Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:58 pm
Enadail wrote:Lordieth wrote:Last time I checked, 15 dollars was double that of 7.5. Unless I got the math completely wrong. "a few bucks" is meaningless. We're talking about doubling of a salary. That is what's ludicrous. If they were asking for a raise to 9, or even 10 dollars, then you could say "a few bucks".
A few bucks and double are not mutually exclusive. 7 bucks is a few bucks. It is also half of 14. They are two separate scales.Lordieth wrote:They people who work at McDonalds always have a choice. I never said the choice was "another job". It seems the problem isn't that McDonalds are paying too little, it's that the market is so monopolised that there isn't enough local competition to compete on wages. I don't think forcing McDonalds to double the salary of workers is at all beneficial.
The other choice is what then... dying? I'm sorry, are you trying to convince me your position is correct?
And if the market is too monopolized, something that McDonalds and other companies like it have done (and its not monopolized, its cartel'ed), why should they not pay for it? Or do you think companies out-rank humans?
I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm stating facts. They're not being forced to take a minimum wage. If they cannot get better pay for similar work elsewhere, then it seems glaringly obvious to me that this is the problem. As if McDonalds is somehow the only fast-food restaurant offering lousy worker salaries.
I get the point. McDonalds bad. Wage increase good. What about Burger King? Wendys? (Those are the only 3 I know that are American, although I'm not too sure about Wendys).
I'm saying the problem isn't McDonald's salaries. It's McDonald's market position. That's it.