While that sucks in the moment, ultimately the restaurants will have to hire more staff at the higher pay rate, or ultimately close.
Either fast food companies will end up paying the higher wage, or they will end up going out of business. I don’t really care which, because fast food is a luxury. It sucks those people won’t have jobs in the short term, but in the long term they won’t be exploited as much by their next employer.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They didn’t ask the state to mandate it.
All this does is cause a loss of jobs.
Minimum wage was meant to deny blacks employment. It’s why the democrats love minimum wage discussions
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 7 months ago
You’re talking about the Davis-Bacon act, not the federal minimum wage law. That doesn’t negate the importance of setting a minimum wage (and ideally keeping it consistent with the rate of inflation/deflation to preserve the spending power of the minimum wage)
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Negate it. It’s kept black people down for years.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Hahaha how has guaranteeing a wage of above 0 kept black people down for years?