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/—-/ Full Service gas stations started dying out in the 1970s. I’m old enough to remember them. Whatever Happened to...Full Service Gas Stations? - Go Retro!99% of those jobs are not minimum wage jobs.
Actually, just over 97%
I am speaking of the open, unfilled positions. I doubt even 3% of them are minimum wage jobs. Even the fast food places here are paying more than minimum wage because of the fight for employees.
This too shall pass in the next 5 years. Fast food will go by the way of many manufacturing jobs to automation. It's already happening. And it's not the lack of workers or the higher pay, it's just the way things are. Like the Gas Stations.
The beginning to the end was actually in the late 60s. We all thought it was just a fad.
At $65 an hour, one can live in Malibu CA. Problem solved.
But ...but.....where are the saviours of the workers......Unions????Okay again this a matter of simple mathematics. If everyone took your advice, who would be left behind to fill those jobs?still way below the cost of living needs for a person working 40 hours a week
So don't work for them.
No one forces anyone to take a job that doesn't support their needs. If you aren't making enough money at your job, change jobs or spend less.
Actually, just over 97%
I am speaking of the open, unfilled positions. I doubt even 3% of them are minimum wage jobs. Even the fast food places here are paying more than minimum wage because of the fight for employees.
This too shall pass in the next 5 years. Fast food will go by the way of many manufacturing jobs to automation. It's already happening. And it's not the lack of workers or the higher pay, it's just the way things are. Like the Gas Stations.
True. Not sure if it will be in 5 years, but it is a problem. Eventually we will run out of new jobs to replace the ones automated away. I think that tipping point will be when driver-less cars are viable.
At some point, we are going to have to figure out what to do with the idle public. There won't be any jobs for them to do. Even the City Planners will be replaced. Construction Workers will no longer be needed. And a whole lot more. And it's going to happen in the next 20 years. We need to start facing this right now. Yes, it's not an immediate problem but if we don't start planning for it then.........
Can you imagine being paid to stay home? It gives a new meaning to Socialism, doesn't it.
Ways of keeping the idle mob distracted and entertained is hardly a new problem...
'A national problem': U.S. housing affordability is out of whack with minimum wage
Obviously this should bother republican voters, but they have this fantasy mindset that Trump will turn this country into some kind of utopia despite the fact that he had two years to do so with a republican Congress. Their only response when presented with this is the usual pathetic deflection of “well Obama didn’t do it! Derp, derp, derp!”
Now granted Obama achieved little in improving the lives of the middle class and poor besides a few policies. These policies include 1) helping to reverse the Great Recession he inherited from Bush 6 months into his presidency and producing job growth EVER SINCE. 2) Expanding OT pay eligibility for thousands of US workers 3) guaranteeing people receive healthcare from pre-existing conditions, 4) passing the biggest middle class tax cut since Reagan
He also TRIED to invest education and raise the minimum wage but was blocked by republicans.
The point I am making is that republicans do fucking NOTHING to help the poor and middle class but democrats at least make an attempt despite failing on a significant scale. This nuance matters whether you like it or not.
/—-/ There was a novelty in pumping your own gas. But the first heavy rain or snow storm and you needed gas at s station with no cover over the pumps, the thrill was gone. Today’s cars with builtin in tire gauges and oil and tranny sensors make most of that old school services obsolete./—-/ Full Service gas stations started dying out in the 1970s. I’m old enough to remember them. Whatever Happened to...Full Service Gas Stations? - Go Retro!99% of those jobs are not minimum wage jobs.
Actually, just over 97%
I am speaking of the open, unfilled positions. I doubt even 3% of them are minimum wage jobs. Even the fast food places here are paying more than minimum wage because of the fight for employees.
This too shall pass in the next 5 years. Fast food will go by the way of many manufacturing jobs to automation. It's already happening. And it's not the lack of workers or the higher pay, it's just the way things are. Like the Gas Stations.
The beginning to the end was actually in the late 60s. We all thought it was just a fad.
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Now granted Obama achieved little in improving the lives of the middle class and poor besides a few policies.
These policies include
1) helping to reverse the Great Recession .
. 2) Expanding OT pay eligibility for thousands of US workers .
3) guaranteeing people receive healthcare from pre-existing conditions,.
4) passing the biggest middle class tax cut since Reagan.
....and raise the minimum wage but was blocked by republicans.
/—-/ Full Service gas stations started dying out in the 1970s. I’m old enough to remember them. Whatever Happened to...Full Service Gas Stations? - Go Retro!Actually, just over 97%
I am speaking of the open, unfilled positions. I doubt even 3% of them are minimum wage jobs. Even the fast food places here are paying more than minimum wage because of the fight for employees.
This too shall pass in the next 5 years. Fast food will go by the way of many manufacturing jobs to automation. It's already happening. And it's not the lack of workers or the higher pay, it's just the way things are. Like the Gas Stations.
The beginning to the end was actually in the late 60s. We all thought it was just a fad.
It wasn't the end of anything ... people voted with their wallets ... they would take cheap self-serve over more expensive full-serve every time. It wasn't a government plan or social engineering ... it was the ever present invisible hand of the market (to quote Adam Smith).
'A national problem': U.S. housing affordability is out of whack with minimum wage
Obviously this should bother republican voters, but they have this fantasy mindset that Trump will turn this country into some kind of utopia despite the fact that he had two years to do so with a republican Congress. Their only response when presented with this is the usual pathetic deflection of “well Obama didn’t do it! Derp, derp, derp!”
Now granted Obama achieved little in improving the lives of the middle class and poor besides a few policies. These policies include 1) helping to reverse the Great Recession he inherited from Bush 6 months into his presidency and producing job growth EVER SINCE. 2) Expanding OT pay eligibility for thousands of US workers 3) guaranteeing people receive healthcare from pre-existing conditions, 4) passing the biggest middle class tax cut since Reagan
He also TRIED to invest education and raise the minimum wage but was blocked by republicans.
The point I am making is that republicans do fucking NOTHING to help the poor and middle class but democrats at least make an attempt despite failing on a significant scale. This nuance matters whether you like it or not.
/—-/ There was a novelty in pumping your own gas. But the first heavy rain or snow storm and you needed gas at s station with no cover over the pumps, the thrill was gone. Today’s cars with builtin in tire gauges and oil and tranny sensors make most of that old school services obsolete.
/—-/ There was a novelty in pumping your own gas. But the first heavy rain or snow storm and you needed gas at s station with no cover over the pumps, the thrill was gone. Today’s cars with builtin in tire gauges and oil and tranny sensors make most of that old school services obsolete.
How can a car sense a Tranny?
Okay again this a matter of simple mathematics. If everyone took your advice, who would be left behind to fill those jobs?still way below the cost of living needs for a person working 40 hours a week
So don't work for them.
No one forces anyone to take a job that doesn't support their needs. If you aren't making enough money at your job, change jobs or spend less.
Here's a little piece of economics that they teach in schools... called Supply and Demand. If there is no one around willing to take a job at a low wage, the wage increases.
This continues until a) the job becomes obsolete due to automation or it becomes obsolete because those who previously paid for the service no longer consider that job worth it.
At one time, a huge part of low end of the US labor force were employed domestics .
Automation and the adaptation of less pretentious lifestyles among the upper classes has significantly reduced that number.
Live-in, full time domestics have practically disappeared.
Forget explaining economics to Billy0.Net migration from Mexico has been decreasing since 2008. There is no such thing as a border crisis unless you think any level of illegal immigration through out history was a crisis.'A national problem': U.S. housing affordability is out of whack with minimum wage
Obviously this should bother republican voters, but they have this fantasy mindset that Trump will turn this country into some kind of utopia despite the fact that he had two years to do so with a republican Congress. Their only response when presented with this is the usual pathetic deflection of “well Obama didn’t do it! Derp, derp, derp!”
Now granted Obama achieved little in improving the lives of the middle class and poor besides a few policies. These policies include 1) helping to reverse the Great Recession he inherited from Bush 6 months into his presidency and producing job growth EVER SINCE. 2) Expanding OT pay eligibility for thousands of US workers 3) guaranteeing people receive healthcare from pre-existing conditions, 4) passing the biggest middle class tax cut since Reagan
He also TRIED to invest education and raise the minimum wage but was blocked by republicans.
The point I am making is that republicans do fucking NOTHING to help the poor and middle class but democrats at least make an attempt despite failing on a significant scale. This nuance matters whether you like it or not.
Maybe bringing in more millions of illegals will reduce housing costs, health care and increase wages. How about it?
You dodged my points.
You want affordable housing and "living" wages while simultaneously supporting unlimited immigration, legal or otherwise, and you demand welfare for the 23 million illegals (and growing) that are here and everyone else that follows them here. Either you want the former or you want the latter but you cannot have both.
True.
Republicans not only do nothing, but they couldn’t care less about the housing crisis.
False.
Democrats not only do nothing, but they couldn't care less about the housing crisis.
Example: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit ...
What has the republican congress done for the 4 years of GOP maj in both the house and the senate. The GOP House for 8 years and we know where bills get started.
They don't call Mitch the Grim Reaper for nothing, he takes up no bill from the House since the Democrats took control in 2019.
There appears to be a housing shortage and that would explain why in my neck of the woods they are building houses like crazy. As the price of homes increase the FED is set to raise interested rates. People who can afford it want a new home.
True.
Republicans not only do nothing, but they couldn’t care less about the housing crisis.
False.
Democrats not only do nothing, but they couldn't care less about the housing crisis.
Example: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit ...
What has the republican congress done for the 4 years of GOP maj in both the house and the senate. The GOP House for 8 years and we know where bills get started.
They don't call Mitch the Grim Reaper for nothing, he takes up no bill from the House since the Democrats took control in 2019.
None of them ran these cities:
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit ...
more illegals/immigration = higher prices--lower wages...I've been saying this for a long time'A national problem': U.S. housing affordability is out of whack with minimum wage
Obviously this should bother republican voters, but they have this fantasy mindset that Trump will turn this country into some kind of utopia despite the fact that he had two years to do so with a republican Congress. Their only response when presented with this is the usual pathetic deflection of “well Obama didn’t do it! Derp, derp, derp!”
Now granted Obama achieved little in improving the lives of the middle class and poor besides a few policies. These policies include 1) helping to reverse the Great Recession he inherited from Bush 6 months into his presidency and producing job growth EVER SINCE. 2) Expanding OT pay eligibility for thousands of US workers 3) guaranteeing people receive healthcare from pre-existing conditions, 4) passing the biggest middle class tax cut since Reagan
He also TRIED to invest education and raise the minimum wage but was blocked by republicans.
The point I am making is that republicans do fucking NOTHING to help the poor and middle class but democrats at least make an attempt despite failing on a significant scale. This nuance matters whether you like it or not.
Well gee, that’s a brilliant solution. Okay so let’s pretend everyone did that despite such a thing being mathematically impossible. Who would be left behind to work those minimum wage jobs? I mean we are also talking about service jobs that pay more than minimum wage but still very much south of a live able wage.Don't work for minimum wage... problem solved.
