Minimum wage debate

[BmorePat87]

(03-04-2019, 07:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It's a double edged sword. We want workers to get more money, employers want to make more profit. I feel we will price ourselves out of jobs.

For instance I go to Walmart now I become a cashier when it's time for me to leave. I feel fast food will go the way of Japan. They have a machine outside, you pay, get a ticket, take it to the cook, and take a seat.

McDonalds is already moving towards kiosks to order food and a local chains Royal Farms and Wawa having been doing it for years. 

Quote:I have a worker who insists on mailing everything (bills, ect...) he refuses to do online because the "mailman needs a job too". He does all his banking at the bank because of the same principle. How many of us are willing to do that.


IMO we need to stop looking to pay the fry cook $15/hr and develop a job for him/her worth $15/hr. A machine is not going to fix my plumbing.

the problem is schools began to teach kids to go to college and threw out all of the trade instruction. Now we need more people working trades and working in technical areas not covered by college, and schools have to catch back up and reintroduce these programs. 

I read a story about one school that had turned its shop room into storage. Then a local business donated their old 3D printer and they reintroduced shop as a class geared towards teaching this new form of technology. Doesn't have to just be newer fields, it could be the forgotten fields too. My mom's yearbook had HVAC, auto, and refrigeration teachers. Why shouldn't we still have those?

We're trying to promote apprenticeships more at my school, but the damn state and county still emphasize college over career, even though are standards are "career and college readiness standards", so it can be hard getting kids into programs while still meeting this standards.