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SunnyvaleCA says

Seems to me that anyone getting welfare should be working a minimum of 2000 hours a year, which adds up to $15k at current country-wide minimum wage. Over and above the welfare benefits, that's not nothing!

Seems like a good start.

AmericanKulak says

"Hey, why is my social security and medicare being cut?!"

Because kiosks don't pay into retirement programs.

Kiosks don't collect from SS, either.
The problem is that SS is a corrupt pyramid scheme.

SunnyvaleCA says

The problem is that SS is a corrupt pyramid scheme.

Yes, and that it's been expanded to Depressed Addicts and all kinds of shit is was never intended for.

GNL says

ad, what is a good society to you?

I want everyone to have a living wage job and ZERO welfare except for the indigent.

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GNL says

ad, what is a good society to you?

I want everyone to have a living wage job and ZERO welfare except for the indigent.

Sarc, correct?

GNL says

Sarc, correct?

No. It's a pizza party. This is what you give kids to shut them up. The suits are sitting on cash. It's life. Not sarcasm. Those people will be happy with the pizza and move on with their day. It's actually a really good meme/image of how life is run.

Then don't ever bitch about minimum wage hikes, welfare, homelessness or even looting/wildings.

I believe you said you live close(?) to a war zone that has claimed more lives than WW2. Do you think that area will grow or shrink? Maybe more areas like that will pop up over time? This is what I'm most getting to. I want to keep from living in a place that is growing into a 3rd world.

I live in McLean Va. and there is an area that is becoming ghettoey. Pittbulls, trash, few street lights etc. The HS my daughters went to are top 50 schools in the nation.

Patrick says

The solution is to eliminate competition from illegal labor in America and to prevent exporting of US jobs.

Uniparty won't support import of legal and illegal labor into the United States of Dollars.

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GNL says

ad, what is a good society to you?

I want everyone to have a living wage job and ZERO welfare except for the indigent.

One of the two guys should wear be wearing red suit and the other blue in this picture. They are different sides of the same coin.

https://reason.com/2024/03/16/seattle-law-mandating-higher-delivery-driver-pay-is-a-disaster/

Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Disaster

In 2022, Seattle's City Council passed an ordinance mandating a minimum earnings floor for app-based food delivery drivers in the city. The law finally went into effect in January 2024, but so far the main result has been customers deleting their delivery apps en masse, food orders plummeting, and driver pay cratering.

The ordinance, part of a legislative package called "PayUp," was passed under the banner of protecting gig workers. By setting a compensation floor for app-based delivery drivers based on miles driven and amount of time worked, the ordinance operates as a (supremely complicated) minimum wage.

The wage floor is based on labyrinthine calculations: the "engaged minutes" for drivers are multiplied by a "minimum wage equivalent rate," which is then multiplied again by an "associated cost factor" and then multiplied yet again by an "associated time factor." ...

Heralded as a "first-of-its-kind" legislative breakthrough when it passed, the first two months of the ordinance's operation have provided a grim real-world Economics 101 lesson. First, the delivery companies were forced to add a $5 fee onto delivery orders in the city to cover the sudden labor cost increase. On cue, news stories started popping up of $26 coffees, $32 sandwiches, and $35 Wingstop orders in which taxes and the new fee comprised nearly 30 percent of the total.

Local news station King 5 reported that Seattle residents started deleting their delivery apps from their phones in response to the spiking exorbitant delivery prices. Uber Eats experienced a 30-percent decline in order volume in the city, while DoorDash reported 30,000 fewer orders within just the first two weeks of the ordinance taking effect.

In turn, this decrease in demand directly impacted the pocketbooks of the delivery drivers themselves. A driver who made $931 in a week this time last year saw his earnings drop by half to $464.81 in a comparative week this year. Another reported consistently making $20 an hour prior to the ordinance, only to see his earnings likewise fall by more than half since its enactment.

In other words, while the ordinance theoretically raises driver earnings to over $26 per hour—a number that ironically far exceeds Seattle's $19.97 standard minimum wage—drivers are barely logging any hours as a result of the drastic decrease in demand for food delivery. As one Seattle driver summarized: "It was dead. Demand was dead." A second driver put it more bluntly: "I've got nothin'. I'm not gonna sit here for hours for one frickin' order."

Everyone has to eat. The "income" will come from somewhere.

Theyʼll just get unemployment or become criminałs. Sounds like a win-win.

What will really happen is people at the bottom will be pushed into poverty. Central bank run economies prey on the weakest, and eventually push everyone to the bottom.

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Likely the poor will qualify for more local and state subsidies. They'll just line up more at the local food bank.

By the way, did you all see the Obama-phone program (Affordable Connectivity Program) is not being funded this year ?
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Minimum wagę has alway created unemployment. Business owners don't hire people and make due with less. There are people that would gladly work for $5/hr and not live on the streets. Let the market set the rates. You could end homelessness somewhat quickly. If I were a business owner I'm not hiring a deadbeat for $15/hr. I'd take the risk at $5/hr and that could maybe get them in a low rent studio apartment somewhere.

This is basic economics. Learn a skill and you'll get paid more as time goes by. My good buddy is a chef. Yes he was able to afford to do the schooling, but he was paid shit out the gate. He's shown his worth and makes solid money now. He won't be rich, but he likes what he's doing and can have fun when not working. He'd probably be living with his mom if he didn't establish his chef career. Now he's independent. Not homeless.

The barrier of entry into the basic work force is minimum wage. Also age. My oldest would work for $5/hr anywhere. He's taller at 13 than most men. Can figure anything out for the most part in basic first time jobs. Outside of acting, kids really have little opportunity to work. Whether they're skills that are good or not, it's working. Always work smarter not harder, but you have to get through the beginning years. Earlier the better is my take.

WookieMan says

The barrier of entry into the basic work force is minimum wage. Also age. My oldest would work for $5/hr anywhere. He's taller at 13 than most men. Can figure anything out for the most part in basic first time jobs. Outside of acting, kids really have little opportunity to work. Whether they're skills that are good or not, it's working. Always work smarter not harder, but you have to get through the beginning years. Earlier the better is my take.

I agree that entry level jobs are essential. I did them, but it gives you an understanding of what is required to make things work.

AD says

Likely the poor will qualify for more local and state subsidies.

Given Katrina, East Palestine, and Maui, depending on government to save you is a pretty fucked fantasy...

richwicks says

I agree that entry level jobs are essential. I did them, but it gives you an understanding of what is required to make things work.

Kids for sure should work, just not slave labor like the early 1900's in factories. They need to move the legal age for regular work to 12. Cap the hours for sure. My dad slaved me out for his own projects. That didn't help remotely. I'd work 60 hour/wk in the summers... FML. Finally called him out at 20 after a gall bladder surgery and said I was going to kick his ass. I was on a rage. He backed off. Still always had a fucking opinion though.

I do think at 12 kids should be able to get W-2 jobs. Max it out at 20 hours a week max. They'll learn more about life than sitting in a shitty classroom. Might learn a skill or be a decent human realizing how many shit heads are out there. Win win.

WookieMan says

I do think at 12 kids should be able to get W-2 jobs. Max it out at 20 hours a week max. They'll learn more about life than sitting in a shitty classroom. Might learn a skill or be a decent human realizing how many shit heads are out there. Win win.

I think kids should certainly have the ability to get employment at that age. I mean, honestly, lots of kids DO work at that age but they are working at Mom and Pop stores that their parents own.

I do think at 12 kids should be able to get W-2 jobs. Max it out at 20 hours a week max. They'll learn more about life than sitting in a shitty classroom. Might learn a skill or be a decent human realizing how many shit heads are out there. Win win.

Never gonna happen. IMO, we need trade schools big time. I ran into a guy at a business social. He owns a couple of icode franchises. It’s kind of like a Mathnasium franchise. I thought that was kind of cool.

GNL says

Never gonna happen. IMO, we need trade schools big time.

I have no issue with trade schools. The age thing is what bothers me. They can act in movies and commercials, but not flip some burgers? Two of the people I know and are about to be neighbors with both worked at the burger joint in town at young ages. They're both successful now. My wife worked babysitting at 12 and worked the corner market around the same age. Again, successful.

Wasn't paid, but I was mowing 8 acres at 7 years old. I laid a 200 yard brick driveway by 10. Helped my dad build 4 houses by 12.

I guess I'm saying complete age restrictions on work is bull shit. We're a service industry economy. Kids won't be working in fucking steel mills. My 13 year old looks like a man and is shaving. If he has the drive and wants to flip burgers he should be allowed to. Just went to the place with burger flipping I'm talking about above and he'd look like the manager.

When you squash ones drive they become less motivated. This is undeniable. I lost my drive because my dad used me as slave labor waaaaay too young. I think most states need to move it down to 12 at least and let parents make the decision and the employer can approve or not.

There's also the compounding savings factor. Sure, a 12 year old is going to work a shit job. They make $3-5k/yr. Toss that in a compound interest calculator for those 6-10 years where mom and dad generally pay for stuff. Roughly $50k by sophomore year in college. That's $650k by social security age at 5% interest. That doesn't include your adult earnings at all past 20+.

Fact is my kids are going to need $10M by the time they're done working in 50 years. Why not let a motivated 13 year old work if they want? Just limit hours. 12-14 is the age now where drugs enter the picture. If they're working they're not doing that. We've become too soft.

Sorry for the novel. This subject gets me going.

Nowadays you might get social services called on you if your kid is working a lemonade stand FFS. This country is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over regulated. We will be conquered through inflation, taxation and regulation. And illegal importation.