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Min wage increase
- Thread starter Joe Bass
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I got a giggle out of your post. My mom quit smoking when they went up to 35 cents a pack. When I got married gas was 29 cents a GALLON. My brand new 1970 Corolla ($1979.00) anoyed the crap out of me because it wouldn't take a $4.00 fill-up of premium that would entitle me to a free bottle of Pepsi.
In the mid 1960's the minimum wage was $0.80 IIRC. Now it's 18 times that. A decent job was $5K a year and now its 20 times that BUT the house we were living in then was worth $15,000.00. Now it's $1.5 million, a hundred times the old price.
Bread or a quart of milk was under a quarter.
In the 1970's my cheapskate brother-in-law got my wife to buy him an ice cream cone because he didn't want to break a one dollar bill. Yes, that cheap.
Where in the Hammer do you get a house for $300K? My daughter bought near Gage Park 10 years ago well under $200K and they are now double that for a fixer upper.
Optical store needs a government subsidy? My daughter worked in one and quit because of the pricing con games. Weigh a pair of glasses and calculate the cost per pound. It's the opticals they say. Price a decent SLR camera that also happens to have opticals.
Back to basics, it's a shame we don't understand English anymore. People make statements that roll nicely off the tongue but are a total deception and we accept the statements as valid.
Picket sign says "I DESERVE A HOUSE"
NO B**** You deserve the opportunity to get a good education and the presence of stable banking system that together will enable you to earn a decent living so that if you live prudently you can save enough money to buy a house.
My version doesn't fit on a picket sign.
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Now there's something worth talking about. Luxottica is one of the most obviously crooked operations around, when is that going to get toppled
I'm going by recall but my daughter's problem with their ethics might have been up-selling.
You up-sold glasses for a kid by pushing more expensive plastic lenses because they won't break.
You up-sold glasses for an adult by pushing more expensive glass lenses because they won't scratch.
Even non-prescription Raybans @ $200 a pop and up. They weigh an ounce. $3200 a pound, $7000 a Kg.
Any wonder why Pacific Mall exists.
I'm aware that tinted glass doesn't give UV protection so be aware of tinted glasses that don't offer UV protection as they could be worse than nothing, tricking your eyes into thinking they're protected.
Riceburner
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but you forget the cost of style and brand name......lol
Gotta laugh at ppl(relative) buying LV cause the ugly logo is plastered all over the outside.
Gotta laugh at ppl(relative) buying LV cause the ugly logo is plastered all over the outside.
daught
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Do you actually think any business would keep people even if they cost $5/hr if they could be replaced by kiosks? This was coming anyways, the wage increase just helped them rationalize it. Libs got some votes, the cons mouths foamed and secured even more votes for the libs.
Remember the times before UPC's? Someone had to put a price sticker on every can of peas. Price check line four! Now no benefits, sexual harassment issues, overtime, vacation pay, WSIB, employment insurance, CPP, OHIP. Higher wages increase those as well. Expect more self check outs at the grocery store.
There is an employee head count number that triggers a whole new list of problems for the employer. If you can drop your employee count below that number you can beat some costly regulations under a small business ruling.
For example small businesses get tax breaks (No OHIP isn't free) and access to grants.
As a customer I would like a person to serve me to process special payments or discount. Any questions that I may have too.
I do not think people would've lost their jobs if they had to pay them $15
If this happened this year in Ontario you'd be saying "good job Wynne".
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/...citizens-to-pump-their-own-gas-for-first-time
Point is these things happen. ATMs, self-serve gas, McDonald's self-serve Kiosks. Business is gonna business.
BTW the min wage increase was always predicted to cause a loss of some lower wage jobs to automation. Just as it was always expected to cause prices to increase. Of course detractors act like those are the *only* outcomes of the change, but they're really not. Prices have increased continuously since forever, same with job automation. Those are hardly markers of a suffering economy!
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JTR
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Climate change happens on it's own too, lots of things happen on their own without some idiot trying to accelerate the **** out f it. Hell let's just cut to the chase, make minimum wage $100 now instead of waiting 30 years, and see what a dollar is worth tomorrow. Or how about this, population is gonna grow anyway, lets just nix the birth control and everybody start banging everybody, atleast that will be fun. Oh I have a good idea, everyone is going to die anyway, let's just legalize murder and give everybody guns.
It's always easy to say "oh well it was going to happen anyway".
FYI, yes the results were predicted, but only by conservatives. Lefties have always assumed that that business could, should and would just absorb the blow.
It's always easy to say "oh well it was going to happen anyway".
FYI, yes the results were predicted, but only by conservatives. Lefties have always assumed that that business could, should and would just absorb the blow.
Stickers were a small part of the job. Someone still has to stock and face everything.
I thought you guys fight for the poor? How is that going to fight poverty?
I get it, you fight for the lazy.
You obviously didn't work the frozen food aisle. For every single item you had to warm a spot, stick a price sticker on and hold it there until it stuck. Yes, a case of Campbell soup cans could be priced in less than 5 seconds. A case of frozen juice cans would take significantly longer.
I don't know who 'you guys' is. If you stop thinking about society as a competition between 'sides' you might understand things more clearly.
I didn't read it like that. I think most ppl are complaining about the too much too fast. I personally have never had a $4/ hour raise. I won't even get into %
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