Comments by "" (@jonlittle5032) on "Why Blue Bottle Workers Are Unionizing" video.

  1. There is a confusion between profit and total cost. The difference between 90 seconds of labor and a $7 sale is not profit. How much did the roast cost? How much is the cost of the financing for the building, the utilities, the back office support, the cup, the clutch, the napkins, the equipment, the maintenance? Raising wages would not come out of 'profits'; it would come out of the increased purchase price. To assert or imply otherwise misleads and distracts from the real issues. There needs to be an across the board wage increase, a real minimum wage increase. But to assert that increase will come at the expense of profits is disingenuous and serves only to create a hostile political debate.
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  2.  @expedition346  Increase wages and the price will go up to sustain the profits. Wage increases come out of gross revenue.
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  3. One $7 latte in 1 1/2 minutes; after 5 minutes, that is $21 an hour for wages. Or $43,000 a year. Define livable wages, please.
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