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And is $15/hour unreasonable??
For putting together a switch on an assembly line all day? Yes it is. Its those jobs that either should be outsourced, or automated.
You're point about minimum wage is futile. As Packrat said, minimum wage is not meant to support a family. At 16, or 17 years old, working a parttime job, minimum wage puts a nice little chunk of change in yer pocket, and teached you the value of the dollar. Raising minimum wage will only put MANY small businesses under.
Do you seriously think I should pay the 2 guys at my shop whos job it is to change tires $15 an hour? If I did that, we'd have never made it, and would have closed up shop within 6 months.
The bottom line is, our world is changing, and its time to grow up with it. People need to educate themselves in a competitve industry, and they will be fine. When my last programming position was outsourced I was bumped to project manager, along with a NICE salary increase. 15 programmers lost their jobs during that shake up, but ya know what, every single one of them have good management jobs now, because they didn't sit on their asses and whine, they went and educated themselves for the changing marketplace.
People need to stop being lazy, and expecting cushy jobs with high pay, and this would go away. Its that simple.
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