Reply #35: Burger flippers are not in a position to *make demands* ... [View All]

Copied from another thread where you posed this question:

Sorry but this argument sounds like typical Republican dribble from people who dont know what it's like to uhm "flip burgers."

Clue #1. Burger flippers are a dime a dozen. Minimum wage workers often dont exceed that wage much regardless of so called experience. Minimum wage jobs don't generally entail much training, or experience - everyone is expendable.

Clue #2. People argue that minimum wage is meant to be a starting point, thus we should leave it alone. Well guess what, it's also an ending point for many people who haven't much of a choice in this life.

Clue # 3. It's not as though you can walk into Burger King and say, well sir I've flipped burgers for 10 years, I can't work for minimum wage (been there, done that)

This is such a ridiculous argument from the "let them eat cake crowd" I can hardly hear it without becoming totally enraged.

It's also a joke to suggest that anyone working for minimun wage, or managing said workers is actually in a position to uhm *bargain* ...