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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
If a subset of adults require jobs such as Tim Horton's for employment then are you advocating that people should be fully employed and they and their family live in poverty and that is acceptable as a society? Or are you advocating that it is more efficient to rely on government administered social programs to boost those people above the poverty line?
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I'm not advocating for anything. But again, there's an argument that can be made for unintended consequences. How long is the Timmies franchisee expected to pay his staff $25/hr before your double-double has to be $7, or he replaces a bunch of staff with ordering kiosks?
Personally, I don't feel that
every job needs to pay a living wage. If an adult has to take a job somewhere like Timmies, while unfortunate, I don't think it's reasonable to expect that job to support a family, or even an independent lifestyle (free of roommates, etc).
And I'm not saying it's unreasonable because I don't see the value in these jobs, or the people that have to work them, but rather it's unreasonable because 'we' can't afford the prices needed to sustain that level of income for those employees...
Honestly, I don't know what the answer is, but there are going to be some very difficult decisions that need to be made... I have young children and frankly, I'm a little concerned for what their job prospects and careers look like.
I'm curious to know (and I'm not being snarky) - do you feel all jobs are worth a living wage?