Fight For $15 Produces a Wave of Job-Replacing Kiosks

by Rod D. Martin
December 5, 2016

Just as I've warned you -- over and over -- the agitators trying to raise the minimum wage to a ludicrous $15 an hour have torched the very people they claim to represent.

Those people got greedy. And their greed got them used.

In a guest op-ed in Forbes last week entitled "Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide", former McDonald's CEO Ed Rensi explains the company's rollout and the necessity for it, the harm Fight for $15 has done to countless workers, particularly those at the outset of their careers, and the cynical SEIU effort behind it all.

Fight for $15, of course, claims that all they're seeking is a "living wage" for all the people "trapped" in minimum wage work. Sounds noble, right? And McDonald's sounds greedy and evil.

Well, it does until you think this through a bit.

$15 an hour is $30,000 a year. For a teenage burger flipper. With no skills whatsoever beyond "Do you want fries with…