Seattle to increase min wage to $15/hour

[Mazin]

Minimum and maximum wage, government entitlement programs, minus the work it sounds like a socialist movement to me.

[roberth]

Entry level wages suck. Jobs with low skills requirements have slow if any promotion potential.

Get an education and get some experience. This was true 100 years ago and it is true today.

Just some comparison on pay: http://www1.salary.com/E3-Private-Fi...rly-wages.html

Now, now, now.

Get an education? Ambition? Experience? Work towards a promotion? Why would any parasite want any part of those things when Uncle Sam will steal money from the producers and hand it over to the parasites...after taking his cut of course.

[Irving]

College is pushed so hard that EVERYONE is getting an education, and an education so expensive they can't ever repay it, so look for that narrative to change. Trade skills are going to be coming back in force.

[Skip]

Along those same lines, I think a lot of current minimum wage workers are going to get a wake up call when they have to compete for their job, against someone with real skills and an understanding of what customer service actually means.

That's true too. The fewer jobs will have higher requirements/expectations. And if the increases hit the consumer (which they will) then the consumer will demand more too (not just the employers).

Young people have fewer opportunities to work before finishing school as well. So they will be expected to transition--and that will be hard.

[cstone]

College is pushed so hard that EVERYONE is getting an education, and an education so expensive they can't ever repay it, so look for that narrative to change. Trade skills are going to be coming back in force.

I have been railing against the constant drumbeat of "going to college" that is pushed by the government schools. I am fully supportive of the efforts of Mike Rowe and his work to get those who want to work interested in doing jobs that pay.

http://mikerowe.com/

Two of my three kids are in college and the third is in vo-tech learning to be a welder. My money is on the welder being able to support herself when she graduates. I also don't think she will have to worry too much about the minimum wage once she has some experience.

[Gman]

They'll just build machines that flip burgers. Cheaper and no health insurance.

[Irving]

They'll just build machines that flip burgers. Cheaper and no health insurance.

Already done and in practice.

[Great-Kazoo]

They'll just build machines that flip burgers. Cheaper and no health insurance.

Too bad they couldn't do something like that for the automotive industry

[Gman]

[muddywings]

this could have it's own thread but it think it fits nicely here:

A CEO raised his company's minimum wage to $70,000 a year, and some employees quit because of it

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-ra...fb_ref=Default

shocked...shocked I tell you!