As an employer, I hire when I have the work an employee can do at a profit I feel makes it worth my time to get the work and manage them. That’s the whole calculus of hiring.
The root cause isn’t minimum wage. While that can be important it does affect a lot of small business. With that said the root cause is corporations using profits to line their pockets instead of helping the economy by paying their employees.
We need to stop skirting around the issue that is corporate America. we need to tax the fuck out of corporate profits BEFORE they hide it all in investments or stock buybacks.
People are scared of less jobs but that should be the goal.
We already reached the threshold that allows everybody to work only a fraction of what is considered normal, and still have everything we could ever want.
“Everybody needs a job” is a mindset that should have been obsolete for a long time.
Joke’s on us, fast food jobs were replaced by touch screens anyway.
Corporations were bragging about record profits not that long ago, and then basically admitted to price gouging. Folks are extremely underpaid in most areas. Not shocked at all.
