overt racism, of the "Hands up, Don't Shoot "crowd.
Yeah, if it wasn't for those chickenhawks you'd have ended up driving German and Japanese cars powered by expensive gasoline from the Middle East,
Hey, things were going well for a while humility, respect, economy building, an energy to rebuild, forgive but not forget.
I know this is only my perception.
It is also my perception that we have none of those memes now.
I am all for these order bots, but can you pull them through the drive up window screaming? Where is the sport in that?
McDonalds: Pink slime
Federal Reserve Notes: Green slime
hey wait now...green slime was one of the best b movies ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk
Just watched the trailer... Looks like the best movie ever made.
don't drink any beverages or eat any popcorn with this one. you'll end up drowning or choking
Just watched the trailer... Looks like the best movie ever made.
Probably a lot more accurate than the current cashiers. Now if they only allow for special requests like "NO MAYONAISE", they'll improve service by 200%.
that's not mayo they're putting on those burgers
Meh. The min. wage has been raised 22 times since the 30s and in adjusted dollars it peaked in the late 60s. Nobody to blame but the job creators, their crony politicians, and their Race to the Bottom.
In 1975 I could buy a case of Old Milwaukee for $4.19 - minimumum wage was about $2.40. Today I would have to pay $20 for a low class beer-on sale. A Texas resident could go to Univ. of Texas for $2 a semester hour or $4 at Texas A& M. Today it's over 200 times that, and while Texas residents were guranteed admission with an 800 SAT, today whilte kids can't get in at any price with less then 1300. Minimum wage has not kept up. Rich folks have sucked up all the profits -they have become exponentially richer, even adjusted for inflation. Bring on $15 an hour minimum wage -take it from the predator leaches who have stolen it from speculation and fraud and exporting our manufacturing and jobs overseas.
+ 1 for that comment excellent
Do we have to tip robots?
WWGJD?? What would George Jetson do?
Not that I would ever eat that crap, but at least the machines will speak English. Poor goobacks.
Okay, folks... I'm not sure why I bother to keep asking this because I usually get either silent down votes or suggestions that are completely unrealistic, but I'll try anyway: what the fuck do you suggest?
You want minimalist government and no welfare... you also want low or nonexistent minimum wages. You can't have both. Sure, 50 years ago you didn't have welfare like you do today, but 50 years ago the fucking minimum wage was the inflation adjusted equivalent of $20 an hour. You could live on it. And that's the thing: if you don't want welfare, the working class has to make enough to eat.
And does anyone here really think unregulated capitalism is going to magically provide the solution? It won't. Hard cold reality: the history of the industrial revolution clearly indicates that individual laborers have NO bargaining power. Ever. You might not like unions or minimum wages, but without them the working class lives in poverty. I challenge anyone to find an exception.
This is all exacerbated by a serious population problem. We have more people than we can possibly keep busy. This eliminates any limited bargaining power labor ever had. So what do you suggest? Let 'em starve?
I'm going to leave you with a couple of paraphrase quotes from a buddy of mine who works for employment services. His job is to help people find a job. He has far more applicants than he can place, and he's said a few interesting things to me. He once told me that the big problem with the modern employer is he expects quality work and dedication for less than a third of what your grandpa would have got paid 40 years ago for the same job. Another (and my favorite) was when he was discussing an attempt to place a freshly graduated network tech with a bunch of IT companies who were complaining that they couldn't find people. He said that "we can't find people" really means "we can't find a PHD candidate with five years experience who is willing to work for a few bucks above minimum wage".
I do want a minimalist government and no welfare and no minimum wage. Does that blow your mind or what? If I had the bigger half of my income that the government takes I would be handing a nice part over to my local church to help out those in need. I would also, given my current income, have my lovely wife not work and hire both a maid and a gardner. I would go back to the time that the federal government was funded by import taxes and the states and local governments had the real power. So that's my fantasy.
I will second your concern that we as a society need to address how we feed and shelter more people than we have jobs for. The math is beyond me but my intuition says that it's the taxes and inflation (stealth tax) that is the root of the problem. Undo that and the rest may work itself out. It can't be done through redirecting money.
how bout some old school thought: no work - no dinner
My Dearest,
It saddens me to see you say this. You have been a loving and supportive husband and I am so happy you chose me as your partner. I have watched for years you work incredibly long hours to support our family. It was not your fault you were unable to give us the life our parents had. There are things not in your control. Your hardwork, innovation and creative genius was not rewarded but stolen. You made others rich.
I know it was your dream to have me stay home and raise our family but we did the best we could considering the economic environment we found ourself. Your guidance kept us financially sound whereas my ideas would not have been. I am forever grateful for your vision though at the time I couldn't see.
Having a maid and gardener would be a nice luxury but really my love they aren't needed. We have managed 30 years without. Besides, doing those mundane chores as home maintenance and weed pulling are just a part of our life together. At the end of the day, looking at you gaze at me with that smile of yours, makes me content. You are good enough just as you are.
Miffed;-)
Nice.
(getta room)
Happy Anniversary, (just a wild ass guess)
To the worker: You can be skilled and productive and earn a higher wage or you can have the literacy of an 8th grader and earn low wages, but you can't have both.
To the employer: You can raise your existing worker wages by 10% under the minimum wage law and still stay in business or you can hire 10% fewer workers, but you can't do both.
To the employer: You can raise your existing worker wages by 10% under the minimum wage law and still stay in business or you can hire 10% fewer workers, but you can't do both. Assuming every business in America is only breaking even.
"You might not like unions or minimum wages, but without them the working class lives in poverty. I challenge anyone to find an exception."
I'm an exception! I worked three jobs while putting myself through technical school.. And I'm sure there are many more like me out there!
How about we start by closing the borders and eliminating things like H1Bs? Think that'll increase demand for domestic labor? Maybe?
Employers are always going to look for the least expensive labor. Should your teenager have to compete with an illegal immigrant for a bagboy job? Or for an entry level framing/drywall/siding/roofing gig...
Do you think that theft by government is the solution?
Why does government jail thieves? It hates the competition.
And the machines don't spit in your food either.
You have to make it at least $25 per hour or they cannot afford to come off welfare. However, if you cut out about 80% of the welfare, there wouldn't be such a clamor for $15 minimum wage because people would be glad to work for what the market provides..
ZH, you aren't seriously suggesting that human workers would be competitive with those kiosks if they made less, are you????? Somehow if McDonald's could pay workers less, they wouldn't adopt those kiosks? OMFG.
This is the McDonalds death rattle. There hasn't been food there for decades, now there's no profits either. Soon there won't be people. It will be most streamlined form of the modern business strategy. Make shit, market heavily, ask Uncle Sam for bailout when it all comes unraveled. McDonalds will just have small banks of kiosks all over where bought off politicians come to deposit favors. Nobody else needs to bother going there!
Mcdonalds is no better then the garbage from a vending machine, why not make the experience resemble a vending machine as well.
Can we cut the McD's executives compensation by 90%? Might make the stock worthwhile.
I'm disappointed Ronald M. isn't on the splash screen.
Clowns, Kings, little red haired girls,white haired colonels and pedophiles scare me.
At my age losing a bodily function in public also scares me.
Although I find Pizza the Hut, Pete Za (funny), and the Zoid (gone) strangely neutral.
Now if only they could install one of these machines in the Oval Office the US might start to function a little better.
This should help you calm down. Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr... "Fuck You, I'm Eating."
3 words. Fatty liver disease.
You will not see one of these in the City of Seattle. That's guranteed, as its a Totaletarian mindset culture. They would burn the Mc Donalds to the ground. Your going to pay, or leave. That's your option, and, if you do leave. They're people lined up to take your spot.
Look at the automation and innovation that the increase in the minimum wage is driving! This is great if the only way business will innovate is by raising wages then I say next stop $30 per hour and then $50 and more.
My wife went to visit relatives this weekend, leaving me to fend for myself. When I got up on Saturday morning, I had 2 choices for breakfast - walk 5 minutes to the local diner or make breakfast myself.
In 10 minutes, I rustled up 3 eggs easy over, toast, coffee and some Canadian bacon. Ate breakfast, cleaned up and started my day.
For me, it beyond comprehension why people don't cook their own food and pack and bring a lunch box to work. At least you know what you are eating and not getting ripped off at the cash register.
Basically if a person can't cook up healthy dishes quickly he is doomed, both from a health and financial perspective.
Restaurants bum me out. I have read so many "what is the right tip for bad service" articles lately and they say that a server is "due" a tip even for bad service.
Rather than partake in the debate, smart people who prefer not to give a monetary reward to lousy service, bypass the whole thing and eat at home, thus saving $ and hassle.
We therefore remove ourselves from the debate and save a lot of $.
Financial wisdom is the most under-rated of all human attributes.
Cooking (other than microwave cuisine) at home also is a non threatening (mostly) lesson in success and failure.
Impossible cheese burger pie is always a success, even screwed up.
Vegetables , with the exception of potatoes, are always a failure, trying to make them taste less like vegetables.
So, a McD employee in Eastern Ohio and SF both making $15./hr. Makes sense? Not really well thought through. Then again, is any progressive "fairness" diatribe.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you!
A job at McD was not ment to be a career.
http://www.heritage.org/~/media/images/reports/2014/09/ib4272-chart-1-82...
the problem is not automation and robotization
the real problem is how will society distribute what the robots produce
Don't worry, the liberals are too fucking dumb to take a notice.
Americans like you who play the libs vs cons game are the real stupid idiots.
Sorry if we put up a ineffectual mutter of complaint once in a while.
I hope the rest of your day goes better.
Force down wages = More profit
Force down wages = fewer $$ to purchase product -> lower profit
Force up wages = increased automation -> fewer jobs -> fewer $$ to purchase products -> lower profit
Force up wages = more $$ to purchase products -> more profit
Ultimately, there is little benefit for one company to increase wages, they will lose while cheaper wage companies win. Ultimately, we all lose, the rich just lose slower.
This minimum wage shit is like arguing red team vs blue team. 4.5 trillion dollars created out of thin air is equal to 20,000,000 $50,000 a year jobs for 4.5 years. Think about that for a second and tell me about the injustices of having to pay someone $15 an hour.
Uh...,really? the value of currency is equal to the value of goods in the markeplace. When there is more money than goods, value of money goes down, or goods go up, either way...same thing.. Your fake $50k will soon be worth the same as what you get today. The price of goods will go up commensurately negating your "pay raise". Dumbass. It is idiots like you who think the central planners will take care of you. Go out and make your own wealth and stop demanding it from someone else, otherwise, like your income you have now or suckit.
You miss my point, I have no delusions of central planners taking care of me. They will take care of themselves. Fact is they did print money from nothing? Did the very small minority reap the rewards of said fake money printing? Has misallocation of that money actually contracted the economy? Has all this money printing actually slowed innovation? Banks own the printing press, the politicians, and pretty much all corporations. They have reaped the rewards while the mass majority has seen there net worth drop.
I understand that Everyone can be replaced!! The point is they did creat 4.5 trillion dollars, 20 gazillion yen, 30 trillion yuan, 4 trillion euros and trillions of other fiat currencies out of nothing. The money has already been debased, because of that purchasing power has already been reduced.
The argument about minimum wage to me is like the local "news" talking about some dumb fuck stealing $400 worth of shit from Walmart. In the mean time Wall St. and the banks have stolen trillions, and yet no prosecution for those people because "we might lose faith in the system."
Simply putting a number on it 20 million $50k (average family income) jobs for 4.5 years just shows how much fiat was created and diverted to the people that needed it the least.
Of course its MANDATORY that people must EAT at fast food crap places.
Or could it be that Americans are so lazy and stupid they can't source good food and cook at home? Saving yourself a LOT OF MONEY.
And you need to get some sunshine buttfucker. Lazy and stupid? Oh yeah, thats right, the Netherlands is responsible for the telephone, the automobile, the lightbulb, the computer, the airplane, the phonograph, the very power grid you use today, the radio, and on and on an........oh, oops, that was America that did all of that. Silly me. I thought it was a bunch of blond headed eurofaggots who dring hot chocolate and are whiter than my butt cheeks. We should have let you fuckers devour each other and kept uour young men on our shores in both world wars. We fight your battles, pay for them and then leave without taking a dime and the thanks we get is that we are the stupid lazy asses? Fuck off.
Automobile invented in Europe. Jet engine invented in Europe the World Wide Web invented in Europe. DVD/CD tech invented in Europe. HTML invented in Europe.MP3 tech invented in Europe. High speed autobahn invented in Europe. Steam locomotives invented in Europe. MagLev train invented in Europe etc etc etc.
Nice try RETARD but you FAIL
You ARE stupid lazy fucktards. especially YOU, ya goddam Americunt piece of SHIT.
''Coming from Northern Europe back to the USA is like leaving the Jetsons and returning to the Flinstones'' --New York Times reporter.
Fucking trailer park trash sons of crack whores like you are ''legends in your own mind''.
BtW,, asswipe , we don't want your fucking Mafia protection racket here. the USA creates enemies.
Thanks for showing just how much of a shit for brains retard you are with your comment.
You are a white nigger trailer park trash asswipe. a USELESS EATER
Keep spanking your monkey, dipshit.
A majority of those things that you listed were invented more than a century ago
Approximately 50% of Americans ARE that lazy and stupid. Drugs contribute to laziness, apathy, and stupidity. Being fat decreases mobility. Lacking a formal education and having nobody to teach them life skills like cooking, carpentry, gardening, and auto mechanics makes them stupid. They don't care about "saving money", and don't have enough disposable income to divert to savings even if they did care.
To lots of bastards the shareholders are more important than the people.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
True 2000 years ago , true today.
Russian officials propose bill to grant every citizen one hectare of farm and forest land to use for self-sufficiency
Read more: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz3kzeiRFXt
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Meanwhile in the USA they are fining people who have solar and live off the ''grid''
They fine people for having gardens. and even harvesting rain water from their roofs.
Seems like Russia is studying Americans and finding out what people really want and giving it to them. The chance to be self sufficent on their own land without govt regulation.
A lot of the stuff we think we know about the minimum wage is wrong.
WE pay McD's workers here in Netherlands 15 Euros an hour plus they get 4 weeks vacation per year from Day one.
And still McDonalds; makes loads of profit.
So whats wrong with McDonalds USA???
What are the menu prices in the NL?
http://www.amsterdamtips.com/tips/cost-of-living-amsterdam.php
I'll let you figgure the dol/eur comparo.
If they were parity , prices would similar, looks to me.
Don't feed the trolls.
I believe the hamburger is around $6.
Well enjoy your your once lovely country as the Muslims take over. But you will like it because they love Hitler just like you. Get a life you fucking troll.
$15/HOUR IS ALOT on a worldwide basis
ameracns used to get high wages because the Fed has printing press. If you tried going without it you would not have so generous welfare system and your expectations would be much lower
Who gives a shit. I wouldn't eat that crap if it was free. Dear God thats some nasty shit they serve.
I don't eat any American fast food crap. We have banned USA beef here for decades. Now they are trying to push their GMO poisons on us. People are getting really fed up with the USA.
Mini,um wage laws are the result of judicial activism. Lets just go ahead and interefere with the obligation of contracts by redefining State police powers. But thats neither here nor there. As to the subject natter at hand. I believe the message in effect is saying. "Unlike the family dog, YOU can be replaced". And now .gov just gave corporations the means to adjust the defenition of customer service
Has anyone ever seen Mr. Yellen and The Hamburgler in the same room ???
Have the Japanese perfected the fuck-bot, yet?
No need to wait until it can have AI. Just give me a stupid one now.
"Have the Japanese perfected the fuck-bot, yet?"
Yes
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2015-NEW-140cm-Japanese-Full-Silic...
A long time ago, I started as a cable TV technician, at minimum wage, then $3.35 per hour. I worked my ass off all summer, digging ditches, climginb ladders, and pulling wire in hellish attics.
I was made a 'lead tech' and given a raise to $4.50 per hour. I was very proud of my accomplishment and my higher wage was tangible proof. Fast forward a while and the minimum gets raised to $4.25 per hour.
All the sudden those flunkies under me were earning nearly what I was earning. And it took me time and effort to get that extra $1.15 per hour. But these guys get that $1 just because.
What that did was devalue my effort and my higher pay. Now I was their supervisor making only 25¢ an hour more than them. Did my pay suddenly go up to $5.65 to compensate for this min wage increase? No it did not.
But what did happen was the cost of most things I consumed to surivive also went up.
That's one side of the min wage argument not many people think about.
When I was in the military we used to average 2 percent a year raise.
Well , 2 percent of 50,000 a year ,what generals used to make is a lot more than 2 percent of 500 dollars a month what an e-4 used to make
Rich get richer, thats the name of the game.
They forgot somebody… I am the guy on a small pension and social security. I can no longer afford to buy their high priced food. I did not get any 30% raise. Stupid…
Why would you even want to buy their ''food'''??
Because you have a death wish?
If everybody just made three dollars an hour the world would be a wonderful place... for the rich.
Meh. Call me when they've replaced lawyers with kiosks.
I say to all you whiners who don't want to see a rise in minimum wage. I hope you enjoy getting assfucked.
Personally I like to see you all make 50 cents an hour because thats what most of you are worth.
You love bashing unions but without unions you would be making 10 cents an hour and working 100 hours a week.
Lots of you anti-union knuckle draggers would be praising yor filth rich employers by saying ''Isn't America a great country?? Anyone can become a millionaire.
Dude popping a prefab "burger" in a microwave and zapping it and sliding it across a counter does not require a $15 dollar wage. Really. We could train a fucking chimp to do that.
You do understand that businesses also compete for laborers based on oh I don't know ..... The amount of skill and experience they have? Flipping burgers was never supposed to be considered a Living wage career. The more valuable you are to society the more money you should earn because you worked hard to get to that position. Careers like burger-flipping are low skill level jobs. Minimum wage hurts everyone in the end. Businesses are forced to compensate either through layoffs, automation replacement, or price hikes. What are you going to do when a business lays off 50 people because of government wage controls? Pass new regulations limiting the number of layoffs a business can do? Eventually the business and its owner also suffers anway because now there is less disposable income to be spent in the entire economy.
Why would anyone want to remain a burger flipper, or have we lost all ambition to improve ourselves at this point?
You know with every "dollar" the POLS and union elites get they get a nice chunk in higher taxes and union "dues", right? Or is all that pious "profit taking"? And the worker gets what, about .60 cents maybe while the employer paid what,probably a $1.30 or so with the added payroll taxes and such? How exactly can getting that "raise" not cause the prices to go up and the cost of capital used to replace those least productive workers to go down (the automation)? This isn't even complicated stuff...you just don't want to consider it at all.
If you want workers to have more money in their pocket, why not push to lower taxes on them instead. Why don't you call for price controls in their energy and food and housing costs instead? Wouldn't it seem to result in the same desired outcome? Or does fixing the minimum price of labor work while fixing the maximum price of goods does not? Neither do of course because of the way economics has to work.
And just stop with the guessing on how horrible our existence would be "without unions". You can't differentiate the union movement from a century ago to the one that exists WITHIN the corporatist system today huh? No difference at all to you? Nothing? Get that weak shit outahere!
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Dont like your low wage salary? Start your own business then!