If you're relying on income from working at McDonalds to support a family, you really fucked up somewhere bad.
The fallacy of $15 min wage...is that you cannot just increase the wages for the lowest rung. EVERYONE gets a raise, even the people higher up than the lowest rung. Your boss isn't going to like you making the same as he is for a job with less responsibility.
Yes, higher up will still move, maintaining the gap.
But everyone below and in between will just get 15. People at 12 won't maintain their gap from minimum wage as it should be more of an increase than standard cost of living, blah blah excuses blah.
In turn, it will effectively obliterate the middle and lower classes.
This is assuming people can even find jobs, as most places will shift to automation or cut positions completely (order terminals at fast food, self check at stores, machine pickers at warehouses, etc)
McDonalds now has ordering kiosks so you need not talk to a person or see someone to pay your money. Once they master a robotic chef, they can be happy to see a $25 hr wage.
If you're relying on income from working at McDonalds to support a family, you really fucked up somewhere bad.
The fallacy of $15 min wage...is that you cannot just increase the wages for the lowest rung. EVERYONE gets a raise, even the people higher up than the lowest rung. Your boss isn't going to like you making the same as he is for a job with less responsibility.
I suspect it will actually work out more like this:
-Hourly jobs are cut/hours reduced.
-Middle class salaried jobs stay roughly the same.
-Enough inflation that any raises the lower/middle class get will be moot.
So ultimately everybody but the wealthy are worse off.
That's not completely true.
Yes, higher up will still move, maintaining the gap.
But everyone below and in between will just get 15. People at 12 won't maintain their gap from minimum wage as it should be more of an increase than standard cost of living, blah blah excuses blah.
In turn, it will effectively obliterate the middle and lower classes.
This is assuming people can even find jobs, as most places will shift to automation or cut positions completely (order terminals at fast food, self check at stores, machine pickers at warehouses, etc)
McDonalds now has ordering kiosks so you need not talk to a person or see someone to pay your money. Once they master a robotic chef, they can be happy to see a $25 hr wage.