Fast food robots…

Minimum wage activists are in danger of putting humans  out of work  in the fast food industry.   Why pay a human $15 an hour to be whiny and unproductive when you can amortize a robot to perform many of the same tasks hour after hour,  day after day, without complaint?

I don’t visit fast-food restaurants very often,  but given the indifferent service I sometimes receive when I do,  I’d just as soon talk to a robot. What about you?

Which brings me to another point:  why do we need to import,  legally or otherwise,  unskilled labor when the public education system already produces plenty of unskilled natural-born Americans?

 

Minimum wage vs tax credit…

Ira Stoll ponders an interesting question:  is a tax credit better than a minimum wage increase?   He thinks it is,  and  tells us  why,  although he cautions us that tax credits are not without problems to be considered.

 

 

Facebook enters minimum wage fight…

Facebook is a large company with the clout  to demand  certain things from its vendors and contractors.   That is okay with me,  but liberals and progressives seem to believe that all small businesses should meet the same requirements.   How many small businesses must be destroyed before they get a clue on economics?

The correct answer is:  all of them.   Progressives don’t like capitalism,  because that means government does not control everything.   The only  “good”  job is a government job.  Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren try to play populist,  but their policies promote socialism,  not capitalism,  and the individual always suffers from such policies.

Capitalism has winners and losers.  Every other system creates a small handful of winners and vast swathes of losers,  where the only way an individual can obtain anything extra is to lie,  cheat,  and/or steal.   It should tell you something that the groups which have no problem with exhibiting such behaviors are the same groups which are anti-capitalist.

Borderlands Books closure…

A venerable San Francisco bookstore is closing its doors because the increased  minimum wage  is putting it out of business.  Liberals and progressives  proclaim loudly that they take the long,  measured view,  yet they are always so surprised when their insane policies have deleterious consequences that they immediately began blaming something  —  or someone  —  else for those consequences.

Someone should ask the soon-to-be former employees of Borderlands Books if the minimum wage increase has helped them.

 

 

 

More wage = less jobs…

San Francisco has increased its required minimum wage,  and only a month later Borderland Books is closing its doors,  despite Mayor Ed Lee’s claim that an increase in wages could be accomplished  “…in a way that protects jobs and small business.”

That was nonsense when he said it last year,  of course,  and now the Borderland employees not only won’t see their wages raised,  they will have no wage at all,  courtesy of progressive thinking and the liberal belief that their morally superior beliefs can have no unfortunate consequences.

 

 

 

ThinkProgress struggles with minimum wage…

The lefty organization  can’t understand  why a large,  competitive business like IKEA would raise the wages of its employees,  mostly because it can’t comprehend competition and how for-profit businesses actually function.  It’s actually rather amusing to watch the group try to wrap its woolly head around such foreign concepts.

Perhaps they should chat with  employers in Seattle,  where the city’s proposed drastic minimum wage increase to $15 is already costing jobs and raising prices.

Are we as smart as the Swiss?

Democrats certainly aren’t.   The Swiss have  no minimum wage  and don’t think they need one.   They also declined to join the European Union,  or adopt the euro as their currency.   It remains to be seen if we have the bottom to withstand American versions of such bad ideas.