The Outrage Thread

[Chocolate Lab]

 

[Cotton]

I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

So appalling and disgusting. This should be all over the media... but we know why it isn't.

 

[Cotton]

So appalling and disgusting. This should be all over the media... but we know why it isn't.

This all started with the Patriot Act. 9/11 has harmed more than just the poor people that died on that day.

 

[Cotton]

 

[Cotton]

 

[bbgun]

she's saying the quiet part out loud

 

[boozeman]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Of course that evil batshit leftist is wearing a fucking mask. Outdoors.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Cotton]

I wouldn't doubt it.

 

[boozeman]

Wait, so you pay different prices in real time?

Yeah good luck with that.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Wait, so you pay different prices in real time?

Yeah good luck with that.

People love convenience. I think the fast food industry will adapt and be just fine. Although I can order food from an excellent BBQ shop down the street for less than fast food. Or I can get to go Chinese for the whole family at a fraction of the price. So I guess at some point people will just shift to better food.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

-Push for insane and unsustainable minimum wages
-Companies scramble to maintain profits and even stay afloat
-Blame "greed"

 

[boozeman]

People love convenience. I think the fast food industry will adapt and be just fine. Although I can order food from an excellent BBQ shop down the street for less than fast food. Or I can get to go Chinese for the whole family at a fraction of the price. So I guess at some point people will just shift to better food.

I don’t agree that it is about convenience. I just think the strategy of your Wendy’s burger costing more at noon than at three is a dumb fuck decision by their CEO.

 

[Cujo]

-Push for insane and unsustainable minimum wages
-Companies scramble to maintain profits and even stay afloat
-Blame "greed"

They need to do away with the minimum wage and allow the market to set the wages. Every time they fuck with it, they create higher unemployment and higher costs. And all for 1.3% of the population.

 

[Cotton]

They need to do away with the minimum wage and allow the market to set the wages.

I have been screaming this for years.

 

[boozeman]

They need to do away with the minimum wage and allow the market to set the wages. Every time they fuck with it, they create higher unemployment and higher costs. And all for 1.3% of the population.

That sounds like a solution, but who sets the market?

 

[Cujo]

That sounds like a solution, but who sets the market?

The companies doing the hiring. Most people will think this means that they will just pay them .10 an hour to flip burgers. But if I open a burger place and I want better employees, I'm going to pay them better than the guy down the street. Multiple businesses in a free market will set the wages exactly where they need to be. In the end, will this result in some people perhaps making a little less than minimum wage. I Probably, but it will also make unemployment way lower. It also allows employers to pay more for people who are actually worth it. When I owned my pizza business and they raised minimum wage 3 times in 3 years, I ended up paying my shitty employees the same as my good ones because I had no flexibility left. There were guys I lost, who I would've loved to given raises to, but I couldn't. I was a small business so each time it went up, my payroll increased about $1k a month which doesn't sound like much but when my labor and food costs start running in the low 60s (percentage), I have to start cutting hours, working more, and raise my prices. All of those things together didn't even work. In the end, it will create a healthy competition among low wage earners. And remember, we're talking about 1.3% of the population. And it's not that I'm against helping them but raising minimum wage, clearly, hasn't worked. Never will.

 

[Smitty]

Wait, so you pay different prices in real time?

Yeah good luck with that.

Greed and inability to fire the fucking braindead morons who work at most of these restaurants that aren't Chick Fil A. It's the real dregs of society in these places. No one actually knows how to do any work either.