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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
Exactly. With the amount of money in this city, it's entirely feasible for the owners of your local Mcdonalds to raise the price of happy meals by $2, thereby allowing them the flexibility to pay employees more money. Will I care if my McChicken is now $5 and not $3.50? Not at all. It also allows you to attract more employees if you now pay $20/hr to work at 7-11, and allows your employee to at least afford housing.
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It's not like this isn't already happening. Safeway used to pay $6.50 to starting cashiers in 2003 now they pay $10 and rising by the month to compete. That's in a union environment which is even less responsive to change. Other places have definately upped their prices and payed workers more.
What's really happening here is those 'non-competitive' people referred to above by cowperson expect that they don't have to do anything to keep themselves in the exact same housing unit. As in they don't feel they have to look for another higher paying job when their current one no longer pays the bills/ or have to actively find another place to live or work out different living arrangements, or to actually bother to watch their own expenses more carefully. In my experience I've never met someone at the low end of the margin that used what little money they had efficiently either. One of many examples: When I was in High School and worked for Safeway I observed many people trying to buy groceries and smokes at the same time, when the debit card failed to approve they chose to buy the smokes insted of food for their children. These are the same people complaining about the affordability of things in this city. While I agree we have to make an effort to help people who can't help themselves I don't think it's fair to the majority of the population to put up with restrictions and rules to our detrement in order to free up more money for these people to be spent inefficiently.