06-09-2016, 01:12 AM
(06-09-2016, 12:35 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: It doesn't have to be a serious job. It just could be a job that used to be paid $2-5 more an hour than minimum wage, but if you bring minimum wage up to that job then people will leave it for the easier min wage job. It's just human nature. That's why companies would be forced to pay more for those positions. It's kind of like asking if you want an easy job or a hard job, but both of them will pay the same. 99% of people will take the easy job that pays the same. Hell most people will take the easier job even if it's less money as long as it's close.
But there will not suddenly be millions of new minimum wage jobs for all these people to take.
The number of jobs will not change. So if the same number of people work the same number of jobs will be filled. People would rather work a little harder AND MAKE MORE MONEY than not work at all and make NOTHING. If people used to work at McDonalds for $7.50 an hour then they will certainly work somewhere else for $10 an hour.
It is ridiculopus to think that people will justb quit their jobs and stay at home if they don't get a raise.
