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Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

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Post by bee_rider »

quantum_magpie wrote: post #64
endisneigh wrote: post #3

I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn't make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but something ) This guy smh

>two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. My immediate reaction to this statement was.. it's insane? In my opinion it should read 'a single person able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within an hour of public transport commute.' Otherwise it sounds like you don't think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?

Also, you'd think the people with 'traditional values' or whatever would be really excited if a single worker could support a couple.

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Post by tasty_freeze »

xwdv wrote: post #177
bo1024 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A universal basic income would have some advantages over a minimum wage. Minimum wage interferes with supply and demand in the labor market, which is why some economists dislike it. UBI moves the supply curve to a different place, but it allows those principles to function.

UBI won’t do anything I’m afraid, that experiment already failed during the pandemic and now we have massive inflation across all assets.

It is very tempting to draw a straight line between something you don't like and some other event that is negative and declare causation.

Do you really think this is what is causing inflation? Perhaps there are other facts, such as trillions of dollars of almost zero interest money injected since 2008, massive tax cuts for highly profitable companies (eg AAPL) that result in great payouts to people who are already paying low taxes (long term capital gains), complex interacting forces that moved the cost of a barrel of oil from a low of $20 to over $100?

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Post by azinman2 »

sonotathrowaway wrote: post #214
eatonphil wrote: post #26

I don't think it's an Applebee's exec it's an Applebee's franchise exec. Unless I'm misunderstanding.

I think the article said it was from a regional manager. That counts as an Applebees corporate exec.

Not when it’s a franchise that affects a small portion of their stores.

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Post by daniel-cussen »

XorNot wrote: post #195
shafyy wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Even the mindset of thinking in "driving" vs. walking or public transport shows a lot.

It is however realistic given the the US's urban layout and population preferences. Also nowhere has succeeded in keeping essential, low paid workers living near where they work - gentrification forces them out.

That's because their work has so much value and they get paid none of it.

EDIT: That's what Henry George said. The reason San Francisco land has so much value and the land in an undeveloped part of California has nearly none is the development, meaning the work of developing it, what human hands do to the land to transform it, the construction. You can sprinkle gold on it and nothing, put a bulldozer there (capital) and nothing, send an entrepreneur or economist to look at it and nothing. It's when people work that it becomes worth something.

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Post by Seattle3503 »

licebmi__at__ wrote: post #204
quantum_magpie wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. My immediate reaction to this statement was.. it's insane? In my opinion it should read 'a single person able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within an hour of public transport commute.' Otherwise it sounds like you don't think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?

It’s funny that the ideals of granting everyone “life, liberty and a the pursuit of happiness” are regarded as wisdom, but as soon as somebody tries to ponder of what that might be on the specific, then it’s regarded as crazy.

The quote talks about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness.

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Post by woah »

endisneigh wrote: post #3

I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn't make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but something ) This guy smh

I wonder what the USA would look like if zoning laws were defined as: Issue building permits until people can afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive of work without traffic

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Post by elliekelly »

darth_avocado wrote: post #20

Rising gas prices mean we can lower wages to keep employees? Outside of the moral implication, this doesn't even logically make sense. People are already facing higher costs, if you pay them lower, they will not work for you, because you know, commuting to work at your place will eat into the budget.

They’ll also eat at Applebee’s less. This exec seems really out of touch with who the typical Applebee’s customer is and how much money they earn.

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Post by Aeolun »

quantum_magpie wrote: post #64
endisneigh wrote: post #3

I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn't make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but something ) This guy smh

>two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic. My immediate reaction to this statement was.. it's insane? In my opinion it should read 'a single person able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within an hour of public transport commute.' Otherwise it sounds like you don't think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?

This sounds to me like they want to be able to provide for a SO?
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