Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Former Wheel Of Fortune Host Scolds Fight For $15, Communists" video.

  1. Cenk has a far easier job than Chuck. All Cenk does is state his opinions to a young, ignorant YouTube audience.
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  2. I don't see why liberals are approaching this half ass. Even by forcing how much is paid per hour businesses can still cut hours meaning an employee can still earn the same, or less per week. How about we just set minimum salaries and abolish hourly wages. Make a law that says 1. Anyone that gets hired has to be paid at lease $30,000 a year 2. They can't work more than 40 hours a week Bam, problem solved.
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  3. They won't have more disposable income when their hours are cut and prices of other goods go up. The immediate flaw of the min. wage is you are forcing how much is paid per hour, not per week.
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  4. You just compared complex economies to the min. wage and McDonalds. Congrats, please write a PhD thesis on that.
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  5. Why? A counter argument to what you just said is to tell people to get off of min. wage.
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  6. People are lazy.
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  7. If people are buying new ACs from you that much then you make crap ACs.
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  8. the flow of money is meaningless, it is the creation of wealth that key. If there is more money being spent but new wealth isn't created then all that would do is lower the purchasing power of the dollar.
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  9. How much do you make Cenk? If it is in the millions then I guess you are not qualified to talk about the min. wage based off of your logic.
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  10. Cenk is a propagandist. He does an excellent job at lying with statistics when he does give some. Other times he just says "well that is they way it is" with no actual evidence. This video is a clear example. He says the average age of the min. wage workers is 35 years old. That number was taken by setting the min. wage to $11.10/hr, not 7.25/hr. You have to also understand that number is skewed due to retirees in their 60s working min. wage jobs. The median age is in the 20s. Anyone can throw numbers out there, but if you don't give them actual meaning then you are simply pulling wool over people's eyes.
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  11. If a business does not pay their employees then no on will work for them.
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  12. Your country has less than 5 million people and hasn't accomplish much.
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  13. McDonalds are mainly franchised who earn little, not billions of dollars. Corporate makes a lot of money but they have to keep shareholders happy.
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  14. Nope, you just compared two complex economies by simply looking at the min. wage and McDonalds. I pointed to McDonalds by showing they are franchised thus the profit they get has essentially nothing to do with what corporate makes. What will happen to McDonalds? They will go to automation and started to in areas where the min. wage went up.
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  15. Companies are as big as they are because of shareholders. Remove the shareholders than McDonalds is no bigger than In and Out. CEOs don't make much in relation to the entire staff. For example, if you were to take the top 6 executives of Walmart and spread their yearly earnings evenly to the 225,000 lowest paid Walmart employees, they will earn an extra $147 a year. That's it.
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  16. They are not franchised everywhere. What corporate makes has nothing to do with wages. Increasing the wage will make automation come faster not allowing the market to adjust. You are perturbing the market too much.
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  17. I know automation is going to happen. Technology has always replaced workers in the economy. If we allow it to happen gradually then that is fine. It is when policies that are created that will force it to happen quickly is when it becomes a problem.
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  18. "Allowing companies to pay starvation wages" You are making an appeal to emotion statement that means nothing. The vast majority of those who are earning $9.50/hr or less are not even poor. Also, considering how obesity is a problem in this country, and a problem for those in poverty, I would say having them starve would do some good. "A low min wage is defecto corporate welfare because we are forced to pick up the tab they should be covering to their full time employee's." A business, in the competitive market, will pay a higher wage if they can afford it. A business does not pay a higher wage because they simply can't afford it. Raise the min. wage and people will lose their jobs to where they are earning $0.
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  19. "I am not making an appeal to emotion, I am stating a fact. The Min wage is a starvation wage, almost literally." You are making an appeal to emotion statement because you are saying that anyone who earns the min. wage is starving which is not true. In a given week I can say I earn less than $9.50/hr and I am not on food stamps. When I was earning $5.15 12 years ago I was not on food stamps. The vast majority of people who earn the min. wage are not poor because they are not the primary earners of a household. "Obesity is another issue and is attached to the quality of the processed food that is often cheaper than healthy foods for many consumers" There are a lot of cheap food out there that is not process. They are not hard to find. Potatoes and rice is cheap. So is peanut butter and jelly. "A business will pay whatever the standard is and in many industries that is as little as they can get away with." But yet over 96% off the workforce is paid above the min. wage. "The idea that people lose jobs when the min wage goes up is not backed up by the real world examples where it has been implemented. " Yes it has. Black teens have been hit the hardest.
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  20. Why would someone who doesn't have to work a min. wage job do it for a couple of years? What will that prove? They have the skill set to earn more. Those that are working a min. wage job should develop skills so they can earn more.
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  21. "do you think people want to be on minimum wage???" By the fact that people keep pushing to raise it I will say yes. It is quite pathetic to have such low desires in life, but it seems like people enjoy working min. wage jobs.
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  22. Jobs are there, people just need to develop skills to do them.
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  23. If they are starvation wages then how are they still alive?
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  24. Or more likely that min. wage worker typically aren't poor. The average household income of those earning $9.50/hr or less is around $47,000 a year.
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  25. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lrazzolini/GR2010.pdf
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  26. Not true. What improves the economy is the creation of wealth.
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  27. If workers have more money but there isn't any wealth being created then prices go up. The idea that more money means more demand is false.
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  28. It isn't as simple as those companies make X in profits thus they should be able to pay their employees Y.
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  29. If you as a worker can't justify a higher wage then you should not be working.
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  30. CEO's are also responsible for more these days then they were 20 years ago. They are a part of what is called Skilled Biased Technological Change
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  31. Nothing if it isn't government mandated.
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  32. Walmart is as big as they are because of shareholders. If Walmart were to cut profits to raise wages the shareholders go away and Walmart will have to downsize. Congrats, now those workers are unemployed.
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  33. Why would he live off of the min. wage? He ended up getting a job so he doesn't have too. Your argument is very poor.
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  34. Let me correct that FDR (who turned a recession into a depression) for you. If a worker can't justify a higher wage by developing greater wealth, that worker has no right to continue in this country.
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  35. FDR expanded what Hoover was doing which was federal government intervention to try to "fix" the economy. That is why we had a depression, FDR turned the recession into a depression. Also the US became a superpower during WWII because every other country decided to fight and we stayed back and sold weaponry. We entered in the later rounds when everyone was weak. But never mind. "So what are you saying then? People cannot accumulate enough wealth with the current minimum wage to find better paying jobs or go to college to find a better job so isn't that justification?" Nope, people can't develop wealth to justify a higher wage. That is why they are paid a low wage, they develop little wealth.
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  36. If you were to take CEO pay and spread it to the workers they will end up making very little. For example, if you were to take the top 6 executives of Walmart and spread their money, evenly across the 225,000 lowest paid employees, they will earn an extra $147 a year. That's it.
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  37. http://www.vox.com/2014/8/6/5970815/what-if-walmarts-ceo-took-a-pay-cut-for-his-workers I was a little off in my numbers, but there they are. Also, CEOs are responsible for a lot which is why they get paid that much.
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  38. " but I still think the company itself could invest more money in it's workers which would benefit the company in the long run because people in the lower classes with more money spend more." That is not how it works. Businesses don't pay more because of one simple reason, they can't afford it. " And "CEO's are responsible for a lot" is probably the worst argument I have ever heard to justify their salary. A lot of people are responsible for a lot of things" If the employee of Walmart messes up then shelves don't get stocked. If the CEO messes up then millions of shareholders lose money and thousands are out of a job. "The stress on one's life is completely subjective, so to say that the "hardness" for lack of a better word of one's job is why you pay them more is a terrible argument. " It isn't so much hardness but how much you produce.
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  39. Large businesses can't afford it either.
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  40. What is a "decent living wage"? What are you standards?
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  41. Darren, you have a lot of hand wavy arguments. You are comparing the economy of 50 years ago to now which you can't do. Technology has changed, policies have changed, careers have changed. That, and the fact you are trying to tie the min. wage to inflation really displays your high level of ignorance of economics. I would suggest you stop listenig to Bernie Sanders.
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  42. They can still hire at part time, they just have to pay the min. income.
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  43. It makes perfect sense. Businesses can cut hours and still function. The business I worked for did. We went from 3 workers in the kitchen and 4 waitresses to 2 in the kitchen and 2 waitresses. We just required the workers to work more. We also closed down the business an hour earlier on weekends. In New York there is a Denny's that was 24 hours. When the min. wage went up they stopped being 24 hours which had them cutting hours. A franchise owner can closed down one of their shops. For example, if someone owns 10 McDonalds in the city they can close one down and move their workers around but as a whole hours a cut. With the min wage you are enforcing how much is paid per hour, not per week. The yearly income of the employees is still at the mercy of the employer. With the min. salary you eliminate that.
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  44. People claim that the min. wage is supposed to give people enough money to live, would you agree?
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  45. "Why shouldn't a min wage provide enough money to live on? " That is an argument people make. Now my question is at how many hours? 40 hours a week? 20 hours a week? The min. wage is the minimum amount is forced to pay per hour. You are saying it should provide enough money to lie on. Now at how many hours?
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  46. Ok, and this comes back to my original argument of how the min. wage enforces how much is paid per hour, not per week. So if you raise the min. wage and a business cuts workers hours, what have you accomplished? That is why I say it should be a min. salary. An earnings that is weekly. That way the workers are not that the mercy of the employers on how much they earn a week.
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  47. "Most businesses that would be paying min wage just can't cut workers." Yes they can. They will just make the customer wait that much longer for their food. I went to a Del Taco the other day, only two workers working. " Places like McDonalds that are open (usually) 24/7, they're not going to be able to function by cutting workers' hours." Yes they can, they can stop being 24 hours. A Denny's in NY did it after the min. wage was increase. If someone owns 15 McDonalds in a city they can make only one or two of them 24 hours where before they could have had 10. "I think a better solution would be to set Min wage for people aged 16-21 at maybe $11 and for age 21+ to $15. That would encourage places with low skill jobs to hire younger people while still giving adults a liveable wage." Or encourages people to stay at their low skill, low wage job and not move up. Also it will encourage employers will give more hours to younger staff at the expense of older staff since the older staff is paid more.
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  48. "First of all, the cutting hours thing is an imaginary problem. You can't possibly believe people will start working way less than 40 hours across the board." Yes they will because their employers will cut those hours. Also only around 2 percent of workers work full time and are on min. wage. "Secondly, you can still get another part time job and make a living" How, if hours are cut? Plus I don't know if you worked more than one job but scheduling is a nightmare. "If someone wants to work two part time jobs, and two business wants to hire them, why should we stand in the way of that? " I agree, but it isn't that easy. "You're a conservative" Nope, I am a moderate. "The problem is that currently people are working full time jobs and still not making a living" Yeah, but they are not the ones earning the min. wage. " The 15 dollars minimum wage solves that problem" No it doesn't. "What you are suggesting, making it so that someone working 4 hours per week has to be payed just as much as someone working 40, all that does is effectively ban part time jobs." No it doesn't. It removes the ability of employers of hurting worker's weekly pay by cutting hours. If you raise the min. wage to $15/hr and someone is now only working 10 hours a week, what have you accomplished? Nothing. You said so yourself that there are workers working full time that are poor. Now there will be even less workers working full time. Sure they will be making more per hour, but they will be making the same per week. So what have you accomplished?
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  49. "Some min wage jobs can't be done by unskilled workers." They are all unskilled workers. "McDonalds cutting hours wouldn't change their situation, they would still be making the same profit/hour." Yes, but at less hours. Their workers will be working less hours. "Again, you simply cannot make the min wage a yearly salary, it would ruin various farming industries and any other part time work. People in school can often only do part time which, if they had to be paid x-amount yearly, nobody would hire them." And if they had to be paid x amount hourly then they will get less hours. So what have you solved?
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  50. There are plenty of left wing politicians in the US. You are so extreme left that anyone who is a moderate, like me, is a conservative to you. That's fine. Ultra conservative feel that I am a liberal, so I get it from both sides.
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  51. The fact is that you are a radical leftist. Is there anything wrong with that? In some ways there is because you have a distorted view on things. It doesn't make you a bad person, it just makes you ignorant. As I said, I get called liberal from several friends and family who are extreme conservative. There are plenty of left wing politicians in the US, you just don't feel that way due to your distorted views on things.
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  52. I am a moderate, you are an extreme leftest. That is why you feel I am a conservative when I am not. There may be people who are more leftest than you but that still doesn't change the fact that you extreme as well. You support single payer which will not work federally. I am opposed to it federally but see the benefits of it being established at the state and local level. That is why i am a moderate, I don't totally dismiss an idea, I look at it entirely and then make a decision.
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  53. A business hires more people to make the job easier for workers. But if it becomes too expensive they will refrain from that.
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  54. TYT supporters don't know much. For example that average age of 35 was referenced by Obama and was classified as "mostly false" by politifact.
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  55. Actually there are few people that can do that job. They are the face of the show which makes the show run. Also all that money comes from sponsors.
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  56. "problem is if you do everything by the market value, people would compete for 2-3$ hr job and soon there will be masters and slaves" Not true. People would not work for $2-3 per hour unless prices were very low or you are in that dire of a situation. In the latter case you are responsible for getting out of that situation.
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  57. Min. wage jobs are the lowest of the low. They are jobs that don't even require a high school diploma. If you can't get a job above that then you are pretty much worthless.
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