told you this would happen, california wage raise equals price hikes

You’ll see, young padawan. Just like businesses falsely blamed rampant theft for closing businesses in underserved areas and falsely blamed cost increases for their higher prices that they raised for profit margins, this narrative too will dry up. Business leaders have you righties wrapped around their finger and you eat it up.

I have built operational plans for years and you plan the hours it takes to do a job. If you can do it in less hours.. guess what? You do. At no time do you plan manpower for a job based on anything but what it takes to do the job in hours. I laugh at these reports.

 

Where did I say paying poor people is bad for poor people? I said this would cause businesses to either raise prices, close up shop or fire workers. I was right.

 

Everyone is laughing all right, just not at the reports…

 

Reminds me of these two principles:

"The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else."

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity."

 

I dont build plans that are unprofitable. But if a particular division is unprofitable I’d either fix by addressing the issue (cost or revenue) or close it. If you can’t make a profit without exploiting workers then as a community California is fine without that business. I have zero issue with that.

 

It would be interesting to ask the workers that lose their jobs if they feel the same way. Maybe ask them that while 20 dollars an hour is nice, would it be worth it to them to say take 17 and keep their job, or go with the 20 and lose it.

 

Go find another $20 job because you weren’t fired because of your wage level. You were fired because the company could get by without you and they’d do that at $17 or $20. What dont you understand?

 

If a company could get by without any workers at all they would. But at some point it becomes easier to hire someone to do something rather than automate. But I guess that's the tipping point, and each type of company whether it's fast food, Target or a landscaping company figures out what that line is.

 

We have what amounts to full employment right now, so they can have a job if they look for one. They will probably trip over one on their way to looking for one right now.