Seems like any job should be 'financially altering' in that you can pay rent, utilities, and maybe save some money and keep you off means-tested public assistance. I dont understand why boomers who think fast food jobs are for teens working summer jobs in 1967 has to be true for all time, stop living in the past.
maybe california should focus more on reducing power costs, reducing home buying and rental costs,reduce auto prices, but of course those industries contribute to political campaigns so it is easier to attack the fast food sector, after all, we all know eating fast food is unhealthy, right, drive them out of business so we all eat sprouts and tofu
20.00 a hour times 40 hours a week times 4.5 weeks a month equals 3600.00 a month.now at a .75% take home that is about 2700.00 a month. now add in the fact that companies will do what they can to make up those wage increases so your 40 hour a week job may become a 32 hour a week job, hiring 5 new employees may go down to only hiring 3, so, in the long run you are no better off than before.be careful what you wish for
One of the bigger points is that if companies can't pay people enough to make a living wage, that's a problem with the system. Shouldn't have to wonder why then (and I hope you don't complain about it) the govt has to step in to subsidize so many people with food and shelter.
part of the problem, imo, post covid is that people have been told that despite their lack of skills they are worth more than they are, thus they will not work jobs beneath their assumed level of ability, thus all the open jobs.
Not bad for summer high school job. I never worked fast food in my life. The day I turned 15 I got a part-time job at my local mom and pop pizzeria... while I was in high school.. I was paid minimum wage... $4.24/h ..or $4.15 can't remember.
it is the chicken or the egg problem. pay more to workers, raise prices to cover, lose customers because of higher prices, let employees go to make up for lost revenue.
Living wages = good Fast food model is changing with more automation Affordable food is at the grocery store. OT: McDonald’s is a real estate company.
Interesting point. Maybe explains what I recall being 29 cent hamburger and 39 cent cheeseburger deals in the 90's. I wondered how that wasn't some sort of anti-trust violation there, lol.
Sure, but it is also a capitalism problem. Imagine a world where there was no unskilled laborers to do all the things that modern society needs for it to function? Seems to me that would make them much more valuable than many would like to believe.
yet we are told we need immigrants to do the work that people here do not want to do, yet they think they are more valuable than they are, beneath them to do some jobs, easier to go on welfare than actually work, and you and i pay them.
Usually in the produce section. I try not to buy anything that comes in a shelf preserved package. Saving a bunch on food adopting a rolling 36 / 12 intermittent fasting schedule. Cut the grocery bill by 1/3. Crazy how insulin resistant Americans are in general. Also good for inflammation. Good luck. I hope you are able to afford food.
