Company who raised minimum wage to 70k a year six years ago

[Toll_Collector]

@floydefisher

Sweeping floors at a grocery store is a minimum wage job (don’t ask how I know)…so if they raise the minimum wage to the point where it’s equal to what you’re currently making, you will need a raise or you will leave (which you just admitted).

Multiply that by the entire workforce, and add in the business owners, and you have prices going up. And everybody is in the same boat as before.

Raising the minimum wage is feel good legislation and nothing more.

Well that’s just basic common sense. At my job we have a wide variety of pay scales depending on what department you’re in. Whenever we have a blizzard they ask anyone with a CDL if they want to help plow snow. The catch? You make your pay rate. How many volunteers do you think they get at 15 dollars an hour when most of the plow truck drivers are getting 50? I reversed it, but it’s the same concept.

[floydefisher]

Basic common sense is what BiggestAl is missing. Hence he thinks if you raise the minimum wage, it somehow magically improves everything.

[wiley8425]

So does the poverty level also magically go up? Asking for a friend.

[biggestal99]

@floydefisher

Basic common sense is what BiggestAl is missing. Hence he thinks if you raise the minimum wage, it somehow magically improves everything.

No magic involved.

Allan