| > That extreme turned out to be unsustainable in today's labor market--again, at least where I live--so "the market" and "the real world" seem to be moving on. Yes, the minimum possible being the minimum market wage that they can hire workers for (even if turnover is high). I don't mean they pay $7.25... > So I can tell you that many employers already flexibly schedule their workers Yeah, but those employees get paid only for the time they work, not 100% pay for 80% time. That's the point I was making. > Either way, I'm happy to pay even 20% more for my hamburgers if my kids can get better treatment as workers. What actually happens is those jobs get replaced with automation and your kids can't get fast food jobs in the first place. Order taking gets replaced with kiosks and things like fry production get automated [1]. It might not happen overnight but the tech is basically there already with computer vision and robotics. My local Walmart is already 50% self checkouts (advertising $18/h wages, btw). Amazon has licensed their Amazon Go tech to 3rd party stores. If wages go up 20% overnight the impetus to buy that tech goes way, way up. [1] https://misorobotics.com/ |