Mary Poppins Quits: The Rebuttal (w/ Remy)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- ReasonTV's Remy provides a chimney sweep's response to Kristen Bell's minimum wage parody video.
Approximately 1:20 minutes.
Written and performed by Remy. Produced by Todd Krainin. Music tracks by Ben Karlstrom.
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LYRICS:
So they'll raise the price of me
How happy I will be
It's great!
I've been
Replaced by a machine...
I don't mean to sound too partial
You're forgetting, Sarah Marshall
Unintended consequences of these laws
But I agree with what you say
Rich people they should pay
Their share!
Their part!
Not take cash on Kickstart--
Just 3 pages of Econ
And perhaps your mind will change
When free people arrange
Voluntary exchange
Just 3 pages of Econ
With this talk of "living wage"...
Tell me, what do you folks pay?
I love when places that offer employment for less then the minimum wage lobby to increase the minimum wage!
Looks good to the plain eye
"Strong writing skills" to be an unpaid intern at Funny or Die? I'm not sure which part of that sentence is funnier. Either way, it's definitely not their videos
We should teach economy at schools instead of the stuff we do. Maybe people would be smarter.
I was trying to explain to a friend why a higher minimum wage would actually hurt the poor, young, and unskilled worker it's intended to help by showing and explaining to him the supply and demand graph of the labor market and the corresponding graph of a perfectly competitive firm when an effective price floor is added but he pretty much shot me down by saying economics shouldn't come into play when a person's wellbeing is at stake. He didn't care that it would put so many people out of work or that it would shut down a lot of small businesses as long as those who manages to keep their jobs are earning more and a large chunk is being taken out of "corporate pigs' wallets".
There are so many problems with that line of thought.
they won't ever agree til their really horrible ideas shuts down all transport and farming.. and they are starving... then the left will shift to blaming conservatives all over again.
Dude I don't know what you are smoking. But we have had a generous minimum wage in Australia since I have been here (20+ years). The labor market is doing great, low unemployment, we actually need to import about 100K skilled migrants a year. If we had no minimum wage we would have a whole class of the working poor and that is terrible for everyone. . . a true dystopia where working people would be going from their jobs to the soup kitchens to try feeding their kids . . . no thanks.
BTW I say that as someone who has owned small business and who would have financially benefitted from paying people peanuts,
I've owned businesses. I can tell you that raising the minimum wage does increase prices. Maybe it won't hurt big corporations that much, but it definitely will hurt small businesses, which is an entity that employs about 80% of the American population.
My son and I both lost minimum wage jobs here in California. The two companies we were working for headed off for states where labor is cheaper. Thanks, California voters! Please send cash.
First Michael Moore's 9 houses and now this, it's been a great week!
Don't forget how he purposely choose non union over union employees who got paid lower wages for the making of Capitalism: A Love Story. Talk about irony. Yes, Mr. Moore, he was choosing profit over helping the needy.
Never forget this.
More importantly: never let them forget this.
***** Just a cursory reading of basic economics (Just 3 pages of Econ really) would disprove the notion that increasing minimum wages will actually help low wage workers overall.
Increasing the minimum wage will do nothing to magically increase the amount of money that companies have on hand to pay workers with. It will results in jobs being lost or replaced by other sources (either by outsourcing or by automation).
Corporations are not covens of Warlocks and witches making money out of thin air that you can some how extort to get more money out of them.
Charles Hammond Jr You probably grunt about people on welfare, too.
billo321 It's not like I'm barely scratching by myself while paying a fair amount of my money paying taxes (of which 60% of it pays for other people to get things) right?
OH WAIT
Great answer. It's particularly ironic that she picks on CEOS when it's career politicians who never work an honest day's work.
Good point the average CEO not only has put in the years to acquire the degree but years of experience working their way up in an organization typically from the bottom..they work far harder than many of the actors playing the part of condemning them. Typically these folks work 70 hour weeks, weeks of time away from their families in meetings all over the globe and on a daily basis try to grow their businesses and care quite a bit about taking care of their employees so that they in turn take care of the customers.
Some do. Just not enough of them!
I think the average president puts in far more time golfing, vacationing, and fund raising than most CEO's.
Because the politicians are too busy trying to get CEO's to donate so CEO's can tell them not to tax corporations and keep the money and not give raises to workers, only to themselves.
I love the way Thomas Sorwell put it.
To paraphrase:
There is no way a company will put up with paying low skill workers $15/h when they can hire medium skill workers for the same amount for the same job.
And there'll be plenty of middle class people available to hire, because there's no way a medium/high skill, middle-class worker would do medium/high skill jobs, when they can work a minimum wage, low skill job for basically the same pay but for far less responsibilities and stress.
Recent headlines:
Wendy’s joining the trend to replace ‘raise the wagers’ with self service kiosks:
Well? Where is the left slogan and catchy chants?
Rebuttal?
Remy is 100% concentrated awesome. Too bad a thousand times as many people will see the Kristen Bell video from Funny Or Die.
Some New Yorkers are displeased with one of the more predictable outcomes of a $15 minimum wage-restaurants all over the city are raising their prices, according to the New York Post.
The city's minimum wage went up to $15 from $13 or $13.50 at the beginning of 2019, boosting the paychecks for numerous lower-wage workers.
Those who rely on restaurants regularly for their daily lunches, however, aren't as happy.
"It's obnoxious-kind of a slap in the face," Starbucks patron Edward Beck told the Post. "Another increase, and I won't come back."
What's going on?
Restaurants are raising prices to adjust for the higher salaries they must pay workers. But, they're increasingly worried about discouraging customers with too-high prices.
"[Restaurants] feel they're getting to a point where the customer might reject the higher prices, choose a different way to eat out, or eat their own food," said Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York State Restaurant Association.
Making matters worse, the minor increases NYC restaurants are implementing aren't totally making up for the higher minimum wage. Jon Bloostein, founder of a Manhattan chain restaurant, said there need to be more changes by businesses to afford the raise-but they were given very little time to adjust.
"It's too much too fast, said Jeremy Merrin, founder of the Havana Central restaurant in Times Square. "The shock of raising [the wage] at that rate in that short time-you just can't catch your breath."
As Jazz Saw wrote for Hot Air, this was all painfully predictable:
"None of this required an Ouija Board to figure out. If the government artificially drives up labor costs, the restaurants (who always operate on very thin margins) were going to have to make up for that surge in costs someplace. They could either fire some of the staff, reduce the hours they work, or raise prices. Usually, it was going to be some combination of all of them. But you can only operate a business with a skeleton crew for so long."
theblaze.com/news/some-new-yorkers-arent-happy-that-15-minimum-wage-has-increased-food-prices
Nunovya Biznez does minimum wage apply to restaurants? What about tips? Can’t restaurants pay a lot of their staff under the minimum because of tips?
This is one of Remy's very best. The smack down of hypocrisy tickles me to no end.
Wonder how long before someone says this is blackface.
This is encouraging. Maybe Remy can still become my country’s Prime Minister (Canada)!
RUclips recommending a Remy video i haven't seen before is like finding a 20 in my coat pocket.
Just as long as no one is under threat of force, Remy can take the money of whomever he wants it from.
But Kristen can't??
Only part of the song that’s not accurate: the word “unintentional consequences”. There’s no reason to give the people who make these laws the benefit of the doubt that they meant well… they (very frequently) know exactly what they’re doing.
If minimum wages worked then why not make the minimum wage 200k salaries??? If that won't work then why would any other number work?
With raising of minimal wage, the consequences are clearly a) unemployement and b) inflation. Congrats, that's what really helps those in need :D
At Boston restaurant Spyce, robots will cook your meal in about three minutes.
WBZ-TV reported that the restaurant - conceived by four MIT engineering students and launched with French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud - was inspired by “something we learned in school.”
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The kitchen is run by robots, which cook meals using a “sautéing technique,” and are assisted by human food preppers.
“We did a lot of classes that involved robots doing different tasks,” one of the students, Brady Knight, said.
He added, “The way our robot cooks it sort of uses a sautéing technique and it cooks a personalized meal for you in like 2.5 minutes.”
Customers enter the restaurant, and use a touch-screen ordering system to punch in their customized order.
Customers can also watch while the robots prepare their meals and humans place the finishing touches.
Dishes offered include Thai, Moroccan, and Indian fare, and more.
“You can get in line, order and be out the door in three minutes or less,” Knight said, noting that each meal bowl goes for about $8.
Grace Uvezian, Spyce’s head of marketing and public relations, said that the concept was intended to provide people healthy, affordable, and efficient food choices.
“Our purpose is to increase access to wholesome and delicious food for people at all income levels,” Uvezian said. “When our founders were undergraduates at MIT, they couldn’t afford to spend $10 to $12 on one meal and knew they weren’t alone. Too many people were being priced out of quality. Spyce is at the intersection of hospitality and technology; by combining appropriately sourced ingredients with our robotic kitchen, we’re able to provide meals at $7.50.”
Spyce opens Thursday at 241 Washington St. in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, according to Eater.
This rebuttal has more views that the original. "Well that's awkward."
Nicely done :)
Brilliantly done! I see several have thumbed-down this video... obviously they're not libertarians!
Between Remy Munasifi and *****, things get awkward for Mary Poppins and Funny or Die
Just 3 pages of econ LOL I LOVE IT! I feel like people werent paying attention in econ class in high school or not everyone take it or something?
**genuflects**
I bow at the altar of Remy!
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. Good book.
Let's see; Kristen Bell has an estimated net worth of $16M (mostly thanks to the Frozen movie), production for Veronica Mars cost $6M, and total worldwide box office for it was just shy of $3.5M... I don't think it's very hard to see why Bell didn't fund the production entirely on her own. Not many people are willing to take a $2.5M loss on a project just to give back to their fan base.
[*sings] "And with this job she freely took, which affords more than a dive,
Free room ... and board ... plus $7.25 ..."
Machines replacing people has always been an inevitable part of humanity. it happens whether u a raise a wage or not.
In this case though, there was always jobs for people to use those machines. Self checkout is the opposite, the customer is the worker.
The reason why you can't afford a nanny, or to have your gas pumped for you, or to pay a young person to mow your grass, is because of the minimum wage. Because of minimum wage, opportunities are destroyed for the elderly, the unskilled, the young, and even more tragically, the mentally handicapped. Because hiring these good folks costs more than they bring in value, the job simply isn't there. Small businesses cannot absorb the loss. Despite what you may believe, many elderly people would be willing to work at a low wage to do easy, dignified jobs to supplement their pensions and retirement incomes.
I think people fail to realize that blind empathy for humans without the knowledge that economics is a fragile balance beam leads to this idiocracy. I have no doubt that people who want to raise the minimum wage do it out of empathy and that's wonderful. But this is the economic center not empathy and if actually Belive that economics will bend to your will because your cause is empathatic it just hurts people.
'Liberal' economist agree that raising the minimum wage pushes marginal workers out of a job. This is empirically proven (over and over again).
I have always hated the Kristen Bell video. This one was so much better, and the Thomas Sowell shoutout was just icing.
0:27 Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is finding this out the hard way...
Clever, and some good points. Though I'd argue that the complex effect that raising the minimum wage would have on the economy can't be adequately understood with 3 pages of econ.
its actually incredibly simple. You cant increase the value of the bottom of the market when the current market cant fucking afford the current value.
When the price of something goes up, people consume less of it.
When the price of unskilled labor goes up, people employ less of it.
It takes a lot less than three pages.
I think its a bit more complex than a simple supply and demand argument, but still not so complicated it takes more than 3 pages to explain.
So lets think about a business that mostly employs low skilled labor. That business has a person who has been there for 10 years producing $20 of product an hour. They have a person who has been there for 5 years producing $18 of product an hour. They have a new employee producing $2 of product an hour.
Respectively, they are getting paid $14, $12, $2 per hour without a minimum wage. This means $10 per hour for other miscellaneous expenses and my own pay. On the last employee, I am breaking even.
Lets raise the minimum wage to $8 per hour. This means I would now be taking a hit on the new employee as they learn the trade. It will probably pan out after a couple months. In order to compensate for this I either have to take away from the bottom line, reduce the pay of other employees, or increase prices. Increasing prices too sharply too soon will reduce business reducing the net output as well. So, I do a combination of both, reduce pay by $2 per hour and lose $2 from my pay as the price of rent and materials will not decrease.
Now lets raise minimum wage to $10 per hour. The only places I can cover the costs of a new employee are now to reduce my wage and the wage of my top producer. In this case I reduce the pay of my top producer since I am already making less than $10 per hour. Now despite the productivity of the top employee, they are getting paid the same as the lowest skilled employee.
If we increase the minimum wage anymore, I will start having to fire people. Considering the low amount of employees in general its much better to shut down at this point since the business won't survive without a fresh crop of employees.
That's the basics of why the minimum wage does not work. It does not increase productivity of employees, yet pays them more for that. The way its offset in the long run is to increase prices and inflation. This in turn increases prices on materials and the living expenses of the employees. It also makes businesses more vulnerable to imports from countries with a lower minimum wage.
In the end the issue with the minimum wage is it effectively flattens wages, increases prices, increases the cost of living, and decreases domestic employment.
Kevin Smith Thanks for that explanation. It did make sense to me, at least in theory. Keep in mind that I'm not arguing with you, but trying to present a different viewpoint to see if you'd consider it viable.
In theory, employees might be making $20, $18, and $2 of product an hour, but I feel like in reality such jobs have long since been shipped to countries where people are paid $1/hr to make $50 worth of product/hr (I'm making those figures up, obviously, but I'm sure you know they're not entirely far from the truth.) Besides, in what job that you can think of would they be producing $40 of product/hr? A sandwich shop would generate more than that if it was actually getting enough business to stay open, and the whole viability of the scenario you presented changes if they do in fact generate more than that per hour.
In the U.S., the minimum wage jobs are usually service jobs like working at McDonald's or being a cashier at a grocery store. In that case, each worker isn't so much producing a certain value of product per hour as they are processing a certain value of transactions per hour.
So this is my scenario: Say your sandwich shop makes a profit (after other expenses) of $40 every hour, about $1 per order (I'll keep the figures low to stay comparable to your scenario). Your current 3 employees have been filling about 15, 13, and 7 orders per hour, respectively (the last guy is relatively new). We'll assume they're already getting the national minimum wage of $7.25/hr because that's generally how it works for people in "unskilled" positions, regardless of how efficient they are. That leaves $18.25 for your salary, with enough to hire another employee to cover the 5 orders per hour not being filled consistently by your current employees, while keeping your salary at least $10/hr.
But now the minimum wage increases to $10/hr. 1) You can't afford a new employee anymore, and 2) You're potentially losing money as customer satisfaction drops due to slow service.
In this case, you have two choices: You can wait to see if your newest employee can perform up to par with the first two, and/or you can fire him and hire a new employee who can. There's a large pool to draw from, considering the amount of people living in poverty who worked in food service.
Your second employee is also now under more pressure, as he's still only barely filling a third of the orders and yet getting a third of the profits (not counting your salary from running the business). While an increase in performance can help secure his position in your business, a decrease in performance could mean losing his job.
In this system, job performance becomes more valuable. Workers who have been doing a job (and doing it well) for years will have enough to actually provide for all their living expenses, while those just entering the workforce have to put their all into a job and can't get away with slacking as easily. Increased job performance means better business performance and potentially growth, which means more money to go towards more hired workers.
This scenario also scales up easily. I'm pretty sure most small businesses, even those with just 3 employees working at a time, earn a profit of more than $40 an hour. And if they don't, it'll fail. But the fact of the matter is that your business doesn't automatically have a right to exist just because it's a business. It has to be profitable. None of us grew up in a time without a minimum wage, so there's always had to be a cost-benefit analysis factoring in wages. Raising the minimum wage raises costs and makes it harder for small business to thrive, yes, but specifically businesses that aren't very profitable in the first place.
I'm venturing into speculation here, but in my opinion, our country doesn't need more stagnant small businesses that can't afford to pay people enough to get by. It needs profitable businesses that have potential for growth and thus more employment opportunities.
9t9redballoons
Thanks for reading my comment and giving a well thought out response. There were a few aspects I didn't want to expand on because they would make the comparison a lot more involved. You mentioned two really good points on the response of employees to a minimum wage increase. Another one I did not mention was that over a couple years, the prices will normalize to a rate where it makes sense to charge more and still maintain the same amount of customer base.
The main point I wanted to make is why? Why bother with a minimum wage when it does not make a difference to the living wages of employees? I really don't see a gain in the minimum wage, only a decrease and a few years of economic hardship for people just starting out in the workforce.
I will try to address the points you made.
First is the employee who's production contribution is now near the minimum wage. I will ignore the situation that there may not be a demand for increased volume as that will make this explanation quite a bit longer. So he increases his production in order to make himself seem more valuable. The only issue with this is volume. There is a limit to how much one can produce. So too sharp of an increase in minimum wage before market normalization could price any worker in this field out of the market.
Second is the new employee who should pick up their learning pace or be replaced. Why should they have to lose their job just to make a politician secure his job? What if they want some money to spend in high school, but don't feel so attached to a company they are willing to give it their all?
The third point I want to make is your comment about a business model that makes too little money in your eyes to be useful. My view is its better to be making money than not making money, even if the amount of money is not very much.
Really brilliant. The original video annoyed the crap out of me yesterday. I talked to my wife about it for at least twenty minutes. This is a really good rebuttal. Thanks.
The number of people who stay on or near minimum wage through their life is intensely small. There is certainly a much greater downside to the loss to people who don't get a first job where the min wage was too high. If you don't believe such a person exists check out one of Thomas Sowell's columns on the min wage I'd recommend. I could see government having a role in finding those rare ones who are stuck on a low wage long term and enabling their training for something or what have you.
At the very best, don't directly raise the minimum wage but instead put in a 'negative income tax' that pays people at the bottom rung extra and doesn't take a hatchet to that first rung of the ladder where they're standing.
The people on the top rung are takers, plain and simple. They take in thousands of times the amount of value they produce, as well as eliminating the market saturation that would take place if that value was more effectively distributed BACK to the thousands of people who PRODUCE value, and then HAND OUT their hard earned money to those rich leeches. A wealthy billionaire still only consumes the resources needed to sustain one human life, and yet typically extracts the value of thousands from the economy. It's basic math. There's a finite amount of resources available on this planet. The more that gets hoarded by the 1%, the less there is for everyone else. The more rich people exist, the more people on the opposite end of the spectrum exist...and it's not even equivalent. The wealth extracted and hoarded by even 1 billionaire is enough to cause the starvation and desolation of thousands of people on the bottom rung...not to mention the environmental complications of this unsustainable system...which make the lives of people at the bottom rung that much more hazardous and unfulfilling.
This is a great response. No really, it is.
here is the thing. The machines are gonna replace those jobs anyway.
titanxbox 555 - Hopefully. It would increase productivity
Something tells me that if you're worried about minimum wage, you should sit down in a quiet room, and reflect on all the life decisions you made up until this point. If you've made good decisions, promise yourself you will build a foundation that your children can build upon so they end up better off than you were in life. THAT is the answer.
oh man that one should have been longer! LOL
Anybody that donated to that Kristen Bell kickstarter project is a chump.
And now they want 15$
Yes, cuz THE STATE must fix everything & people are utterly incapable of ever negotiating with their employer without the threat of force, either direct or indirectly through someone else using direct force....like armed police.
Well, I'm a he/she who knows a good haha when I see one, but I can't hi-five worth a damn. Depth perception is a cruel mistress. Looks like I'll have to find someone else to work for without pay.
"Insert reasons why there should be no minimum wage here.
Insert typical liberal rebuttal here.
Insert predictable conservative comeback here."
You realize that no one is changing anyone's mind right? You are all just wasting time arguing with people you don't even know (some whom aren't even Americans) on the internet.
I am an independent/libertarian. Meaning I believe in conservative economics/foreign policy and liberal social policy. In other words, I am on the best side of every major political issue. Liberals, you do one or two things right, but economics isn't one of them, for all the reasons that the smarter people in these comments have already posted. Now EVERYONE go crawl back into your holes.
Minnesota’s minimum wage has slowly crept up to $2.40 higher than the federal minimum wage over the last several years, and it’s proving to be a disaster for younger workers in the state, according to a new study.
Economics professor Noah Williams, director of the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economics at the University of Wisconsin, crunched the numbers by comparing jobs and economic data in Minnesota since the state began increasing its minimum wage.
In 2010, the state raised its wage to keep up with the federal minimum wage and only continued to increase it from there. As of January, the state’s minimum wage is $9.65.
This, in turn, has led to stagnant job growth compared to their neighbors in Wisconsin, Williams reported.
Williams said that employment growth rates in the fast-food sectors in Minnesota and Wisconsin began to diverge once Minnesota began tinkering with its minimum wage.
Before that, both states’ labor markets in which the minimum wage is most relevant (jobs for young, low-skilled workers) were similar.
I agree with the comments that this rebuttal uses illogical thinking. I suppose that any actor or actress should pay for their own movies if they have the money. What a stupid comment. I'm sure that it is especially irritating that an actress found a way to finance a movie that could not be previously financed. Also the $10.10 figure for the minimum wage is a compromise. I have heard that inflation puts a realistic figure for minimum wage at $15.00. No wonder the 98% are falling off the edge into poverty, especially the women with children and a minimum wage job or two.
So many silly comments here. We already have higher min wage by law in California. We are still having economic problems and have much higher cost of living. Raising min wage is not the answer. Government control is not the answer. Stop thinking the Federal government is going to make it all better. Grow up people!
Won't he be replaced by a machine regardless? No matter if the minimum wage is $7 or $10, the machine will still be cheaper to run.
An argument I see in the comments a lot, is that minimum wage jobs are only meant as a 'stepping point', however, most companies have a pyramid structure. There may be 100 people working at the lowest level shop floor job, and only around 5 of those can actually become floor managers/team leaders, and then one of those 5 can become the actual manager. So because there are only a limited number of positions open for the lowest level workers to move up, there will be a larger percentage of people who always stay at the bottom. I don't think it's unfair for them to ask for a wage they can live on.
There don't seem to be any simple answers though, I agree that if the minimum wage goes up, many companies will employee less people and just make them work harder, leading to more unemployment, and more illness among those still working.
If we want to improve the lives of the poor to middle class, decrease the price of basic necessities & increase the amount of free capital
then DECREASE the cost of FUEL!
cheaper gas would mean that people would have more money to spend on other things
some people who couldn't afford to travel to a distant but potentially higher paying job would now be able to
goods would cost less to ship
crops would cost less to plant and harvest
Raising minimum wage does not imply someone will be replaced by a machine. If machines could do the jobs of low wage workers then companies would have replaced you already because the machines would be more efficient in the long run. The problem is that cheap labor is available in other countries, there are no laws stopping outsourcing or enforcing minimum wage for international workers, and the wealthy are doing everything in their power to avoid providing higher wages, benefits, etc. while at the same time using every means at their disposal to avoid paying taxes. The existence of an extremely wealthy elite has extreme consequences for society. Rewards for innovation are great, but not when it results in the suffering of hundreds of millions of people. There have to be reasonable limits
Lets see. Obama Care cost $6/hour. Other insurance and employment at least that thus total cost is $19/hour of which the employee only gets 7.25. But a 15% increase is such a huge difference the company will get a machine.
Seeme to me there is already a huge incentive to get a machine.
Median Wage has gone down for 30 solid years. The Middle Class is dead and burried. We are becoming a third world economy. More adults living at home with no choice than in 40 years.
All to make the share holders happy. Just a fact mam. Stocks are doing great the people are eating hot dogs and rammen when they can afford it.
"Seeme to me there is already a huge incentive to get a machine." This is why everything has been made overseas for the last 60 years.... People could still live the way a 1950s factory worker did on little more than minimum wage, say $10 per hour. If they skip the cell phone and internet, own one used car, do all their own house and car maintenance, fix their own appliances, cook all meals at home, buy new clothes rarely or make their own, etc.
The big problem is that the worker doesn't cost $10/hr he costs $15-20/hr after all the extra costs of regulatory compliance..... That's why factories are overseas filled with people who used to be less well off; rather than in the US filled with machines. No regulation means opportunity for those who wish to take it.
*****
Their buying power is going down daily. Not like food cost the same as it did even a few months ago.
To say a raise would go 100% to raised prices is very misleading to say the least. The cost to the employer as a percentage of his total business will be small. That is simply a fact. Prices might go up a tad. But they already are so by how much would never be known.
Furthermore they would not do the $3 increase all at once. In Maryland it is taking four years. I doubt any measurable increase in prices will evern be proven to be due to a higher wage.
Now Obama Care cost are far more and if the employer mandate takes effect your wallet will definately feel it.
Khadijah Abdu-Salaam "CEOs are hired to make shareholders happy."
They will take every last penny from every American till we are all in poverty.
Americans welcome to serftom.
You really think employers won't replace you with machines at the current wage? They'll replace you, higher wage or not.
Why not just tie the minimum wage to some non-partisan cost of living calculation like the CPI? Problem solved.
We need to abolish all artificial constraints on wages (minimum wage laws), and allow employers to pay what their employees are worth! People need to be able to work!
If people would learn economics and not be bored with it, there would be no minimum wage law. Minimum wage laws are unconstitutional in my opinion!
Why not the top just stop taking way too much out of said budget to make it more plausible for Mr. Billy Broke a better shot at life and living
I guess the previous 29 times the minimum wage was raised didn't help create that living wage bullshit.
So genius.
They are all for it until it affects them.
Kids getting minimum wage for first jobs I understand, but what kind of loser still gets minimum wage after they turn 18? My parents were poor so I by the time I was 10 years old I was working after school, summers and weekends (illegally) in construction and getting 2x minimum wage. Since I was trying to prove I could keep up I paced myself to work harder than even the adults, who were actually a bit lazy. I volunteered for all of the hard, dirty and unpleasant jobs. Every job since then I have increased my income.
By the time I was 15 years old I had my own business (semi-legally since the state wont recognize the property rights of minors). Within one year I was employing 50 people (mostly adults) and making what at the time was a lot of money.
If you don't like your job try one of these solutions: a) quit and get another one, b) learn a skill that will get you a promotion, c) learn a trade. Whining about it wont help, even if you get a celebrity to whine with you.
You wouldn't happen to be mexican would you?
60% make $12/hour or less. Huge numbers of Americans perhaps 40% make less than $10.25.
Yet in North Dakota Walmart has no problem paying $18 and up. And no they are not replacing people there with machines.
Steve Angell
this has less to do with minimum wage and everything to do with libtards not existing in any shape or form in north dakota
343GuiltysparkHALO I believe it has more to do with the oil/fracking industry. Big oil is taking away so many jobs, that WM is forced to pay higher wages so that they actually have employees.
Steve Angell They sell stuff by the crate there according to my son that worked in that Wal Mart and they work their butts off too since the entire region depends on that company up there. So those particular employees are worth the expense to that location since they earn the company more money than they cost...another key part of economics..an employee must produce more than he is paid in order for the company to succeed.
Alyssa Milano love triangle in the 1990s and now she wants the parents on her kids baseball team to pay for the road trips I tell you ever hear about h in a handbasket
I've taken econ, and I gotta say, it's pretty ridicules. The way we measure value, poverty, and opportunity, all guarantee (and even rely upon) at least part of the population being poor, unemployed, and basically desperate. It also completely ignores some crucial issues that effect the economy, such as climate health, drinkable water, and a physically and mentally healthy population. So no, 3 pages of econ will not solve this problem. It will just train people to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. We need a new economy model. One that is actually meant to improve the lives of the people using it. Because people are the whole point, after all.
No people in general are not the point. The point is to allow individuals to pursue happiness, and this requires property rights.
Just a three dollar increase, will make a $10 big mac.....
Funny or Die doesn't pay a living wage? ROFL!
Fewer jobs and inflation, how can the working class lose? Not to mention those too old to go back to work ...
What a Perfect Edit... Now that is some talent.
That's irony.
Remy hit's the nail on the head once again!
Great video!
Too bad your preaching to the choir with these videos. The people that need to hear it do not look to ReasonTv or magazine for thought provoking content.
Spread it around.
California’s plan to raise its state-wide minimum wage to $15 per hour will have devastating effects on the Golden State, according to a new study.
What did the study find?
A new study from the Employment Policies Institute found that a $15 minimum wage in California could trigger the loss of more than 400,000 private-sector jobs, decimating California’s workforce. Even that estimate, the study warned, is “conservative.”
Which job markets will be hit hardest? The study was unequivocal about that. “The job loss is not spread evenly. Slightly more than one-half of the job loss is projected to be in two industries: accommodation and food services, and retail trade,” the study found.
In addition, it was discovered that for every 10 percent the state increased the minimum wage, employment dropped by two percent, while low-income earners were hit the hardest.
What has California done about its minimum wage?
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last year signed a bill into law mandating the raise of the state’s minimum wage to $15 across the board by 2023.
The law bumped the state’s minimum wage of $10 to $10.50 this year and will bump it to $11 in 2018. After that, the minimum wage will increase by $1 each year until it reaches the full $15 by 2022. Businesses than employee 25 or less people will be given one extra year to comply.
After the $15 minimum is set, it will continue to rise with inflation.
The loss of jobs didn’t go unpredicted. Economists stated last year when the bill was signed into law that it could cost 5 to 10 percent of low-income, low-skilled workers their jobs.
Oh, the hypocrisy! Such humor.
Everyone needs to watch this.
LOL Chimney-bot
What is Econ?
Remember, only special privileged people have the right to pay people under the minimum wage aka unpaid internship.
Has she responded to this?
Harsh.
Precinct 22
Sweet
Bravo! Free markets work even with, gasp, inequality!
I'm glad this video has almost twice the views Bells one has..
served!
im against raising the wage but wouldn't taxing automation fix the whole "being replaced by machines" problem?
automation tax would make people more profitable in comparison even with the wage increase.
No link to the video this is responding to?
Funny or Die hasn't put the video on RUclips yet.
Go to Huffingtonpost (dot) com and search on "Kristen Bell Mary Poppins"
Scarlett O'hara Oh, I know, and I agree about Huffpost. I even wrote an article about it myself: 8 Things Wrong With "Mary Poppins Quits."
www.examiner.com/article/8-things-wrong-with-mary-poppins-quits
people overuse the word "reason".
Remy you are a hoot I love your work,thanks!
So who the hell is Remy?
And why doesnt he have a last name??
#rekt
Drop the Broom.
Walk away.
Hahahaha!
Excellent!
Priceless!!!!
brilliant.
Spot on!
Love it!
I love fear mongering...
Don't you?
All right here's some facts for you guys: The minimum wage in the 60s, in today's dollars, was around 10 bucks an hour. As time went on that decreased while the wages of management and CEOs went up. In fact the higher ups are making much more money then ever and they continue to get pay raises. So tell me how a million dollar raise for one CEO doesn't increase the costs of goods or services from that company but a 2 dollar wage increase on the lower level employees will? Plus you Conservatives were in love with Hobby Lobby you do know their minimum wage is close to 14 bucks and their products are as cheap as Walmart's? Let's not forget this argument could have been used back in American history. Oh if you outlaw slavery the price of cotton goes up, if you create labor laws we have to adhere to then costs go up. I'd rather the costs be real than fantastical based on businesses cutting corners. Besides, costs have gone up while minimum wage has remained stagnant. And it's because of that that welfare recipients increased because they are working poor, they can't afford to live on what they make and have to have government assistance to make sure they have an actual meal.
Finally you guys say that these minimum wage jobs aren't meant to be careers. They are just meant to be for kids. Wrong. Millions of American adults work these jobs because these are the new lower class jobs. The factory jobs are gone. You guys can think that when we got rid of manufacturing it meant every American can rise up to upper level jobs. But we can't be an entire upper class society. There are always going to be the lower class people. Their work is terrible but they do it because it's necessary. And we need to ensure the wages they get meet the minimum standards of living so they can afford food and rent on their own which I'm sure you guys would want. It's either government assistance or increase wages. Also even if these jobs were carried on by a bunch of HS teens wouldn't it be better for them to make a bit more money? You guys know how expensive college is? Or even just textbooks. It would take a month's worth of minimum wage earnings to afford a couple textbooks. You are just hurting the buying power of Americans this way.