Instead of demanding a $15/hr minimum wage, why not push for more blue collar jobs that normally would pay $15/hr to begin with?

posted 48 days ago by Seruna_Kanus 48 days ago by Seruna_Kanus +25 / -0

Would it not be more fulfilling to work a job that requires minimal education that still pays well on the value of its product? I can certainly feel a factory job or a trade job would be better for people that don't want a job getting yelled at by Karen's all day for half the pay.

Why not encourage more decent jobs in the area, or look into said jobs? Look for labor where the product makes that job worth $15 out the gate.

Or, ya know, be worth $15/hr in the job you have. Be more productive. If nothing in that business can pay $15/hr, then you should find a different market and industry.

Forcing a minimum wage for jobs that aren't worth $15 to begin with won't improve jobs, it will leave more people without work because no one will hire workers that won't make that wage worth while.

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– crazyjackel 2 points 48 days ago +2 / -0

Will keep saying it. Your wages are based on supply and demand. You want them up, you got a few options:

Decrease supply
Increase demand
Increase worker efficiency
Inflate the currency
Differentiate workers

While you can raise minimum wage to raise wages, it is not advisable.

Minimum Wage hikes have a couple of effects:

Increase costs of good and services to compensate for higher wages.
Increase Unemployment, more people want to work at a higher minimum wage and employers want to hire less at a higher minimum wage.
Make businesses go out. Many small businesses rely on cheap labor to operate and since they don’t have economics of scale, they need to cut costs wherever to survive.
Increase discrimination. Yes, this is a long studied effect of minimum wage, wherein employer bias on what constitutes a good safe worker is taken advantage of. With a larger applicant pool, businesses can allow their biases to go rampant. This typically has seen blacks most affected in terms of unemployment. Every time minimum wage has been raised, more black by percentage have lost jobs than whites by percentage. In fact, minimum wage was originally designed to do this, owing its inception to post-war south.

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