Okay, so let's take this into consideration:
Exactly how many people are there out there that would merely require training wheel jobs, as you put it? Fetch me the numbers, then compare to the actual number of people employed in such jobs. Pretty damn sure that the number of people employed vastly outnumbers the number of people that could be employed in said jobs. Perhaps even by an order of magnitude. (As an aside, the industry only has itself to blame for outgrowing its labor pool. The only reason these businesses are able to get away with it is because things are simply that crap-sack and people are desperate.)
And let's take it a step further. Shift managers, assistants.... How much do they make? These, by their very definition, should not be training wheel jobs. However, each and every one of these stores will employ anywhere between five to ten persons in the middle-rank positions. Not very many of them make more than $15/hr.
Finally: where do most of these 'entry level position' people live? Ghettos. Slums. Lower class living areas. Bet you that the only ones that live in the middle class neighborhoods are the ones that already have a bread winner in the household. These would be the young adults and the spouses.
So, try that argument again. It's as flimsy as it accuses the video of being.
The math is simple. Pay out more. Don't jack up the prices by more than a reasonable margin. Demand increases. Industry is driven. Tax revenues increase. America moves forward.
Exactly how many people are there out there that would merely require training wheel jobs, as you put it? Fetch me the numbers, then compare to the actual number of people employed in such jobs. Pretty damn sure that the number of people employed vastly outnumbers the number of people that could be employed in said jobs. Perhaps even by an order of magnitude. (As an aside, the industry only has itself to blame for outgrowing its labor pool. The only reason these businesses are able to get away with it is because things are simply that crap-sack and people are desperate.)
And let's take it a step further. Shift managers, assistants.... How much do they make? These, by their very definition, should not be training wheel jobs. However, each and every one of these stores will employ anywhere between five to ten persons in the middle-rank positions. Not very many of them make more than $15/hr.
Finally: where do most of these 'entry level position' people live? Ghettos. Slums. Lower class living areas. Bet you that the only ones that live in the middle class neighborhoods are the ones that already have a bread winner in the household. These would be the young adults and the spouses.
So, try that argument again. It's as flimsy as it accuses the video of being.
The math is simple. Pay out more. Don't jack up the prices by more than a reasonable margin. Demand increases. Industry is driven. Tax revenues increase. America moves forward.