Minimum Wage Cost Me My Job | 5 Minute Video
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- What happens when politicians decide they are in a better position than business owners to know how much workers should be paid? We don't have to guess. Cities like Seattle and New York have already done so with their $15/hour minimum wage mandates. Simone Barron, a lifelong restaurant worker, recounts how "helping" her impacted her wallet, her career, and her life.
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Script:
Like the fair-minded Progressive that I was, I thought a $15 minimum wage was an absolute good.
Then, I had a head-on collision with reality.
It’s a funny thing about reality. It just is. You can’t wish it away.
So, here is my cautionary tale.
For over three decades I had a good job working as a server. I have worked in some amazing, award-winning restaurants in Seattle.
I enjoyed the work. Met wonderful people. And I was making really good money.
I wasn’t making much, per hour-that’s true-but in my business, the magic is in tips. On a typical night, I would make on average $25 to $50 an hour.
Believe me, I earned it. I took pride in my work. I wanted every dining experience to be a memorable one for my guests.
I also loved my job for THIS reason: I had flexibility. I could plan my work schedule. That was very important to me because I had a growing son. It was a good life.
Then, in 2015, the Seattle City Council raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to $15 an hour-a 58 percent hike!
Great for the working stiff, right?
Well, hang on, because here comes Mr. Reality.
The business owner, the person who signs the checks, has to find a way to pay for this massive new expense. For Walmart or Microsoft or a large restaurant chain, this might not be a problem. For a local restaurant owner, it’s a nightmare.
Contrary to popular opinion, most restaurants don’t have big profit margins. In fact, most are razor thin.
Seattle restaurant owners, faced with this shock to their bottom line, raised prices, reworked their menus and created new compensation models.
Some did away with tips altogether, substituting a flat service charge as a way of navigating the climbing wage. That change in the tipping model caused a dent in my pocketbook. The rise in the wage did not cover the loss of the tips.
And, of course, they cut back on employee hours and support staff, too.
But for many establishments, none of these cost-saving measures worked. Restaurants, some that had been in business for decades, many family-owned, closed - including the ones I worked for.
Good servers don’t grow on trees. I was able to score an interview at another amazing restaurant.
Then, before I could even confirm the interview, that one closed, too. Same reason. The $15 minimum wage cut their profits down to nothing.
So, let me add this up for you.
I make a lot less money now than I did before Seattle decided to do what was supposedly in my best interest.
I used to be able to pay my bills as they came due.
Now it’s a juggling act.
I used to have enough money to support my son’s extra-curricular activities.
Now I often just say no.
Before the minimum wage increase, I had one job and worked four days a week.
After the wage hike, I had two jobs and worked six.
With my skills and a tipping culture, I used to average 18 to 20 percent or more on any check. Now, instead of tips, I get a flat 14 percent, part of the 20 percent service charge the restaurant owner tacks on the bill. I still pride myself in providing good service, but the incentive to go the extra mile is gone. There is no way to maximize my income.
And what’s Seattle’s answer to my problem? To raise the minimum wage again!
The progressive idea is that you should be able to make a "fair wage". But if you have no job or are working more for less, how is that fair?
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This is why politicians should have term limits, because eventually politicians are going to have to live under the laws they pass.
David R No, the system will be even more corrupt because the Nancy Pelosis and Dianne Feinsteins will sell their seats whilst still wielding power. The grand scheme of The Constitution is that some areas are more “progressive,” some are more “conservative,” and the Electoral College sorts it out
@@abrahamfroman246 I don't disagree, but eventually someone doesn't gets paid and they eat their own.
I mean you could bring back unions, that way the industry could set their own wages in accordance with the employees, without needing minimum wage, as the minimum wage cannot take all industries into consideration, but no that would be evil communism right? Lets let the goverment set the minimum wage lets see how that works out for you
They would make enough money under the table to get by from the hideous laws they push
We already DO have term limits. They are called ELECTIONS. Every member of the House [of Representatives], including Nancy D'Allesandro-Pelosi, has to run for election every TWO years. What are the VOTERS thinking?
As a small business owner, I would have no choice than to drop staff. It’s not just paying 10 dollars an hour, there are other hidden expenses that comes with employees that the public or employees don’t even know about and it can add up real quick!
True! I've calculated how much the "cost" of an employee was in the company I work for in regard to what that person was actually leaving with in a monthly basis, an it was 126% more. More than double! Although much of that money is for 13º salary, holidays and social security that will (hopefully) return to the employee one day, people don't realize how much it actually cost to employ someone and that this fact reduces job opportunities which consequently reduces salaries! Obs.: That calculation was done in Brazil for a slightly higher than minimum wage salary.
Dude if the work of other people worth for you less then 10 dollars per hour , is better for you to not run a buisness
@@dariusalexandru9536 I give my employees benefits like insurance and insurance companies are like demon leeches to small businesses if your not careful. So I give them more than $10 overall
@@juliaboell Unfortunately not many people understand how much money is being spent on them 😔
Even as a schlub laborer, I've known this for at least a decade. Whatever the wage, it generally costs the employer at least double. I make $15/hr, the company spends at least $30/hr to keep me around.
It doesn't take an analyst or a genius to figure out that money is like water, it finds the path of least resistance.
Unlike water, money tends to trickle upwards.
@@prashanthraghavendran2628 Money are more like a fountain, they are sucked from the bottom and pushed to the top.
please look at actual empirical data, which shows that seattle's unemployment numbers actually went down after the minimum wage hike. when people are paid more they also spend more, boosting economic growth
@@rileyandrews9156 Fire your incompetent fact checker. The actual data shows that Seattle's *youth* unemployment - you know, those people actually impacted by minimum wage laws - *skyrocketed* and remains the highest in the country (and Washington state as a whole is in the top few states with that problem. Meanwhile UW determined that the minimum wage resulted in a net *decrease* in resources available to workers impacted by the minimum wage hike. The notion that workers make more as the result of minimum wage hikes has been empirically proved tome and again (most recently in ... wait for it ... Seattle!). There has never been a case in which minimum wage laws have been anything but harmful to workers (or ever stimulated the economy). The research is literally overwhelming on this point.
As for your initial assertion, that isn't even true. Depending upon the time period chosen, employment in Seattle could have been said to go down ... or up. It pretty much stayed flat overall ... as unemployment fell noticeably throughout the country.*
Do at least try to keep up.
The problem is, the path of least resistance leads to a billionaire's bank account, where the money just sits around instead of circling back into the economy.
I laughed when they were asking the government of CA for help and they created the gig-worker rule (AB5) Politicians will do more harm than good in these situations.
They still do more good than the private sector that does literally nothing to help combat poverty or low wages
CA just put about 4.1 million people outta work with that...and caused at least three businesses to leave. Then, it's only gonna skyrocket prices of literally everything as building costs will now skyrocket.
"The road to hell is paved with Ivy League's degrees", Thomas Sowell.
What does that quote mean exactly?
@@thedominationer3070 It means that you get people from Ivy League Schools, degree in hand, that create ivory towers and say they are smarter than everyone else, then run everything right into the ground.
@@drascalicus5187
Yep.
@@thedominationer3070 What Thomas Sowell meant was that all these policies (most of them created at those universities by their academics) that lead america, among other nations, to create inequality and disparities in communities and societies, actually had their birth on policies which its intentions were the exact opposite. The results were even worst than its original state when legislated or implemented. Thomas Sowell is a well known economist, Harvard graduate with a Master's in Columbia U and a PhD at U of Chicago, who came from a poor family and became very interested in finding the answers to various questions. He writes about many topics. A great mind.
He loves facts, and constantly his judgement on government policies and on the left are supported by those facts that debunk the leftists narrative.
@@Maarttiin @Drascalicus ok thanks, good answers.
Literally, government mandate raising the minimum wage literally destroys more small businesses and helps more big corporations.
Exactly! Minimum wage helps create monopolies and oligopoly, because only the large and strong corporations have the money to survive.
@Martin Purcell Nobody ever said that the free market only has winners! Only good companies can survive under capitalism. If consumers are unhappy with a product, they will buy less. The business will therefore improve their product so that more people will buy it. If that fails, the company goes bankrupt. This is capitalism! There are constantly new companies opening, because they believe that they can provide better goods and services for a cheaper price.
Minimum wage however is a government led problem, which has NOTHING to do with capitalism (it is socialism). If the minimum wage is $15 an hour, then small companies can't open, because they can't afford to pay their employees so much money. Therefore, the existing companies will survive.
Yup, the best a small business can do is increase the price of a cake they made by 0.50$ or a 1$ and lay off some employees just to make for the minimum wage increase, and kinda still afloat with very little profits.
A big corp can increase the price of their flat screen TV by 500$, keep all their employees, pay the minimum wage increase and be billions in profit still.
@Martin Purcell you need to learn the difference between capitalism, and corporatism.
@Martin Purcell Definition of capitalism;
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Definition of corporatism:
Corporatism is a political ideology which advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, scientific, or guild associations on the basis of their common interests.[1][2] The term is derived from the Latin corpus, or "human body". The hypothesis that society will reach a peak of harmonious functioning when each of its divisions efficiently performs its designated function, such as a body's organs individually contributing its general health and functionality, lies at the center of corporatist theory.
Corporatist ideas have been expressed since Ancient Greek and Roman societies, with integration into Catholic social teaching and Christian democratic political parties. They have been paired by various advocates and implemented in various societies with a wide variety of political systems, including authoritarianism, absolutism, fascism, liberalism and socialism.[3]
Corporatism may also refer to economic tripartism involving negotiations between labour and business interest groups and the government to establish economic policy.[4] This is sometimes also referred to as neo-corporatism or social democratic corporatism.[5]
Corporatism was invented by the ancient Greeks and, Romans around 500 B.C.E. how can it be the end result, when capitalism was invented in the 1700's? The only one cherry picking is you. You clearly have zero idea what you're talking about.
I find it completely oxymoronic that you're bitching about capitalism via your cell phone which is a capitalist company, using your data provider which is a capitalist company, bitching about it on RUclips which is a capitalist company. A mom, and pop shop, is a capitalist company for crying out loud.
What's funny.. is clearly you're against capitalism. Everything you hate about it, is actually corporatism, witch is a liberal ideology.. witch you clearly are. Your guy's ideology is so stupid, you hate yourselves. One can't make up this kind of cognitive dissonance.
As a business owner, the $15 minimum wage means I will have to fire my lowest skilled labor and force my higher skilled labor to do more. It is a ridiculous idea whose sole purpose is to eliminate the bargaining power of the the employee and the negotiating process of all parties. Fundamentally, the only groups that benefit are the labor unions, who can negotiate BELOW the minimum wage, and the politicians who hope to get more votes.
You are wrong in some parts. Minimum wage will be a tool for government sponsored big corporations like apple, Raytheon, Google etc. to put competition out of business, even if people would be willing to work there for little money.
Minimum wage is also a way to keep people working and not using unemployment benefits.
If benefits are higher than payed work, why go to work?
There wasn't a need for a minimum wage, but unfortunately production was moved overseas and prices skyrocket, inequality is really bad and monopoly has entered its end game.
most unions are well above minimum wage bud, its just they all work together, why do you think a trucks $60+k now? unions build the factories, then staff it and run it. even then a unionized grocery store makes more than non union. i say this as a former union member.
This is why so many employers are going to part time hiring or independent contractors.
When I had a family biz years ago, I only hired contractors (through an inexpensive employment agency) on part time basis.
Since the agency was the "employer" there was a lot taken off my plate. Didn't have to worry about contractor not showing up because they always had a pool waiting to take his place. Didn't worry about providing benefits and taxes were between the agency and their employee.
Worked beautifully.
I sold the business years ago when I had to move to another state and do to too much market saturation.
If I launch another one, I'll structure so no employee required. Just ocasional independent contractor.
Doesn't work for every business, but it can work for many.
LadyOrion2012 except that you get a bunch of goons with no skin in the game or loyalty to you and the business.
Rather than increasing minimum wage, let’s instead cut taxes.
Foxfire0002 the national debt has entered the chat
@@jamesrivera4105 politicians wages gets a look...
@@jamesrivera4105 cutting taxes is half of that thought the other is to dramatically cut spending.
can't do that without cutting the government budget and the government never cuts its budget it just goes deeper into debt.
@@HoneyBadger1779 To say never does may be inaccurate probably more accurate to say never has.
**Minimum wage gets increased**
Worker: Yay more pay!
Wall-E: I’m about to end this mans career
Why wall-E why
@@SteveInLava I was wondering that too
Prob cause he’d be cheaper to work with than actual people.
That means automation of his career is inevitable regardless of what the minimum wage was.
Stephen Fernandez idk that innocence in the movie makes him look like he’s plotting something
Imagine being so ideologically possessed you dislike videos before they come out... sad world. Yall replaced christianity with a political religion
Edit: Wow. Im shocked. I cant believe I even have to put in this edit in. Yall are so possessed your minds are like a jack in the box.
The reason why i didnt go after the likers of this videos before it aired is because you can support content that you agree or disagree with and I would bet nearly every normal person does. I do it every time I watch a Packers video, unless they are beating the bears (fyi the Packers and bears have a bitter rivalry). I can promise there are many who liked this video before it was show-able , but dislike pragers views. My sister comes to mind. In case, some of those likers just like the content subject matter (in my case football) or the fact this dialogue is taking place or maybe they are excited to hear the other side of the argument or they just like Prager videos.
You dont have to be ideological possessed to give positive feedback, but YOU DO HAVE TO BE IDEOLOGICALLY POSSESSED TO Automatically give NEGATIve FEEDBACK because that means when you first clicked on this political video you got that disgust feeling in your stomach and that comes from ideological possession. (if you think otherwise you are wrong, and I suggest you think about the Republican view points. I can promise you, if all the kneejerk thoughts are negative, then you should seek a wider social circle) Also its ok if you are possessed (you are not stupid and i dont think any less of you as a person. No body is perfect in this world or has all the answers), and it is easy to get in these tribal mindsets. As a young man, I for some reason hated the Packers and thier fans to an irational degree that I am embarrassed of today. It was because I was surronded by da Bear's fans and did not know a single packers fan. While all the adults ragged on the packers jokingly, I took their banter too seriously because I wasnt an adult yet and i lived in sort of an "echo chamber"/bear fan safe space. Get out of politics for a while and breathe. Trust me, the world wont end over night, even if the right gets control of the government again in 2020.
Imagine being so ideologically possessed you like videos before they even comes out... sad world. Y'all replaced Christianity with a political religion.
People really worship Mammon
Y'all replaced your party with facisim
i see you didnt go after people who liked it before it came out, seems like you’re just catering to prager’s propoganda
True, except that religions like judeo-christian ones don't rely on brainwashing or encouraging people to avoid exposure to ideas that challenge their own. For christians, wrestling with faith and finally accepting Christ is the foundation, whereas, for leftists, shutting down anyone who questions their ideas is the foundation.
"The real minimum wage is zero" : Thomas Sowell.
@Ronald Smith No it means that the minimum wage is worthless.
Always thought that was Friedman.
@@martinnordby1002 Lots of people have said it, including the NYT: archive.vn/V7Ocy
I'm not sure who said it first.
@Ronald Smith
No, it means you have to prove your worth. Rather than getting paid minimum wage you need to negotiate for a wage you want. One that is commensurate with your skills and abilities and what the company can/is willing to pay.
For you, well, I'd hire you at 2.50 to shovel shit if you wanted to work.
Austria has no minimum wage, you know why it works.
You wanna know the secret big companies dont want you to know.
Fkin unions man
@@FletchforFreedom
Perhaps it is better understood is the real *relevant* minimum wage is $0
From the perspective of someone trying to find their first ever job, with no skills, employers can choose not to hire you.
For someone worth *more* than $15/hour, the minimum wage is *irrelevant*. They earn more anyway.
When I wanted to start work, I was worth less than the minimum wage, so I earned $0. The minimum wage was *relevant*
So in effect, and from the perspective of someone looking for work, there is only one *relevant* minimum wage : $0.
In Europe, we don't have a tipping culture. Servers are some of the lowest-paid employees, if not the lowest paid and most overworked in Spain.
Interesting. Is it because there's not enough money to pay someone extra?
@@MrHyde-fu5sr I dont think so. In certain cases you'd eat in your favourite cafe or bakery almost every single day. I think is just culture. You'd maybe leave 1 euro or 2 every now and then, but is not at all required and there's no expectation for it. To require tipping 15% or more would be like going to the supermarket and then adding 15% for the cashier. And then, the cashier only feels motivated to do an excellent job is that bonus is there. Or to buy a tv and then give 10% extra to the sales man, is....just not culture. The salary is the salary. Unfortunately, waiters and servers are low paid...It's sadly also culture, immigration and an overabundance of services that have driven the wages down. On the other hand, eating out is crazy cheap.
@@MrHyde-fu5sr also, I should point out there's things like this In other cultures. In China, you're expected (by what my friends say) to negotiate prices. In Brazil you're not expected to negotiate but you can request discounts. In Europe, in my experience when you go to a store the price is the price.
You should note that the only reason were expected to tip is because servers are usually paid a few dollars and hours and are expected to make most of their money from tips. So while this video may have you believe that this hurt servers in general, it probably didn't for most servers she may have made $20 dollars an hour in tips but at the same time there were more servers who were making $6 hr or less and were barely making $9-11 after tips. Some places they pay servers like $2 hr and expect them to make the rest in tips.
Yup, but in the US their wages are based on those tips a while lot more sometimes being payed less than minimum wage
People don’t seem to understand that employers are buying your labor. I mean think about it: if you’re looking for candy at the store and you see a bag of nothing but chocolate for $10 and another larger bag with assorted candies for $7, which are you going to choose? It’s the same way with hiring. People aren’t going to hire you if the cost of your labor is high, especially if you have little to no job experience. That’s all the minimum wage does, alienates those who desperately need work experience. People are being deprived of work they desperately need, and since people are constantly entering the work force everyday, this becomes a huge problem! I know this because I live in SoCal, where I once took a resume to McDonalds, you know the first place everyone goes to to get job experience and they turned me away because I didn’t have job experience. Let me say that again: McD, the place everyone goes to to get their first job, turned me away because of my lack of job experience. Lower the minimum wage already!
Phew, that was a long rant. Hopefully I got my point across
But once you get a job wouldnt it be worth the extra amount of time looking to make 4 dollars an hour more?
Its our labour keeping the industry going
Employers are more like middle men selling our labour to someone else
Ceo wages have risen 125X faster than average wages
If the company you work for in makeing large profits the work you do plays a part in these profits abd as such you are entitled to a fair share
More like people are wising up and not willing to work for a company that isn't going to match COL in their area. No one should. No one should be willing to work a job that leaves them in the negative to sustain while trying to save and build up to move on from a minimum wage job.
@@MegaVoetbalfreak it only hurts then because employeers claim to be unable to sustain it. They aren't able to sustain it because they were allowed to operate their businesses at a complete scarcity under minimum wage laws. If Employeers compensated for wages and cost for rising COL when it was happening in the 90's and 2000's and slowly increased wages over time, it wouldn't have been an issue. Now they are upset because they can't sustain a large increase and can't fill the positions because people aren't willing to work the high demands for low wages.
@@MegaVoetbalfreak Too complicated, you are oppressing me with white logic privilege.
When I worked minimum wage jobs I thought was unfair that the guy who did the bare minimum at work got paid the same as the guy who went the extra mile. There are so many people who work hard but they pay for the people who barely do anything.
How would this be solved?
This is more relatable than it should be. Every job I've ever done, no one was on time, everyone went out of there way to do as little work as they could, and no one would help each other. It drove me insane that my bosses kept denying my raise even though I was one of the best, most reliable worker. But I wasn't a woman, nor a minority. So they found any excuse they could to keep my money from me.
"Hi, we're from the government and we''re here to help."
Words that should strike fear in all Americans.
Hi, I am from the government and I can provide you with affordable housing, free education and free healthcare. Plus a decent minimum salary that gives you the chance to live a modest but good life.
Have I scared you??
Bel Diman Nothing is ever “free”. Everything has a cost. “Free healthcare” comes from the pockets of the taxpayer, same with every other “free” thing your everyday slimy politician promises.
Get out of your thought bubble and look at the world around you.
@@absoluteaquarian Yes, indeed, everything costs money but as a fellow aquarian I will also advise you to get out of your own bubble and realize that when so many governments around the world are able to provide healthcare basically for free, USA should be able to do that as well. Some of these governments are located in countries with moderate taxes ( UK, Canada) or no taxes (Qatar, The Emirates, Saudi-Arabia,etc). Maybe those politicians that are promising universal healthcare in USA, are not talking non-sense.
@@beldiman5870 Yes, you have lied your ass off and set us on the road to impoverishment. That should scare anyone. One has to ask, what blithering idiot gave you the impression that *any* country on the globe is "able to provide healthcare basically for free"? You really must hand out with world-class bufffoons. The costs of healthcare in other countries are arguably much higher, not merely inthe form of higher taxes and lower standards of living, but in *lives* due to care rationing and lower quality.
Socialism has never worked in human history. You cannot name so much as a single example. That you would attempt to pretend health care is one is nothing less than massive ignorance.
@@beldiman5870 Im from the UK and we have free health care, but I can assure you that the taxes here are far from 'moderate'
instead of raising the minimum wage, cut taxes in half
Now there's an idea. There has to be a give and take to help balance iut
To cut taxes you have to cut spending. Spending comes first and taxes follow behind. It is not about taxes , it is always about spending, the silent killer. Spending is a poison that tastes so good and goes down so easy.
@@davidking4779 not spending, it is credit i.e. loan
@@dheereshagrwal They are borrowing money to spend, the worst case scenario.
Trump’s tax cuts 💯💯💯
I remember when Venezuela hiked up their national minimum wage to something ridiculous like $30 an hour. Obviously almost all businesses had to close because almost no one can afford that and people could easily see what a poorly thought out idea it was. Yet for some reason when people propose a higher minimum wage here people don't realize it has exactly the same effect.
Things are good for a while until the money runs out...lol!
Wise business owners would close up shop immediately to protect anything they have saved up
If the minimum-wage goes up for the employer there’s no law stating that the profits or sales Will go up to cover the cost !
But you're ignoring the fact that both profit and production have risen steadily for years while wages have remained stagnant.
Kevin S no I’m not, Its supply and demand
The left wants the business itself to make less profit which goes against general capitalist ideas of investment and growth.
When people earn more they can spend more that directly helps buisnesses economics 101
@Martin Purcell no I'm talking about companies whose work force is here in the US
Hmm it’s almost like government coming in to “help” ruins everything. Democratic cities are ridiculous.
Drake Valiance yeah republicans make things way better. LOL compare the standards of living between the democratic and republican states.
@Mark Hannigan That's probably because you watch fox news every evening. Have you actually visited any of these cities? I doubt it. Kinda how most Americans think the middle east and Africa are horrible until they visit. At the end of the day it's your guy who is stirring the pot when it comes to race. Not addressing systemic racism and instead saying things like "There were good people on both sides" while hate crimes are 4x as frequent as they were under previous administrations.
slavbol I agree they are basically the same thing, both trash. How are republicans at all liberal though? Both parties have moved further and further to the right in the past few decades. Democrats are what old republicans were in the 80s while Republicans have become radical fundamentalist right wing extremists.
Stfu kid
@@football77480 true man the 80's are the best when people could actually make compromises now its going to be the president vs senate
1:27 For a minute, I forgot we were living in the biggest scam of all time. Then this reminder came up!
strange how when we first heard about this i told people big companies Like Walmart, Mc Donalds, Target will be able to handle it BUT will cut employee Hours big time.
and small Businesses will suffer.
I'm one who had to let employees go because of wage increase. I loved everyone of my workers but, it was between losing them or losing my entire business.
The sad thing is, the leftists who forced you to lay off your staff by raising minimum wage are the same people who will present you as an evil capitalist who takes people's jobs away.
YOU DO NOT DESERVE EMPLOYEES IF YOU ARE TOO GREEDY TO PAY THEM A LIVING WAGE
J F you’ve never owned a business
J F, some jobs were NEVER meant to provide a “living wage,” but are meant as an interim position for a promotion, or as one directed towards school-age people looking for a job until they can learn another (and not using the job for living expenses.) The market should be 100% about supply/demand. If there’s too much supply, or little demand for “living wages,” than they should be allowed to be under that limit, and be sought after by individuals not using it as a “living occupation.”
Also, LAY-OFF THE ALL CAPS PLEASE! TALKING LOUDER THAN YOUR OPPONENT DOESN’T MAKE WHAT YOU SAY ANY MORE TRUE! POWER DOES NOT EQUAL TRUTH! ... Catch my drift?
@@Turtle5454 You mean, that's not how Capitalism works, don't you? Because we in the USA operate under a Capitalist economic system.
Many civilized countries have tweaked it so that it works better for their citizens.
Well something has to change. Either wages go up or cost of living needs to come way down. Boomers and the next couple generations could buy starter homes and pay for the tuition on summer grocery jobs! Most people can’t live on their own well into their 20s like past generations could. 🤷♀️
That's what these people don't get. They think it's just a matter of people being too lazy to work.
Thanks for the message Simone! Luv from another Seattlite:)) I'm glad to know I'm not the I only person in Seattle who understands these facts. Take care!
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the effects of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
They sure as fck are trying. Minnesota asking the federal government for some moneys after all the "peaceful protests" they let happen 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@M P have you actually read an Ayn Rand book?
I find it ironic that Ayn Rand was sooo against social programs until SHE was the beneficiary of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.
@M P Ayn Rand was sooo against socialist and communist ideology
Exactly, pay your staff so they can live properly.
I've been making this argument to a lot of my friends in the food and restaurant industry. They think a mandatory $15/hr wage is good in NC. I tell them if minimum wage goes up, so does everything thing else plus, say bye bye to your $50+ nightly tips.
That’s pretty much it.
Generally speaking raising the minimum wage of $11.80 to $15 is a huge shock to the system.
They think it’s a good, and for some people it will be. Thoes who work regular hours and won’t see a reduction.
However the states going to see a mass rise in unemployment as business cut cost. And of course expecting employees to work harder for their dollar by cutting hours to get the same job done.
And then of course the raise in the cost of living. Which has a slight negating effect on the wage increase. Which also hurts the middle class. They see no increase, just a cost of living increase.
Really I believe the solution is to reduce the income tax on low income workers.
Yes the government gets less money in that regard, I’m sure they can find a reasonable way to recoup it.
But at leased the low income minimum wage works get the best of both worlds without increasing the cost of living.r
Jamal Jackson Give it up. I've tried but no one will listen. As a medic on an ambulance I have medical training push drugs and do certain medical procedures. I have your loved one's life in my hands. I get $16.20 an hour. My EMT partner is lucky if he gets a fast food workers pay grade. They say if min wage goes up to $15 it will force my wage up. Maybe, it will force my partner's wage up for sure. Now another thing that is not mentioned is wage goes up your employer will be paying additional tax on Social Security. They will also be paying more for workman's comp insurance. So everyone's pay goes up companies raise prices to recoup lost profit and here we are, back to the beginning. Have you had any luck telling your friends this?
Minimum wage wasnt created as a "head of household" wage. It is a starter wage and you work your way up. But since so many are reproducing irresponsibly before getting their careers in order, they end up stopping everything in order to work that minimum wage job while taking care of unplanned kids. And we celebrate single parent households. yay!
marlys mcgregor i think you are confusing “living” wage with minimim wage. Keep trying though.
Irresponsible reproduction is a horrible plague on our society. There's a reason crime rates went down after a certain amount of time following Roe v Wade. Irresponsible breeding ruins everything.
But the question is most of the works is low salary how they can live in livable life? Every thing now ia expensive food renting etc? Its easy to say to you need to improve your skill..but honesty most of the people have no good skills
No, but it should cover basic living expenses which in a lot of places across the country which it does not.
Then why did Franklin D. Roosevelt, the creator of the minimum wage law, say that "no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country" and "by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living"?
They systematically find ways to kill small business and let the big business thrive.
yup. Because a Joes Burger Shack can't afford to pay $15/hr, but McDonnalds or Burger King sure can very, very easily.
Pathway to socialism. 😉
@@Cosmic_Kitten2 not a pathway. The current min. wage invites workers to live off social security and other social welfare programs which quite literally is socialism.
Aaron - well, yeah...that’s actually what I mean. A pathway to full on becoming a socialist country, big, government owned centralized businesses only-no small mom & pop owned businesses.
@@Cosmic_Kitten2 big corporations are rarely government owned lol look at Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, etc. they are if anything the least government owned. Have you ever heard of a monopoly? That's not government-controlled.
If the government stopped giving out welfare and wage subsidies all the mom & pop shops that can't pay their workers a living wage (above $12) would need to shut down.
If anything, the kepeing the minimum wage low forces the government to intervene anyway. Noone is magically making due with $7 an hour.
It cost me mine, several times. SoCal sucks to live in
That's honestly, probably why they let people use EBT there for Burger King, you don't see that kind of stuff happening anywhere but Cali
I’m coming to find Washington is worse than CA but the weather is better. These people are morons up here, just to warn you.
The Absolute Madman stay safe, those violent wackos are frightening.
That's why I am glad I left and never coming back.
Come to Texas, We have more jobs, the insane are on the street not in the capitol, and if the federal government does something stupid, we will just ignore them.
Absolutely infuriating the way arrogant “experts” and “leaders” without the knowledge or skills to run so much as a fkng lemonade stand have the power to destroy the efforts of those who do.
You’re talking about the left right? You know, how they are letting their cities burn? 🤣
Miguel Gonzalez it’s usually leftist/democrats but ultimately I’m referring to whoever is guilty- regardless of ideological claims.
@@damianholmes3049 so that's why they hate Trump because he is successful.. he said it in his speech while running back in 2016.. "I don't have to do this. I have more than enough money to be wherever I want. Do whatever I want. But I love this country and it's people. And I hate to see the lies continue."
Yes! And they don't really LISTEN to the people they "represent."
Facts
Most cities and states have exceptions for people who typically are given tips, as minimum wage is meant to be a floor for a given job. Making not only this case study on the margin of cases, but raises doubts on if she provided all the needed information...
Thanks so much for sharing, Simone. I hope more politicians hear your message.
“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount-and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.” - Thomas Sowell Another thing to note is after introducing the 15/hour min wage in Seattle, the average income of low wage earners DECREASED by $1,500.
Dileon www.nber.org/papers/w23532.pdf
@Dileon all that means is read it with a grain of salt
If you work, you drive buiness, you pay tax, you spend money, you contribute to the economy and you are entitled to a decent share of that economy
Wages do effect productivity
Extensive studies done on the Minimum wage have shown a growth of wages from the bottom perctile
Before the minimum wage was introduced the norm was as higher wages grew lower wages decreased or barely moved
In 1999 this trend was reversed
@Dileon www.gov.uk/government/news/low-pay-commission-publishes-research-on-the-effects-of-the-minimum-wage-on-employment-and-automation
This is in the my country the UK the minimum wage has been a success story
Rising the wages of the lowest paid and have zero effect on employment
When this was being debated back in 2013-2014 I explained how economically this could be damaging to the businesses in Seattle.
One day I hope a gutsy politician makes minimum wage $1 million per hour just to expose the scam once and for all. As an employer adding a bunch of zeros to the end of my asking prices does not bother me one bit because everyone else will do the same, I know minimum wage does not matter. I would however love to watch my employees spend their $40 million paychecks on $35,000 per gallon gasoline and $30,000 loafs of bread and see the light bulbs turn on in their minds once and for all. My favorite part would be watching them pay $18 million in taxes per week since they were now the super-rich. It would be worth the hassle of the price adjustment period just to watch the financial carnage of the poorest workers unravel itself right in front of their own eyes. The Democratic Party is a scam, too bad none of the hoople-heads sees it.
I propose this, that every time the Democratic Party wants to put minimum wage up that someone in the Republican Party offers to quadruple it. Then let's sit back and laugh as the Democrats have to argue the price back down to a lower level. This should cause quite a few cross-side looks and create the need for creative explanations to their voter base. I wish we had the guts to do this as it would be a riot to watch as the mayhem unraveled between the Democratic Party and their constituents, " but the Republicans are offering 4 times that much" LMFAO!!
Looking at the lefties in Twitter, they really are saying stuff like: "Money only has worth because we think it does, so we should just keep printing more money and give it to people and just keep thinking that its worth does not change" and I am sitting here cradling my head in my hands thinking about the hyperinflation, I am an economist so this of course hurts my head.
I don't think the politicians are that stupid, they understand what they do hurts small business and that's their goal. They will raise minimum wage slowly over time so drive out all small enterprises and only have a few business giants employing all the people so that everyone is reliant on the government and big business for their livelihood and there is no more competition left. Then how do we solve our problems? Well, surely the government has the answers right? Their all educated and know allot of things, let's have them tell us what we're supposed to do...
thats not how inflation works. Please read some economic books.
Also we have an inflation rate of 2% per year so it would make sense to increase the salary atleast by that PER YEAR
@@TheChrisaige I'm glad someone said it
@@TheChrisaige which didn't even happen
Just here to remind everyone that CNN completely ignored the murder of David Dorn. R.I.P hero.
A retired police captain in St. Louis. He was black. He was helping his friend defend his store during the “peaceful protests” and was shot and killed by a looter so the thief could steal a tv. His life didn’t matter to the mainstream media because his death doesn’t fit their manufactured “police violence against blacks” narrative.
Wages effectively set themselves... If a wage is too low then people wont do the job. Too high and the business will fail.
MeesterDash but this is common sense which the Democrats do not have 🤯
you guys ever heard the term useful idiots?
Well friends with comments like these thats what you working class schmuks are to ultra wealthy conservatives and corporations... " If a wage is too low then people wont do the job".... hahaha laughable. you know what people make per day in 3rd world countries? $1-5. thats low right? how many people still do those $1-5 /day jobs? Right right... now your beginning to see why saying " If a wage is too low then people wont do the job". is a stupid comment... we need minumum wage. maybe not $15/hr but some level is necessary otherwise ill just pay you anything.
Yellow Tea pot you don’t need to go to a third world country man. Just look in germany, there is no minimal wage. And people still take the job.
@@kventin1705 Germany has one. There are developed countries without a minimum wage, but they have a very strong workers union to compensate for that.
slofool Just a heads up, Germany does have a minimum wage. That’s not to say your point is moot, because there are other European countries which have no minimum wage too
One of my friends asked me for proof that the minimum wage causes unemployment and wanted empirical evidence 🤣 he's a scientist worryingly
I hope he can make a good fortune for being a scientist bcz clearly he won't survive he change job to hospitality-related worker or even a regular salaryman.
Just send your friend a link to this video. Or he can look up info about minimum wage laws and employment. Or he can just browse an economics textbook.
Is that good or bad that he asked?
Send him to any first year economics major at any school. Price floor and the supply/demand curve.
I told him its like me not believing in gravity because he can't show me a study proving gravity exists
Early on, when she said "Seattle", I kinda knew what was coming.
@Emanuel Alejandro Marrero Lol fail, even his stream viewers working in the service industry were countering his rebuttals. Pick someone other than a jobless incel as your source next time okay? xD
Thanks Simone, I wish you and your son the best
I lost my job at a Walmart equivalent chain store back in the 1970s when the minimum wage went up. If I recall, it was $3.35, but I could be wrong. It happened 1 week after the new wage kicked in.
It's understandable that people want a living wage, but the economy is so complex that the government cannot just expect to put a minimum wage just out of the blue without any repercussions.
In my home country Venezuela there were at least two rises of minimum wage each year, in the end we all knew that when a minimum wage was coming, inflation will skyrocket again
No, you have it wrong. Minimum wage increase does not create inflation. Inflation crate incentive for politician to use minimum wage increase as guarantee for their position. The cause of inflation is government overspending.
Bear in mind that inflation won't happen because your boss give you more money. Inflation can only happen because government print more money (to compensate their overspending)
Minimum wage increase do has negative effect as described in the video.
Oh, ok, it also have indirect effect on inflation, but in the form of reduced productivity when business close down (as described in this video).
@@boulderbash19700209 yes and no, it's true that over spending is the first cause of inflation, but when business see the need to increase prizes in order to cope with the constant rising of wages there's inflation too
First, comparing Venezuela's economy to the United States' economy is like comparing a grapefruit to a pickle.
Second we used to have a minimum wage that was a living wage that was the whole point to introducing the minimum wage in the first place back in the 30s as part of FDR's reforms to combat the great depression, the economy is just as complex as it was back then but as FDR said,
"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
You cant do it that often every year like wtf. Here in America the wage has been pretty much the same for 20 years. But prices of things got x2 more. For instance 12 years ago i could get a fast food meal for $5-6 now it $10-12. Gatorade was like $1.60 now is $3.19 Pack of smokes $5 now its almost $9. The list goes on also every year my rent goes up $20 per month. That's only $240 but that's $240 more some people don't have.
@@edgarromero3196 No, it is totally misguided.
When businesses raising prices, inflation is already happened. Businesses just react on it. They are not and never the cause of inflation.
The idea that businesses can raise their prices and causing inflation is government propaganda to put the blame on businesses instead of government as the real source of inflation. That's how Chavez - Maduro can get away with starving Venezuela.
At that time, McD installed kiosks in every restaurant in the U.S. They cut the hours down to compensate the $15 an hour.
"Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help!" = the most terrifying words in the English language, Ronald Reagan
The minimal wage on paper: $15
The real minimum wage: $0
Yeah because no human could ever compete with a robot for menial labor
@@drjamaymay405 They could if the cost of labor was cheaper than the maintenance and installation of robots.
@Wicked Jester At least a robot could spell manual right
@wicked jester
Poor Manuel.
@@TheRisky9 Which would mean that most workers would be earning literally pennies per hour. The maintenance and upkeep cost of a robot is so unbelievable bellow what any human could reasonably be expected to work for that the human could never compete no matter what they minimum wage is.
The only thing keeping humans employed in fields where they could be easily replaced is the high upfront cost of replacing them. And the source of increasing automation in the economy is not workers demanding more, but instead business owners having access to SO much excess funding that the upfront cost of replacing their workers with machines becomes one they can fairly easily afford.
No "my truth" will ever change REALITY. Great video.
She makes some good points, but this situation only applies to her. Like she says it's completely different for someone working at a McDonald's or other big chain. No fry cook is ever gonna get tipped by anybody, period. And I can guarantee not all servers get tipped as much as her. Regardless of whether the business owner can handle it or not, there needs to be a livable wage which doesn't rely on the day-to-day whims of the customers.
Many companies have raised their minimum wage and when you go in them now, there are fewer workers. It's simple math. I worked for a company that raised their minimum wage by $2. They ended up cutting back on staff. That was not enough so they then eliminated some manager positions and I lost my job. Many times when the politicians who have little experience in the real world, even if they have good intentions, get involved in telling private industry how to do their jobs, they often cause more havoc than they had hoped to fix.
Ever wonder why your health insurance is so astronomically high? Government interference. You may think you have a lot take out of your check, but research what your employer is paying on their end for your insurance and something will roll down your pants and hit the floor. Before the government mandated that employers carry insurance, it was affordable, even cheap. Before it happened I was able to go out and by myself good insurance, from well known companies, on a part time salary. A few years later, insurance companies were making money hand over fist with one sale and didn't have to worry about chasing down individual customers by having good prices.
When the Obama administration decided that 35 hours a week was full time and those working it should get benefits, employers couldn't afford it. They cut people down to 29 hours.
Beware of people who have only gotten wealthy because of their status as politicians pontificating on how to run businesses better. They can afford to make horrendous decisions because they will not be affected by them.
All the more reason we need term limits.
Higher minimum wage just bring more people into poverty
It's better to have a job than no job.
@IceXnk6 just learn economics or best start a company in order for you to understand the struggle.. higher minimum wage = higher production costs.. if the revenue isn't enough to cover the expenses then you have a losing business since there's no profit.. to earn profit, you have to either raise the prices of your products or services, or cut costs.. cutting costs can either be laying employees off, or buying cheaper materials.. lay off means less workers BUT you can pay the REMAINING employees the SUFFICIENT pay.. buying cheap materials WILL lead to lower QUALITY of product.. low quality product = less interested consumers.. on the other side of argument.. customers will either pay more for the same old quality or they will pay the same but for less quality..
Asiel MILIAN but unemployment benefits
@@asielmilian38 Yes, so you can have the freedom to work 16 hours a day and also not have enough to feed yourself.
@IceXnk6 Why are you working a job that pays mininum wage? You in HS or have no education? Last time I worked a min wage job was in 92 when I was in HS (It was 4.75 back than). You know what I did after three months of working there after school? I went and found a better paying job for the summer. Yes I had to throw feed sacks and bust my ass to get 7 bucks an hour on weekends, but the point is your not suppose to live off minimum wage. There are always better jobs out there, you just might have to work more hours than some part time job or work harder to earn that money. Hell I'm even a college drop out so I never had to use a paper to get my jobs. I did so on my skills and hard working ethics.
This NEEDS to be a conversation more. idk why the only people who truly talk about this is Bernie and AOC and they are not the type of peopleI want to be talking about this type of stuff.
I love this channel. Glad I found you guys!
What points of the AOC would you argue are wrong? I mean minimum wage did not cause the service sector to suffer, Covid did.
@@TheChrisaige nope, these businesses started closing in 2016, not during COVID-19 pandemic.
www.google.com/amp/s/mynorthwest.com/1536621/rantz-celebrated-seattle-restaurant-closes-minimum-wage/amp/
@Emanuel Alejandro Marrero I mean its a PragerU video no suprises here :D
"15 minimum wage is bad because Seattle made a decision that disproportionally effected restaurant workers." One view point from one person who was affected doesn't mean that 15 dollar minimum wage is bad for everyone everywhere. As they said in their own video "For walmart or microsoft or a large restaurant chain this might not be a problem". It's not a problem for big companies.
Welcome to Oregon. Oregon wait service had this issue before they even had recent minimum wage hikes. Then I moved to Texas. Wait staff sooo much better.
Higher Minimum wage come with higher inflation !
Learn basic economy first before listen to any potilicians offer.
How? Last I checked the government didn't spontaneously start printing more money whenever the minimum wage is increased
@@bennettcarlson3974 printing money isn't the only way inflation happens. If consumers have more money available to spend businesses will increase the price of their goods.
Dewaldt that right, i just too lazy to type it for @bennet carlson
To those that replied to "D Rapas" comment: As minimum wage increases the employer has to pay more for workers. This cost is partially recovered by raising prices of their product or service. Therefore, The Grocery Market is a great example. Most people that buy a bacon argue that the price either has not gone up or has only slightly. However, They never look at how many ounces / pounds they are getting for the money. Next time your in the store compare prices to how much your actually getting. Currently you cannot buy a pound of bacon as they have all reduced the amount that comes in the packages. You will see this with other products too. Its not the fact that because people have more money that drives the price up. Its the fact that the increase in income has to be paid by the employer in some way. They either decrease their working staff, Cut hours or raise prices for goods and service.
Evidently Economics is no longer being taught in school.
North Point and this is the sad realety and truth why the left gets so many braindead viters who wants free stuff and better pay. They dont know betyer cause they havent been taught sry for spelling Eng is my second language
The minimum wage increase is a tool of monopolies, as it encourages centralization of jobs.
Loved this video! Very enlightening!
Same thing happened in Canada, employees were fired or had reduced hours. Prices for groceries and such went up and people were upset with the BUSINESS for the prices going up, they completely missed the connection to the problem
When you raise the minimum wage? You raise the cost of everything minimum wage employee's handle and process; which is EVERYTHING! A 2x4 is handled by an average of 15 people between the time the tree is cut down and when it's nailed in it's final location. You are paying the wages of everyone who brought it to you!
Japan actually teaches that in schools. Every product should be treated with the respect of 30 people because it most like took that many to make it
@@novanppp And if we really wanted to push for a society where all people are appreciated? It should be that! Teach some appreciation to society and the respect to carry it on! And see we're all in this s**tshow together! ;P
@@novanppp That's actually really cool.
It's as Milton Freedman said no one single person could make that 2X4 the way it was made. To include building all the logging equipment, building all of the milling equipment, operating all of that equipment, building and operating all the equipment to transport the raw materials and final product. It is impossible for one person to know enough to do all of that with any level success.
@@barrettfenwick8028 How anout if we were to push fopr a society where people had a grasp of reality? Minimum wage laws have literally *never* done anything but harm, to workers, primarily becuase they are *already appeciated.* It is economically impossible to underpay workers.
"Facts are stubborn things" -John Adams
I say this a lot. Those who want $15 min wage says that everyone is entitled to a living wage. OK what is a living wage? What you need to live. Which means food, shelter, and clothing. With that you can live. In my area you can have a living wage at $10 an hour. In NYC you are no where near a living wage at $15 an hour. And what I use for a living wage is just that, just living, nothing extra
Agreed, the thing is people don't understand why they can't survive on "minimum wage." We used to tax things based on one person in a household working to provide for mother and children back home. Then the government began taxing enough that both parties needed to work. It's not JUST the taxes on the employee's paycheck either and it all adds up to making sure that you're dependent on teaming up with someone to keep the bills paid. :( Their solution to raise min wage doesn't correct that, it's a bandaid. They don't get that though sadly.
The problem is that if a society does not have minimum wage than employers can force employees to work for nothing. See Qatar , where all the nice sky scrapers are build by taking advantage of desperate workers from other countries, paying them the promised salary at the end of the work year....if they do pay them the promised amount.
Bel Diman not paying people the promised salary is a violation of contract and grounds for suit; if this is impossible in Qatar then it is a problem with the legal system, not with a lack of a minimum wage.
@Rick Vis I agree with you. I also thought we were going to see a real discussion here until you got told you are an insensitive pig. You do not need to go out to live. Extra treats? pick up an extra odd job or two. Why do you need money for holidays? One of my enjoyable fourth of July is when I threw everything on my back and disappeared into the woods for three days. Spent many a holiday with family and friends just enjoying their company. Another time a group of us camped overnight at the "rocks". Don't know how much time I've spent over the years splashing around in the creek or the river. And of course I have had friends better off than me who have seen me working hard and took me along on an adventure. It's called making the best of a bad situation. It's called taking what you have and doing the best you can. It's called looking at the positive parts of your life. And right now I am doing that because of something I am going through. I will share if you like, but I share not for sympathy but to hopefully inspire or give hope to those just as bad off. And to stay positive. With my present situation if yo can see me looking positive, laughing and planning a future perhaps that will help someone eles feel better.When you start looking at the positive things in your life you start to get a positive attitude and people can feel that.
@@jamesbancroft2467 Of course not paying the promised salary should be illegal but trying to cheat on employees salary is getting more and more acceptable among managers. My point is that in the way things are going, after getting rid of the minimum wage, the elimination of a legal work contract is the next step. I am afraid that in the future they will offer positions without a legal payment contract....but wait a minute, they already have that, its called unpaid Internships, where young, optimistic people are made to work for free in the hope of getting ahead in their careers. In some places they have zero hours contracts, where employees are only paid for the nr of hours worked. You never know how many hours of work you will be paid for on a daily basis, you travel to work and they can tell you, today we pay you for 2 hours, or 4 hours or no hours of work for you today, thanks for coming... I worked in a bank like that, not a restaurant, a bank.
I used to have 15 workers, now I have 8. That means 7 are now on benefits from the taxpayer. I'm not a charity, I expect to make a profit and get a decent return. The ones who were laid off were the ones who joined the protests. Now they have no wages !
For another example, look what happened to South Korea since it aggressively raised their minimum wage. Increased income inequality and higher unemployment levels.
IceXnk6 instead of arbitrarily raising the minimum wage, why not focus on rebuilding the manufacturing sector so people can have rewarding and value adding jobs instead of being stuck in dead end jobs with low pay? It seems far more sensible than just raising the minimum wage.
If anybody bothered to read Thomas Sowell's work, they would know that minimum wage needs to stay where it is. Then again, nobody reads anymore anyway, as sad as that is.
I disagree: it should be eliminated altogether. If you don't EARN $5/hr, you don't GET $5/hr.
Basic economics!
GMF if it is abolished companies would make more money, while there would be workers working at $1 per hour or less, that is total crap
@@FirstnameLastname-wl6ux or you can go to different companies that pay more than 1 dollar....You have your choices and responsibility and not big mama government that you try to create.
Aleks Aleks what stops them from all paying $1? Nowhere to go now
Today I went to a supermarket in my hometown after months of not visiting.
I saw machine checkout lanes and far fewer cashiers. The store was just as busy as before.
I've stopped going to restaurants who charge me a service fee or raised their prices to where the amount of food isn't compariable to their price hikes. I live in Seattle and a lot of places have gone out of business everywhere due to the wage hike. I can't wait for Amazon to leave now the local government has placed a head tax.
Sounds to me like wait staff spit on your food.
150 comments and it hasn’t even premiered yet....
@Life of Sawdust No, people were actually talking in the comments section a while before it aired.
Abolish the Minimum Wage NOW!
You have to take into account the number of people simultaneously.
Abolish tipping now...
@@limeyprat Why??
"if a $5 increase in minimum wage is good, why not $10, or a hundred?" - milton friedman
Martin Purcell inflation hasn't nearly doubled in the past two decades, had it?
"Thirsty? A cup of water is good, why not 10 cups or a hundred?" This is an incredibly dumb argument. I think workers should be paid the FULL value of their labor - not more, not less. (capitalists must pay their workers less than the value they add, otherwise they wouldn't make a profit - what happens to the capitalist when the workers add $20 of value and get paid 20$? Nothing left over!) I think workers shouldn't get hundreds of dollars an hour the same way I think jeff bezos shouldn't be accumulating millions of dollars while he sleeps.
@Martin Purcell can you post the source that explains that? Perhaps I'm not understanding, then. Thanks in advance.
V V it’s called purchasing power, and it has remained stagnant for most Americans since the 50’s..
Martin Purcell this is a really good read (The Balance). thanks, Martin! i'll read both.
Wow, i didnt know this side of the story. Thanks for the video. Keep making more.
And the skill guy who made $15 before wants $22 now.
Exactly...it will just create a snowball effect increasing all wages eventually wich will adjust prices up accordingly so we are right back at the starting point
Why should some one get tip, when making 15 an hour. I wouldn't go to a restaurant, if I knew they paid their workers 15 an hour, and charged a tip service charge.
Tips are stupid in general, why should i pay you extra for doing your job? whats worse is when people shame you into tipping
In Washington, the servers are already paid minimum wage and then receive whatever the customer wants to tip them. Our non-SeaTac minimum wage is $13.50. It’s a virtual certainty that a waiter at a fairly busy restaurant will make no less than $25 per hour. All to bring you your food and keep your glass full.
My point being that if you want to eat in any Washington restaurant, that’s the reality of the server making $13.50 or $15 per hour.
@@gtamatt1 honestly makes me want to question why I even bothered to go tot college and get a hard job while I could have just eaten tips. plus tips culture is inherently racist and discriminating towards gender as there is clear inequality.
M P I’m sure there are plenty of people out there that tip people who look like them more than those who don’t.
I know when I was a young single man, I tipped good looking girls better than anyone else.
As a german I can say there are two problems with the current minimum wage system in america.
1. drastic increase (58%wtf)
2. tipping (I would pay up to 50% more If I didnt have to tip. Germany is the same)
I hate tipping its stupid, why do I have to pay you extra for doing your job and what's worse is when you're shamed into tipping. I lived a while in japan and i loved it there cuz no one tips as they are paid their wages in general and its their job.
@@Nchinnam You're absolutely correct. This has made me simply avoid eating at restaurants for the last year, but recently they've been closed in any case.
Tipping and the use of outdated measures instead of the standard ones are the two things I hate the most about the US. Seriously I have enough of yours feet, inches, miles, gallons, pounds and Fahrenheit degrees.
@Kate GIbs come to america wtf???
Thank you for speaking the truth!
Instead of raising wages, cut product costs. Corporations have continued to increase prices and landlords are trying to become millionaires off the poor man, till half of poor mans pays half his wage in rent.
when I worked at Walmart and they took us from 10$ an hour to 11$ an hour my hours went from 40 hours a week with some overtime sometimes to 32 hours a week and never any overtime. they'd even ask you to stay over and then make you take a 2 hour lunch to cut time
You can't work menial labor jobs with intentions of earning even remotely close to a living wage. You are disposable, you have no job security, go get a stable job or don't get a job.
Dr Jamaymay welcome to late stage capitalism, where the worker is just a replaceable object.
@@drjamaymay405 Everyone's got to start somewhere though, even education and training takes a certain amount of investment
@@edgar9359 the bar of entry will only rise, just like is has been
@@drjamaymay405 I made money enough to live on, it's easy to do when you live within your means and stay out of debt. what I'm saying is that every time we got a raise they would cut hours so we wound up making exactly the same amount
Well I'm not surprised to hear that coming from my home state Washington
A lot of the issues relate to appreciation, expectation, and advancement....
For instance I see people that make nearly twice as much as me doing work nearly twice as easy complaining about how terrible their jobs are... It isn't that the job is that terrible. It is that they expected better. It is that they lack appreciation... It is that they feel trapped in that spot without access to advancement...
Likewise many employers will ignore quality employees due to high expectations from, lack of appreciation for, and unwillingness to advance that employee.
Mutual low expectations with high appreciation and willingness to advance each others interests with ones own efforts and responsibilities is key to a successful economy...
They also think in false terms... You say it will close down small businesses and they say "Amazon can afford it"... Amazon isn't a small business... Amazon can afford it, but we don't want massive corporations to be the only businesses that can survive the economic environment we establish... Amazon started with less than $300,000. The best big businesses are success stories from small businesses. We need to cultivate an environment in which the small business can thrive also. When they say "If their business can't survive paying a living wage than there is a problem with their business model" (I used to think like this) the next answer is the most obvious one when I realized it.
The problem isn't that the wages are low. It is that the living expense to wage ratio is high. The solution is to drive cost of living down rather than driving wages up... That has no negative impacts on the economy, no negative impacts on small businesses, and all the same benefits to establishing a living wage.
For me it is about freedom and responsibility, not who can afford what. I think people often look at the wrong end of the spectrum.
I agree with the premise, though I have issues with our societal expectations around tipping, especially when it is viewed in a percentage context. I wish they would have used a different occupation as an example.
it sounds good The minimum wage is going up but it's actually bad
Honestly
Couldn’t be very bad, we’ve got sticky wages. The inefficacy of the current minimum wage is because of sticky wages which didn’t catch up to inflation. In the scope of things money will just move around. If that results in creative destruction, all the better.
@Fuert Neigt Exactly! If you want to lower unemployment, then get rid of minimum wage! Minimum wage laws are pricing workers out of the market.
If the minimum wage is $15, then you need to be productive enough to make $15 an hour. People who have never had a job are not productive enough to make $15 an hour, which means that they will not be hired. However, if there would be no minimum wage, then they could get hired for $8 an hour or $7 an hour.
Then, if they get better at their job and become more productive, then their wages will increase (because their employers will want them to stay in their company. If they don't increase that persons wage, then the person can move to another job, where he/she will earn more money).
@IceXnk6 Companies will not hire many workers if the minimum wage is $15 an hour, because they can't afford to pay that much money.
This means that companies will fire workers to save money = higher unemployment.
Best minimum wage is $0/h
That's slavery
No such thing as free labor
@@akihikosakurai4013 no moron. It's called you get paid for the work you do. You're not entitled to a certain amount, Just because you think you are.
@@akihikosakurai4013 stfu and make sure my diet coke and fries are in the bag with my Whopper
@@skorch3590 Article 23 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
You're a bit dim aren't you.
Funny thing about youtube. This is the first Prager vid I've seen here in weeks and I'm subscribed. I'm not subscribed to crowded and I still see his vids on my suggested feed. Tim Poole even more, same situation. Others I subscribe to pop up fine. Just a thought.
I made $15.75 an hour living in Texas, and after your benefits (healthcare, dental etc) plus tax deductions (Social security,federal,medicaid) are taken out of your paycheck you really don't make that much.
I’ve adjusted my tipping downward. If my wife and daughter and I go to dinner, it’s likely a $60 tab. Nowadays, I just tip 10%. If the waiter only had my family as customers for that hour, they would have made $19.50 an hour. Pretty good work for no skill. If there were three tables in the hour and they behaved like me, that waiter has now made $31.50 per hour. The point is, minimum wage did not need to increase for these workers. They were already doing well.
There needs to be the realization that one size fits all is not the way to run the country.
What is funny and not in a ha ha way is when I was a child a tip was 10% It went to 15% and now they want 20%. They want that tip no mater what type of service they give. I give a tip based on the type of service you give me. I have paid more than 20% too. One time the back of house screwed up my order. Prime rib and it wasn't cooked right. The server went out of her way to make my order right. They even offered me anything I wanted and no charge. By that time I wasn't hungry. I had ate my appetizer, sides and bread. W only had to pay for my wife's meal. I think the whole bill was like $15. I gave the server a $10 tip. She couldn't believe it. I told her I wasn't going to punish her for what they did in the kitchen. And i have to wonder if the person in the kitchen did it on purpose. Prime Rib takes time to make and it's not just one severing at a time.
The server isn’t getting all of your tip. At the end of the night, the server has to tip out to the bussers and expos, based on a percentage of their sales, out of their tips. So if they sold $1000 worth of food that night, they might pay 50 dollars to the bussers. This means your 10% tip is going to be a even less. If a server gets stiffed, they still have to tip out to the busser so they actually lose money on that table.
A restaurant owner doesn't make 10% gross, I don't know why a waiter should make more gross than the owner and takes no risk. If the owner loses, does the waiter then pay the owner?
David King waiter takes risk. You might show up for a lunch shift, work for 2 hours prepping the restaurant before opening, and then lunch is dead and you get sent home making no money. You also risk getting stiffed or poorly tipped while also providing good service. The customer is essentially paying for good service, instead of the restaurant owner paying that salary. I’m sure a lot of restaurant owners enjoy seeing waiters provide great service that the owner does not need to pay for. Restaurant owners have the benefit of being able to not worry so much about how many hours employees get because they don’t have to cover their wages. There’s lots of benefits for both the owner and the employee and the customer because of tipping.
@@Drew-fu8fc Salaries are subsidized by tipping which allows the owner to pay less and have well compensated employees. By at risk I refer to losing money, which a waiter never does. A waiter may make more or less depending on the day but never works at a loss. Restaurants depend on the good service a waiter provides, without it the restaurant will be unsuccessful. I live in a Country were tips are mandatory and added into the bill, later to be divided among the staff. It means there is no personal reason to provide good service. That is how socialism works.
Seeing how "rich" people became overnite with the new law, I don't doubt that landlords raised the rent on their apartments too.
Rent price hike has different causes that hardly have anything to do with minimum wage.
@@boulderbash19700209 Can you name some of these causes? I got the feeling that land lords will increase the rent simply because they think you can afford to pay more.
@@beldiman5870 Landlord raise their rent regardless you can pay the rent or not. It's supply and demand, which in big cities (but more pronounced in California cities) is caused by depleting supply in the form of rent control and building restriction.
@Despiser Despised but wouldn't rent be more affordable if government didn't regulate it? If let them compete for the dollar, i have a feeling there would be a lot more great deals on living spaces
Seattle caps how often a landlord can raise the rent, and how much they can raise it by. More importantly, landlords are governed by lease agreements; the amount of rent for the unit dictated in the lease agreement is the amount of rent the tenant pays, or else the city issues a substantial fine when you lose the lawsuit (and you will lose the lawsuit because the lease agreement exists). This is why you don't ever want a 1 month (month-to-month) lease; it affords you no protection from rent increases.
What about people who were payed $9 an hour but don't get tips? Like factory workers and low level retail workers? Do they deserve to get paid so little?
Yes. That is the value of their labor.
Still the same effect really. Hours will be cut, people would work less.
@@dewaldt8104 No its not its should be $15 now a days that's like saying people should still make 50 cents per hour......... Minimum wage has been that same for the past 15-20 years almost. But yet 13 years ago you could buy a MacDonald's meal for $5 now its $10-12 prices are going up with that said company's are making more but still paying people the same. They can A. drop prices of B. Pay more another issue is credit cards they give a illusion of wealth people without money can still buy stuff. But if we had no credit cards and people could not use money from thin air people would not be buying as much because people don't get payed right would make these greedy company's suffer. More money always = more spending more spending = more money for company's.
@@user-zz5rk7xc4w Why does it matter if they are female or not. And i stated this already i can see people making that during some nights. I mean when me and my family go out to eat we tip $20 and most waiters do more then just 1 table at a time.
@@WayneTwitch no it is. If you are working for 7,25 dollars an hour, it means that you could not get a job where anyone was going to pay you 7,50 an hour. So now if the government comes and artificially increase the cost of your labour, all your employer will do is fire you or if he is kind he will only cut your hours.
Your case is an exception, and most people don't work in restaurants.
I heard the restaurant industry is the second largest employer after give in the US.
You can have plentiful jobs or higher wages, but not both.
The focus should be on encouraging competition among the free market to drive down costs of living.
Instead, what we have is heavily regulated capitalism that drives companies overseas, removing opportunities from Americans.
Don’t forget monopolies
When I hear about I want more money. How about you go above and beyond your job. See what happens. For the most, the results will surprise you.
How about saving some money and planning spending?
@@pariahstat2683 This too. Invest in retirement and stocks/bonds to help your money grow.
LMAO. 'just work harder, IDIOT'. 'If you're poor, it's because you're lazy'. Struggling to get by working 6 days a week? it's not the fault of the people paying you less than a living wage for a full-time job, while making hundreds of times more money than you do. It's yours. Maybe you should work TEN DAYS a week - that way you might be able to afford a comfortable living. After a certain point, when productivity has been rising for decades but wages have stagnated, you have to wonder who blaming everything on the workers benefits: the owners? or the workers?
@@mycroftholmes3725 "while making hundreds of times more money than you do." The politics of N.V. Yes, there be a few people that make hundreds of times what you make. Luck, skill, determination. You may not have what it takes to rise, but it is easy enough to pull someone down. That's why crabs in an open bucket cannot escape.
@@mycroftholmes3725 I can only speak from the small business perspective cause I observe P&L sheets. If you think we are making bank, think again. These larger companies probably do need to look at redistributing wealth from other expenses, like advertising. Yes, I have worked a 10 day work week. In fact I worked for nearly 2 months with no day off. Not saying its a competition, but I don't need a lecture about how many days you or I worked.
Also, raising the minimum wage makes everything like groceries and toilet paper more expensive
Who's here after Joe Biden announced he would raise the minimum wage to $15 dollars on a federal scale?
Still waiting for it to happen, though.
@@StealthGamer37
Dont get ur hopes up
@@StealthGamer37
He's not gonna do it
@@StealthGamer37
and even if he does
*Inflation would destroy it*
he only did it for federal contractors lol
minimum wage has costed many there jobs and soon it might turn those who lose there jobs into criminals
I can literally feel the hard work done by the editor in a 5 mins video.
I will be playing this to my Senior Economics classes.
Here is oppression: I want to pay someone $5 to do some very simple work for me. I find a young person who likes the opportunity to earn a little bit and also get job experience. That young person wants to work for the $5 per hour. So we have a free agreement in which we both feel it is a fair deal. But now the government says, "It doesn't matter that you both agree freely. We say you have to pay $15/hour." The job I'm offering is not WORTH that much. And so I simply don't hire. This is called a "restraint of trade" and it is the law of the land. It is oppressive. Goodbye freedom.
Why start the premier so early?
Gary McMichael I guess so.
Some groups don’t make any money on RUclips. They have been demonetized because RUclips believes their content is “dangerous”. PragerU works mostly on donations I believe.
How did four people already dislike when it hasn't started
Willful ignorance.
Liberals
people who know the video is going to provide literally no arguments other than "minimum wage, along with other things, hurt me specifically, so regardless of actual statistics or data we shouldn't do it"
The same issue is troubling Australia too... Labour cost gets so high that nothing much is made in Australia anymore.
When the minimum wage went to $15 an hour where I'm at, the massive increase I have gotten in my pay was very noticeable. Sure I've noticed a few things I usually buy increase in price a bit, but I have way more money in my pocket now. I understand the arguments against it, but for me, $15/hour has made an enormous positive change in my life. I'm in my 40's, working retail. I've actually lowered how many hours I work now (less than 20 hours/week) because I don't need to work as much to get the same income. There are many arguments for and against it, each job sector will be affected differently. But personally? It's been great. Just understand how HUGE of a difference it can make to people making minimum wage.
Good for you. The increase didn't affect you, as you had experience and I imagine you've proven valuable to your employer. The issue arises when one wants to enter the job market. That $15/hour mandate may remove an opportunity for a teenager or say a college student working to pay tuition. The barrier to entry is much higher the higher the wage is.
A fair arrangement is a agreement between you(the employee) and the boss(the employer), and government should stay out of it. And only step in if asked like cause of criminal activity
Wait so you’re saying the market will adapt to the min wage? Who woulda thought
Yes, by destroying businesses, removing jobs, cutting hours for remaining jobs, increasing prices, and destroying the ability for young people to enter the workforce.
Brilliant. You couldn't destroy the entire economy better if you tried.
Yes the larger corporations which the left loathes will adapt, and those smaller businesses will flounder and close forever, great choice.
I've seen the minimum wage raised from $2.75 hour 2 a whopping $10 an hour and still going up to 15 you're in Colorado Springs. Every time they raise the minimum wage restaurants have closed, people with good income lose their increased percentage and watch their rent Skyrocket. Every time the minimum wage was increased some of whiny young person who is made a lot of mistakes in their life the man the minimum wage to be increased because they "can't live off of minimum wage". Minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. It was always intended to be a starting point for people getting started in Workforce. But because he keep raising the minimum wage more and more people who have been working hard to get ahead in the world wind up stuck exactly where they were when they started. Raising the minimum wage is insane. We need to lower the minimum wage back down to a dollar an hour and eventually and eliminate it. By slowly eliminating the minimum wage we can make the American dollar strong again.
When wages go up so does workers comp, FICA match, unemployment insurance, SDI, and other business expenses that don't get mentioned. If was just the wage itself maybe a few more businesses might survive.