When it becomes cheaper to buy and maintain automation systems and "bots"... That is what a company will do. You can bump the "minimum wage" up as much as you want. They will just spend millions of $$$ for companies to design and build things to replace those jobs and will, in the end, employ only people to maintain the automation and to "load the machines" daily for their "work".
Its going to be really cheap to pay 1-2 people $20/hr to make sure the burger machine does not run out of frozen burger patties. Even though you will be paying 1-2 people 150k/yr to make sure the machines run basically 24/7.
Oh, and those cities and states that ban the automation? They will just close their stores there. They won't be able to make a profit so why would they bother staying open? Enjoy your self-imposed death spiral.
One thing that proponents of a "living wage" minimum wage forget is this - the real minimum wage is zero.
It is and always has been. Even if you ban technology that "takes jobs" the ban can only exist for so long.
Some jobs are not intended to be careers. Fast food employee is one of them. That is a job intended for someone picking up a extra job for some extra income or for teens/college kids. It is not supposed to be something you do to try to support a family.
Now, if I had to pick up 3 fast food jobs to support my family I would. That is what you do. I would be trying to get out of it as fast as possible but I would do it if I had to. You are not supposed to make a career out of being a checker at walmart or working in fast food.. You are supposed to try to move up and do bigger things. If you disagree, you need to reevaluate your life and your decisions.
>Now, if I had to pick up 3 fast food jobs to support my family I would.
You're over qualified. They'd never hire you.
Proficiency in English is an automatic disqualification in those shitholes.
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