McDonalds Workers Won’t Have to Worry About Making Minimum Wage Much Longer

Any minimum wage is a bad idea. Raising it to an unsustainable level is far, far worse.

by Rod D. Martin
June 23, 2015

The picture says it all.

When some "progressive" demands $15 an hour for unskilled, entirely replaceable labor, you know they're either bleeding heart morons or Alinskyite agitators, in the latter case deliberately seeking to push the working poor onto welfare and into dependence so they can be "organized."

Either way, this is the result. At a reasonable wage, McDonalds can afford to hire countless unreliable unskilled teenagers, plus lots of more serious unskilled older people who can rise through the ranks (liberal canards notwithstanding, virtually no one stays at the minimum for very long).

But at a wage that works out to -- wait for it -- more than $30,000 a year? For unskilled, transitory "help"? Yeah, kiosks are the only sound decision. And when that happens, get ready for the outrage. Riots even, ala Baltimore. Because that's what the agitators were after all along.

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