I think in the future drones could deliver fast food to us.
Please allow me to rewrite just a tad:
“I think in the future drones will deliver fast food to us.”
Once the technology matures, it will make no sense to put a car and driver on a road to travel 10 miles when the direct route of a drone is under 3 miles, and it will do it all day and night and never get tired.
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If the worry is solely about families making minimum wage, there’s much more sensible ways to improve their lives,
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Right. That’s why just an “across the board” increase based on the idea that a single mom otherwise needs food stamps to feed her 3 kids on minimum wage is short-sighted.
So there is no difference a drone that lives in NYC or somewhere else. No living wage for drone.
The Royal Farms chain of restaurant/convenience stores in Maryland automated ordering at the Fried Chicken counter some time ago. Usually there is just one person at the hot food counter and often that person was called away doing other tasks whenever I visited the store. I read that late last year Royal Farms is challenging Wawa in the metro Philadelphia market.
I’m pretty sure we’re still a long way from drone deliveries.
I don’t know, my kid brought home a drone to play. You could set a GPS location and hit deliver.
This will be fun. I envision NYC protesters shutting down the drones over Manhattan that are delivering big macs from some non-decrepit giant warehouse in NJ.
The technology to create a drone that could deliver is still 4 or 5 years away, the regulations will come a few years after that, adoption (keeping in mind stores won’t want to adopt them until all kinks are worked out and price points have fallen low enough) will take several years longer.
I think it’s less than 5 years but not longer. It’s regulation that is the problem.
Excellently stated.
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So much for @emilybee’s worry about employers competing to race to the bottom.
“I haven’t seen anyone come out against the idea of a minimum wage at all in this topic.”
I agree with you. Why NY chose to raise NYC fast food workers from $8.75 to $15.00 in only 3 years is hard to understand. Where will this put them compared to other workers in the Big Apple?
This was touched on earlier. In my county in NY State there are 15 fast food restaurants that will be affected by the new law. There used to be only 8 of them so the fast food industry has expanded here like it has in other places. Unlike our other restaurants they never go out of business, and are usually mobbed at lunch time and at dinner time. They all offer discount coupons throughout the year and I’m looking at the latest ones from Subway and KFC right here on my desk.
We have about 15 pizza joints too and they never go out of business. There has to be a shift in lower-skilled workers to fast food places when the law takes effect. Why work for $9 or $10 an hour when you can make $15 an hour for doing the same type of work?
^ I’m not really worried about companies competing to race to the bottom. In fact, I believe the opposite will happen when the min wage is raised for fast food restaurants… Employers who pay less than what the fast food industry pays will lose good employees to the companies who are paying a higher wage. This is exactly why Target, TJX, etc., raised their min. wage right after Walmart announced it was.
But it does go both ways - like in the auto industry.
I just find it incredibly sad that there are people in this country who think paying people $7.25 an hour is OK.
“Where will this put them compared to other workers in the Big Apple?”
The average first year salary of a sanitation worker in NYC is $33K but with overtime $43K. After 5 years the avg is $69K - before OT. Plus, the benefits they get are outstanding. This is a job which only requires a high school diploma.
http://nypost.com/2014/09/25/60k-to-take-civil-service-exam-to-try-to-land-city-sanitation-jobs/
Emily, that also doesn’t include things like snow, driving a truck or dumping a truck. At top pay, most sanitation workers make in the $100,000-$130,000 range with truly excellent benefits. Unfortunately, in the last few years it’s become almost impossible to get those kinds of jobs or any other similar jobs. There are actually lotteries to sit for the tests.
I have very mixed feelings about the $15 minimum wage. As a matter of compassion I can see it, and I also think fast food chains can afford it, but the split between those chains and other employers causes significant problems that I’m not sure can be resolved satisfactorily. I worry that the people who really need that first job will be shut out of any job at all because those fast food restaurants paying $15 can and will be picky about who they hire, and I’m in the camp that some wage is better than no wage.
I would just really hate to see this as yet another opportunity to exclude young black men from the first rung of the labor market, as other practices have done over the years. It has almost always been possible for a young black man to get a job at McDonald’s or some such. I hope that will still be the case.
How many drones does it take to deliver a Big Mac in a blizzard?
A drone probably can’t fly in a blizzard.
I think it’s fine to pay a 16 year old the current minimum wage.
Do I think it’s fine for a single parent trying to feed 3 kids? No. But, there should be and there are other means to help folks in that situation (child care assistance, free breakfast/free lunch, food stamps, tax credits, etc).
And, as mentioned earlier, there should be a more aggressive system in place for single parents to collect child-support. We’d have far fewer single moms raising kids on minimum wage if the other parent was truly required to pay support. The answer isn’t letting those jerks off the hook by raising the minimum wage excessively for everyone.
It’s silly to think that a 16 year old with her first job at McD’s needs to get paid $15 an hour.
Even though not stated, this means then that the single parent should have a different job than the 16-year old, since it is the job that makes the money, not the person; however, it is the person who gets paid. A 16 year-old at a minimum wage job is worth the exact same as a single parent in the same job.
To ever make not the case would be the equivalent to giving of different SAT scores for the exact same right and wrong answers on the same test between different students, one being favored and the other not. Same work means same worth and same score.