I don't think they are greedy...

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FrankC — 9/3/2013 5:29:07 PM (archived)

and I understand that everyone wants to make more money, even the 16 year old kids that hold 90% of the jobs in question.

So yeah, the kids have a right to a "living" wage, as do the various shift supervisors, assistant managers, and managers who make 30K and up at McDonald. How does this affect their future wage increases and benefits?

What happens to those 16 year old kids? Their still crappy but higher paying jobs will probably be filled by older more competent workers who will still have a shitty job with little future. Do the kids then remain unemployed and what is the end result of that?

I give you the moral high ground based on your honorable intentions and ideals, I am only trying to point out the practicality involved in a complicated economic problem in a capitalistic system.

In the end does this eliminate more misery than it creates, or is it seen as just another brick in the wall?

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I do not understand this. - bowser - 9/3/2013 5:31:33 AM
- I don't think they are greedy... - FrankC - 9/3/2013 5:29:07 PM
  - Just google "median age of fast food workers" - ER - 9/3/2013 6:30:10 PM
    - You have to remember the situation was exacerbated by a hellacious recession that isn't over yet. n/t - RobVG - 9/4/2013 12:30:23 AM
      - That's true. But it should be little comfort to us. - ER - 9/4/2013 1:02:57 AM
        
        See my last post to Robert on CE. n/t - RobVG - 9/4/2013 1:19:03 AM
        
        See my response on CE - Robert - 9/4/2013 6:51:17 PM
        
        And you can read any of my posts for the last 10 years. - bowser - 9/5/2013 1:27:02 AM
        
        and lord knows I have - Robert - 9/6/2013 10:24:00 PM
        
        Excellent post. - ER - 9/4/2013 1:24:10 AM
    - A misconception... - FrankC - 9/3/2013 9:48:16 PM
      - Why pay them at all? - ER - 9/3/2013 10:41:55 PM
        
        Oh but I do get it... - FrankC - 9/3/2013 11:36:15 PM
        
        The system IS working to my satisfaction. - ER - 9/4/2013 12:37:50 AM
      - You are chasing your tail in progressively smaller circles. - alcaray - 9/3/2013 10:11:57 PM
        
        You are a master of misunderstanding al - FrankC - 9/3/2013 10:37:46 PM
        
        That indeed was one of the things you said. Also you said: - alcaray - 9/4/2013 5:15:40 AM
        
        Spoken like a burger flipper - FrankC - 9/4/2013 4:29:12 PM
        
        Then you have done it. Though you learned the wrong lesson from it. - alcaray - 9/4/2013 6:46:22 PM
        
        I think that is right Frank. - Jody - 9/4/2013 5:08:45 PM
        
        I am torn between... - FrankC - 9/4/2013 5:51:22 PM
        
        THIS IS GENERAL RANT OF FRUSTRATION> NOT AIMED AT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR> - Jody - 9/4/2013 5:20:52 PM
        
        √..... - RobVG - 9/4/2013 12:34:15 AM
  - "16 year old kids that hold 90% of the jobs in question" - Robert - 9/3/2013 6:12:12 PM
    - I gave you the moral high ground, you are a brick... - FrankC - 9/3/2013 8:12:12 PM
- The power of one. - Jody - 9/3/2013 2:46:03 PM
- One word: class struggle. - ER - 9/3/2013 12:31:56 PM

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