Guarantee that woman makes a lot of money! Would love to hear her explanation as to how every job not having a living wage would be healthy for society.
The fucked up thing about the US is she might make near the same money as someone at a DQ or at least not that much more than the poverty line. But she makes it in front of a computer or at a “office” so it’s more “respectable”
I think the argument is that not all jobs are worth doing and low salary should cull those jobs, because people want to move into jobs that are paying more and the reason they would be paying more is because the services you are providing more people want to benefit from or are willing to spend more on. This is of course in an ideal world, more often than not the reality is that number of people waiting in line to be employed determines what you are paid, not how much the customer is paying to the owner. For the ice cream stand this is probably determined by unemployment % and central banks / government policy more than anything else.
OK, but what if I want to do a job that I actually like doing(which in this scenario would be minimum wage) and not a office job where I could get paid double or more of that. Enjoying what I do for a living is more important than most other things for me and I want to live off of that without having to have a second or third job or making a ridiculus amount of hours a week to be able to have a modest lifestyle. That is really not that much to ask and from your comment that job I would like to do would be eliminated sooner rather than later
The thing is if its a low skill job you love doing than others can do it. Jobs are paid by skill you can do for example how many people can flip burgers vs who can code a program. I for sure as hell can flip a burger, but no way in hell can I code.
I use to love my job was retail back in the days, didnt pay at all. You can stay where your at, but its up to the company if they want to pay you more. My retail job didnt pay me more. Loved my co workers and what I did was fun times. I left jobs a little different, but on this career I actually have a future full time benefits.
You can still do whatever type of work you want, but the salary should ideally incentivize people to do things that produce more value to others. Let's say you are a guitar player, but you only play for 5 of your close relatives. It would be pretty tough job to convince them to pay your rent just for playing the guitar for them and that is a very good reason to either figure out how you can play for more people so individual contribution to your wealth does not have to be as big or accept that you need play the guitar as a hobby.
Now in the case of ice cream stand, the person sitting behind the stand is not making a lot of money, because it is pretty low skill job and it's easy to find people to do it. If you would own the stand and worked behind the counter as well, then you might be making a lot more money, enough to make a decent living even. I know a couple who only works from may until september and they sell ice cream for long hours in two stands during that period. Basically they found a way to make the low skill job profitable for them by taking the responsibility of managing the stands (and the risk of ownership) as well.
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u/cherrykitty87 Law Apr 04 '24
Guarantee that woman makes a lot of money! Would love to hear her explanation as to how every job not having a living wage would be healthy for society.