I don't much agree with most of this. I believe anyone that can avoid working full time for a wage they can't possibly live off of should take any opportunity presented not to be a sucker.
Assuming you're talking big corporations. I doubt the average small business owner can even afford to pay minimum wage without cutting staff if it's 15 an hour. I do believe big corps should pay their workers more, but that gets dangerous with exporting labor and automation. The problem with the left is they think humans are more valuable than the work they put out. Live in the real world, I don't care that you can't make a living wage. If you can't work with the amount I'm willing to pay you, than I'll find someone else and you'll collect unemployment.
Sooner or later the money will run out then you starve and become homeless, in the UK you miss a job centre call and they don't ring for long and 3 months no money, not that they pay much. No way to exist, sooner or later with what's going on in the world it'll be no job 6months, gas chamber time as soon as you do anything to stop for starving, beg dead, steal loaf of bread dead it's a coming.
I'm surprised the people who demand wages increases think business owners are sitting on top of a pile of money they don't want to share. I wonder if this is related to the fact that over 80% of small businesses fail within the first 5 years...
If their business depends on government subsidy of low wage workers. they have no business being in business in the first place.
Right.. You do know this goes full circle right? Paying someone 15 dollars an hour will lead to higher prices for customers. Customers don't want to pay and you fire people leading to unemployment. Customers order online instead cause it's cheaper, you make companies like Amazon fatter. They'll use that money to lobby more anti business laws and ensure they're the only ones you can buy from and the cycle continues. Until one day everyone will buy from Walmart, Costo or Amazon. There won't be anymore small businesses and the cooperation will be in charge if they are not already. Keep it up, I own amazon and walmart stock. I just find it funny how the left preach about the 1% having all the money when they're indirectly supporting bloated companies that are owned by the 1% by demonizing their competitors ( i.e. small businesses). Instead of thinking the company doesn't pay you a living wage, why don't you say your skills are inadequate? The skills you acquired are not worth a living wage, thus you shouldn't be paid one.
Sadly younger generation brought up expecting it all, most just won't work for less than $20 per hour say, cause regardless of skils they deserve it, Idiocracy is a coming on fast. These people want socialist the government pays them a living wage to stay home, and think people who work shouldn't be better off. Lockdowns have killed small businesses, without a basic living wage, nobody will be buying anything which is basically just giving money to amazon at this point. Made up Waves, hyper inflation. Heard france brink of civil war against muslims that have moved in, that'll spread to other countries, world is very unstable, Israel at it big time aswell, russia not long till surprise attack on ukraine and china will hit Taiwan hard soon aswell, maker of most chips including in missiles whooopppss!
They've got fully automated mc donalds coming soon, that's a lot of low wage jobs gone. Repair / cleaner or 2 I guess.