SCDisneyfanatic
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 8, 2014
Not trying to argue if it's fair or right or anything else. The original poster questioned why no one was working ...they couldn't fill enough jobs. And the simple answer is because many people out of work won't go back unless they make $15 an hour serving a hamburger or emptying a trash can. I would point out though that over the course of history as wages increase costs increase because companies are not in business to lose money. Great idea...pay everyone $20 an hour to do those jobs. Then the folks making $20 will insist on $30 and those making $30 will insist on $40 and so on and so forth. In the end, all costs will go up and the $20 they are making will buy no more than it does today. Believe me, I started with jack nothing and suffered many years going to school and learning and working and advancing myself. But what all this has to do with employees everywhere not being able to hire folks is another subject. That's all...thanks for the conversation. I need to get back to work! Just kidding...I did that for 50+ years...time to relax!!Ok, we need to stop thinking that High School kids are the ones working the majority of these jobs. Most of them legally have to be done by someone over 18. And who do you think is doing these jobs when the kids are in school? Actually LOOK at the people that are working. Sure there are a few jobs that do not take much skill, but most of them do, regardless of what you personally think. Even then, a person's labor is worth more then a few dollars an hour. And you seem to think that if companies paid even less, that the product would someone get cheaper. LOL The costs will, and do keep going up and up and up but the salaries have remained stagnant. The "real world" used to be that people working a full time job could support themselves. In the past 15 years, this has changed. I just can't see how anyone, that has any kind of humanity in them, could possibly feel that humans should give their labor and provide others with goods and services, and be treated like an indentured servant. Because no one can "get ahead" anymore making that little money. We all worked our butts off, but the economy has changed so much that people starting out now, don't have that chance unless they have someone to help them. How can you not see this? Try budgeting out what people get paid with cost of living now and you will see that it is NOT the same as it used to be.