LOL burger flippers whine to the State for more money by government force.....
Wait till them burger flippers get replaced by these guys:
Dear Bernie Sanders, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you, "Flippy", the burger-flipping robot that will soon replace all those fast food workers that you're working so vehemently to get fired via your efforts to introduce artificially high $15 per hour minimum wage rates.
“Flippy”, a robotic kitchen assistant, is the creation of Miso Robotics, an engineering firm specializing in “adaptable robotics” for commercial kitchens. Miso's goal is to develop technology that can handle hazardous, tedious and time-sensitive aspects of cooking, from flipping burgers to frying chicken, cutting vegetables or final plating...in other words, all of the minimum wage restaurant jobs where employee costs just skyrocketed courtesy of economics-challenged politicians.
Per Nation's Restaurant News, 'Flippy' is no longer just a concept as it won its first major contract with CaliBurger which vowed to roll out the burger-flipping technology in all of its 50 global locations by the end of 2019.
I suspect that in a few years (5-10) all these useless discussions about minimum wage will be made moot as the bulk of menial jobs will be replaced by robots. All raising the minimum wage is going to do is make it happen quicker.
I suspect that at lot of CEO's are secretly pushing for an increase in minimum wage so it will give them an excuse to fire workers (if you've ever had to employ people it comes with tons of headaches) and run their businesses with machines (much more reliable, never go on strike, don't demand unions, health care, etc.).
Give it twenty years MAX and only the HIGHEST SKILLED people will be employable. The rest will be on some kind of permanent "minimum income."
When you think about it, it's a WIN for everybody (except the people getting shoved out).
CEO's love because robots make better employees.
Governments love it because people on PERMANENT welfare (or whatever they decide to call it) are less likely to riot and start a revolution.
Regardless of what you think "should" or "shouldn't" happen, or what is "moral" or not, pretty soon they'll be four kinds of people:
Elites that own and run everything.
Government workers and polticians who boss everybody around.
Highly Skilled Labor
Everybody else, desperate for the government to not turn off their life support.
