California Dreamin’: Minimum Wage Hikes Lead to Fewer Jobs and Higher Prices 

You got that 100% right? Actually, he make slime look good!

Yet he's a presidential candidate

@@acupuncturekid Well, you see with the scum bags in this country voted for last time!

Incorrect. The slimiest of slime award goes to none other than Trumpty Dumbty, the most detestable thing on two legs and that's being nice.

He's related to Nancy Piglosi, what would you expect?

And it's always a disappointment.

Agreed, most women now days aren’t worth the time and cost.

I have'nt been able to afford eating out for a long time. I can feed myself for two days on what one takeout meal costs these days. And as others have said, the takeout food quality is low these days.

The minimum wage should be $22hr now.

I also stopped eating out. It makes no economic sense. Back a few years ago, I would take the family out for a nice dinner on weekends, as a ¨reward¨ for all the hard work we all did. Nowadays it cost more than $100 for a nice family meal, food quality went down, service quality went down... now my wife and I just take turns and learn new recipies for the weekend. A nice homemade lasagna with sides, salad, and a bottle of wine cost us around $50 to make (and better quality ingredients), and we still have leftover for the next day.

And then...go look for another job..but employers can't afford to hire because of the $20.00/hr.

IM LOVIN IT!

A lesson in basic economics

And the ones that do still have jobs, still can't get orders right. Fast food workers may as well be politicians. They're the only other group that I've seen fail upwards and get rewarded for it.

Thats actually happening

Fooled me. Not about the people who elect certain politicians. That's no surprise. The part about politicians understanding how economics (or even business) works; especially since many, if not most of them are lawyers. Hell, one of them is a former bartender who actually (purportedly) minored in economics. You'd think that of all of them, she at least one have at minimum a general sense of how business works.

@44 You make a great argument, I could go into detail but I’ll start with the basics. Ppl by nature want what others have and more, is it unfair, absolutely, does it also fuel innovation, absolutely. I’ll make a great example of why we need social classes with regards to income. I grew up poor, violent household etc. lived in a car basically at 15. I worked 2 FT jobs, paid MY OWN COLLEGE and I currently own 3 businesses. During my teen up until last year, I worked a minimum of 80 a week. Through my hard work and dedication I make over $300k a year. I have employees I pay well etc. Next year I’ll semi retire and still make over $200k a year. The reason I worked my ass off was because as a MAN, it’s my responsibility to protect and provide for my family. Did I give up a lot, absolutely, do I wish I didn’t do it, not once. The moral is, ppl will be ppl, expecting to limit one’s work ethic and think those who risked it all should not be rewarded is not logical or rational thinking. Someone has to but those Rolls and Bentleys or they go out of business and more unemployed in the workforce. Someone has to buy the Gucci, LV etc. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m saying it’s impossible to have the whole pie, you gotta share and the person who tends to risk it all gets the biggest slice. No different than if you and someone else is working and at review time you never missed a day but your coworkers did every week, I’d assume you would be pissed if they got a big raise and you didn’t. It’s unfair but remember, never bite the hand that feeds you.

You're exactly right. The people DO need higher wages. It's a cost of living issue. But it's also ILLEGAL for public companies to give their shareholders less money. The problem goes deeper than the average person can easily see at a glance. The simplest solution isn't always the correct one, in this case, simply raising wages. We need deeply intelligent people working behind the scenes to lower the cost of living for the poor. If the government didn't intervene in basic grocery stores to control prices, shareholders could sue them out of business because the poor can't sustain constant growth. Just like they can't sustain constant growth in the housing market. The poor also need to learn their place and stop living above their means.

Its called Ochlocracy

Those days are long gone. Teenagers can't work certain shifts, which tend to be the busiest. If you also look at the demographic numbers, there are literally not enough born either to cover all the necessary locations. Not to mention that they are having trouble competing with other industries that pay better.

And we partied out ass off...lolll

It is a great training center for workers entering the workforce.

Mine was mowing lawns then construction. I never worked fast food or grocery stores. I been a contractor all my life

This isn't 1965 anymore.

INFINITY minimum wage per hour, NOW!! 😁

Democrats government. This is all by design. They want California to be the rich man state. Not a state for everyone.

The scariest words “we’re from the government and we’re here to help.” - Ronald Regan

@@foxyladyoakit’s almost like the government wants to be God.

Fast food prices will go up. Idc I haven’t had fast food in 20 years.

I disagree they both are the people for voting and the politicians for their arrogance

That was no black woman ....that was Uncle Ruckus in Drag....

A”PROUD BLACK WOMAN”…..🥳

Implying companies wouldnt replace workers if they were paid 10 an hour?

@@Xenozillex That depends. Can the robots do the job for a lower cost? For every employer the answer is different.

She doesn't care, she got her bag

Goodbye fake jobs lol. Boomers will have to make their own food now.

100%. It's just another opportunity for the leftys to virtue signal. That's what they love to do.

I think he also mentioned how wage increases only benefit people already in the labour market.

@@ralphrugan5985 Just what makes you think those jobs were fake? Granted, they weren't high paying, but where else are young people going to gain experiance and develop?

@@ralphrugan5985 What do you call a fake job? How is the job fake? WTF do you mean? Then you throw in some hating for people you don't know.

Progressive policies are Best

But at least they got $20 an hour…. lol

Yeah, you Did that! Take a bow knowing you are an incompetent along with your simple uneducated mind

Minimum wage remains the same and we still end up losing 10,000 jobs.

@@skyranger1366 lol no…not exactly how it works.

California is ALWAYS a perfect example of what not to do. (The only exception is drink deposits, which cut littering and encourage the homeless to earn money at almost no cost to the state.)

Is CA worse than NYC ?

@@mikelarry2602 Probably, only because it’s larger.

If you're making minimum wage, and the minimum wage goes up... *_you're still only making minimum wage!_*

@@djm5687 and the price of everything goes up too, like they really think this magic trick will lift the entire lower class out of poverty into a new type of middle class? Nah, they need millions of people on the bottom for a reason, and they can just determine both the floor and the ceiling since they print the infinite money

@@djm5687 If raising the minimum wage doesn't work, what should we do instead? Telling people to "get a better job" isn't enough because a lot of people can't afford college, or they lack the 5 years experience that entry level jobs ask for these days. How do we help those people?

@@riakriak7270 How about copy what Switzerland is doing?

@@riakriak7270 You need to look harder *like I did!* Take on a 2nd job, if possible, and *save and invest* as much money as possible. Look for jobs where advancement is possible. Even if you have a full-time job (40+ hours), you *still have plenty of time to look for higher paying jobs.* In answer to your question "How do we help these people?": You *_allow them to help themselves._* If necessary, government could introduce training programs, rather than spending money on abortions, foreign aid, aid for illegals, etc.

Good on you, jai jai! And how about you put your money where your mouth is and work for, say, $7.50/hr for the rest of your life so you can TRULY show your support for these poor, poor companies, h'mmm?

Thomas Sowell is full of clever quotes.

A century ago the workers at factories near here were unionized, went on strike, succeeded in making the business close down. Everyone lost their jobs and the business owner's son grew up to be a union busting lawyer.

And? The minimum wage should be $22.00 an hour right now if it kept up with inflation and production. Stop quoting people that don't make any sense.

@@RealMTBAddict It doesn't make sense to you because you don't understand economics.

​@@iamscoutstfu Perhaps, you'd prefer these workers who are trying to make ends meet, paid their employers for the privilege of working for them? Yes, you just keep supporting these poor, poor companies and their propaganda every chance you get.

​@@dnzswithwombatsI think people like you should do all these poor, poor companies a BIG favour, put your money where your mouth is and work 40 hours a week for, say, $10/hr. That way you can directly save all these poor, poor companies.

I left CA in 2002. I will never go back.

I left Feb. '23 at 37 years old. Born and raised in Cali, and I'm so glad I left.

Just give Calofornia to the Mexicans.

No one wants to work anymore because these are unliveable wages

and for what cause?? for their sick beliefs.

Why do you hate capitalism kid?

@@classreductionist I'm being sarcastic?

@@classreductionist Using government and/or abusing law to affect wage rates is NOT Capitalism but SOCIALISM. In capitalism all transactions are negotiated by the two affected parties at arms length NOT via unions or law ie so that the price of any good or service in that free market will reach its on natural equilibrium. Government or Union intervention on the price of labour ie wages is bound to affect the demand just as raising the price of anything (except for griffin/luxury goods) will decrease the demand - its basic human nature which socialists don't understand.

That SEIU sistah is probably making bank off this shenanigan.

And yet, the big cities in commiefornia keep voting him in... EVEN WHEN he was recalled, TWICE, they voted to keep him in... then again, I personally think he got his votes the same way biden did.

no, Californians destroyed California.

Ronald Reagan was the start of the destruction of California

@techtoyota9725 why would I vote for him, I recalled him twice and voted against him and any democrat every time.

He had help from Jerry Brown.

The unfortunate truth is that Gavin Newsom will probably be elected President in 2028.

In all recorded history there is one truth which has zero exceptions. The larger and more powerful any government, the more destructive and in the case of the federal government the more deadly they always become. That is why the Founders did their best to create LIMITED government and even gave us the tool, the 2nd Amendment, to use if their efforts failed.

@@mikewurlitzer5217 ..that’s all NPC.. You guys whine bout big gubmint, but what you really want is your own to force onto everyone else.. It’s your pet capitalism that needs so much laws and regulations due to its corrupt nature to begin with.

Tiffany, I want to understand that, but I need to see examples, not just your claims..

​@almaelizondo187 because businesses are moving out of California over it and the few staying are doing massive layoffs and price hikes

❤. You should have known if you're going to raise minimum wage the price of the product is going to be double of what it is now

​@@bruceblackwell2205most of the union's leadership only got a GED. They never took economics class in high school

@@bruceblackwell2205 These disillusioned people display the level of ignorance in America today, and this so-called "administration" is taking full advantage of it too.

Yea, they sure did..😢 The result of bad parenting. Totally destroying the State and any future opportunity. So now the restaurants will belly up 😮

​@bruceblackwell2205 she failed basic math

Remember this when they run him for President. THAT party is Dead--no intelligence, no heart, no vision, no soul.

Why should they, they are in a popularity contest. The people who should know ecomonics are the voters as they are the ones that have to live with the results of the politicians actions.

Should be a requirement that candidates for a political position must work at least 2 years in private sector and preferrably in a leadership position

They never are held accountable for the unintended effects of their policies. They manage to fool the voters with their excuses.

They can't balance the budget or slow their spending but they come out of it all richer..

Never trust some rich a-hole whose never worked a day in their life to understand a market economy.

She did. Looking for change and livable wages the nerve of her. 😑 It's okay to want and need and ask for a raise to be able to live

@@peanutsarecheap1997 She needs to learn the skills to get good jobs and not have to worry about minimum wage anymore. Entry level jobs were never meant to be a career, and certainly not meant to get a high minimum wage.

And working fast food is the way ? Wow.. not how I figured it out. This does NOT work.

​@@peanutsarecheap1997socialist smooth brain detected.

​@@peanutsarecheap1997Failing to understand economics, thereby costing thousands of people their jobs. Yes. She did that.

My dad's cousin, who visited from San Francisco, once told me California was truly the land of fruits and nuts. This was the early 1980s and it wasn't as evident. As the years have passed, though...

They sometimes have too to not be voted out. If enough people demand something, it might just happen.

They only care about the union lobbyists.

I've come to the conclusion that they actually HATE us, especially after learning about "Gain of Function."😔

Politicians don’t learn anything.

Yep. Donald Trump couldn't give a rodent's nether region's for workers anywhere.

Yeah, why isn’t that a bill? Cap their pay, financial oversight committee for all state officials. That will clean up Ca real fast.

I worked 15 dollars an hour acouple of years ago. It wasn't enough for me, so I saved 5k , went to cdl school, got my cdl and paid myself back the 5k in 2 months, and now I'm making 30 an hour, and I just got my hazmat and tankers to make even more money lol

Most of those politicians aren't worth a wooden nickel.

@@brusso456 They are paid shills of the capitalist bosses.

I believe their value is negative.

Go back to the 19th century

They are organized by the government

Those "activists" are funded.

Yeah it’s TOTALLY on the people trying to survive out here and not these greedy corporations.

@@Dr.BatmanPhD what you don’t understand is that those activists are doing the politicians bidding, whether they realize it or not.

Marxist democrats depend upon this tactic to attract the ignorant vote.

You got that right. Rep. Barbara Lee (Oakland, CA - surprise) wants the Federal minimum wage to be $50. Talk about bankrupting a country overnight.

If raising the minimum wage doesn't work, what should we do instead? Telling people to "get a better job" isn't enough because a lot of people can't afford college, or they lack the 5 years experience that entry level jobs ask for these days. How do we help those people?

@@riakriak7270 First of all, *do not go to college.* It's a waste of time and money. You want to get a good job? Go to a trade school, learn aircraft mechanics. Graduate to a job pulling 6 figures.

@@riakriak7270 _"If raising the minimum wage doesn't work, what should we do instead?"_ It is interesting how many young socialists point to Nordic countries as examples of "Successful Socialism," even though they are not. Then they ignore how those same Nordic countries do not have any minimum wage and are doing just fine. The Real Minimum Wage is Zero.

Dumping gas on a fire will put it out. They just didn't dump enough gas on it. That's their logic

I don't think their vote really matters, the political system is corrupted to the core.

they know not to bite the hand that feeds them. you understand? no retiree is going to go up in arms ; regardless of what the younger generations want to do. once that buffer of retirees is gone. its all gonna come crashing down. why? because there will be a gap of about 5 or 6 years where there are no new retirees . in that gap is where all hell will break loose.

Purple hair, not knowing if they are m or f , do you really think these people are competent enough to vote?

You can’t educate the uneducated…

Yes. Better we keep those pleb workers down and working for say, $10/, er no, that's STILL too generous. Let's make sure they only get $5/hr. That way, economically, no companies or businesses will go bust and their CEO's etc., will get even BIGGER payouts! Brilliant, sonny, just brilliant!

​@@747faYour comment makes the assumption that there is "only one giant company that controls all the jobs". Employees are always free to look for higher paying jobs elsewhere. Small businesses are a great way to support employees who want to aquire skills and higher wages.

@@747fa You truly proved how economically illiterate you are. If it actually worked in the manner that you are implying, then how does anyone make more than minimum wage? If all companies just pay the "pleb workers" the minimum, nobody could possibly make more than minimum wage. People get paid based upon the value that they add. Who would it benefit for government to cause companies to go out of business? Would the employees who lost their jobs be better off? Would other businesses and their workers be better off from the lost sales that are caused by the first company going out of business? When the minimum wage goes up, it causes price increases, so those big companies can just raise their prices and they can make the same amount that they did before after adjusting for the minimum wage induced inflation. Beyond that, companies start taking away perks, only give the minimum pay increase required, cut hours and cut job. Minimum wage increases also squeeze the people making more than minimum wage because they never get the full minimum wage increase, which would still be a pay cut because they make less than the percentage of minimum wage than they did before. For example, if minimum wage is $10 and it goes up to $11, that is a 10% increase. Someone making $15 an hour would be luck to get the $1 raise, but they would actually need a raise of $1.50 to keep their wages 50% above minimum wage.

.3% of companies create 1/3 of the jobs. There is an illusion of choice that you can just "get a job elsewhere," when these companies have monopolized the market and government influence.

@@747fa I'd rather be making $5/hr than $0/hr.

Feels like that's more in the realm of corporate class consolidation of revenue at the expense of the lower level employees and customer base then anything else... also known as inshitification.... remember when poor people had money in the pandemic the economy boomed and fast food rose the fastest because it was allowed to stay open....

Yep, that's the type of "blackmail" these companies will stoop to to achieve even higher profits at the expense of the workers. If companies like Walmart had their way they'd charge you and me for the privilege of working for them.

Perhaps you should have gotten a second job.

​@@willie1genesis714The economy didn't "boom" during the pandemic - there was a recession.

​@@747faThey're *employees,* not "workers". How much of a profit should companies be "allowed" to make, in your opinion? Finally, competition (other businesses) helps employees. Employees *are always free to seek other higher paying jobs.* A free market makes minimum wage laws unnecessary. Look at Sweden, Norway, etc.

They always are 😅

I thought he owned or backed a few himself? No one cares when you state this fact sadly.

Panerera of course. His good buddy...Jose Alberto Dueñas

@@matthewchown530 More! More examples please.

@@OmeedNOuhadi There were more and I forgot!! Panera absolutely!!

@@matthewchown530 Such corruption. Disgusting piece of excrement, Newsome.

You are absolutely right ,firstly I believe money in the bank is not money because it is bond to inflation and losses values overtime, You have to be well disciplined to achieve success and save before you spend Lastly success does not happen overnight it takes time, dedication and self discipline

money is a liability, not an asset. You have to exchange it for assets that represent real VALUE. Real estate - properties for rent. Stocks (dividends). Bonds (interest), funds, REITs (interest), intellectual property, The aid of an institutional or basic financial advisor's cannot be over expressed. I started saving and investing in 1989 at the age of 20... I am 54 today and have 2.2 million in my retirement account, 135k liquid and I trade securities with 50-55k

I'm bombarded with the don't sit on it during the inflation, I wanted to jump in 8/22 and did nothing. So far this year I think I need to get my feet wet but I stopped listening and taking financial advise from RU-vidrs, because at the end of the day, I end up with a bunch of confusing stories. Have you always had guidance?

There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Aileen Gertrude Tippy’’ for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.

Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I needed this myself, I looked her up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.

Have you seen "robots" cleaning dirty, filthy toilets properly? Have you seen robots making beds? These tasks will prove MOST interesting seeing as how your robots are going to move in and take jobs so soon.

@@747fa The absolute hubris of your "points" is astounding.

​@@747farobots can be easily designed to do such jobs it always depends on cost

Poor people are easy to control.

​@@747faHome Depot already sells self cleaning toilets. I suggest that you look it up.

it amazes me how people project ignorance and stupidity onto millionaires who harm the country. newsom net worth $20 million.

You said exactly what I was going to say. Politicians making these policies know what the outcome will be. It's done on purpose. I get angry at how willingly ignorant people are becoming to the point they're easily swayed and manipulated to the point they cheer on their own demise. Lemmings.

Yep, all the chaos of today is all planned

Stossel still has residual brain damage from Dave Schultz.

Democrats have been dismantling the workforce for years

So…that means raising the minimum wage was needed.

​@@AJ-ib4oy ....no, when you raise miminum wage, you put everyone deeper into a hole. And you, if anything, hurt people more. If you want more money, go earn it. Be a productive member to yourself, and learn, pay if you have to, to get yourself the proper training that you need.

​@AJ-ib4oy I'd ask if you even watched the video, but your name clearly shows you're a bot 😂

@@mr.joshua204what you are saying is fast food workers don’t deserve more because they are not productive enough? Lol

No he's saying fast food work or restaurant work is entry-level work. Those jobs are for high schoolers. ​@@kinosyk

Unfortunately many do. Too many were sold the idea that minimum wage was intended as a living wage. Sadly they are now out of a job.

If that is so why are these businesses are open during school hours and late at night?

They absolutely know about those things but the lobbyist control them

That is why we need less Government in our lives. The constitution was created to protect us from the Government, its why they are trying to whittle away at it.

nowadays it's probably because they're DEI lawyers...

I love how they think their position gives them immeasurable knowledge about EVERYTHING! I'm tired of them playing doctor and telling actual doctors what medications can be prescribed, in what amounts and to whom. (Basically only they truly get what they need while the rest of us just have to hope we can)

They tell us to trust the science as they never took a science class in their lives.

They aren’t asking because legacy media support and push the Far Left’s agenda. Gruesome Newsom is their guy.

because only 1.8% of California fast food workers lost their jobs while 2.7% of the Californian civilian labour force just got a rise or in other words over half a million people got a rise while 10k lost their jobs primarily the young. also you are watching the mainstream media hes an ex fox news reporter known for things like claiming there being no proof second hand smoke is harmful and distorting facts to suit is views, suing fact checkers for fact checking his claims and getting the case dismissed.

@@sirlinkthefourth6755 Where are you getting these statistics from? The article I read says that about 500,000 fast food workers are keeping their jobs, so 10,000 jobs lost would be closer to 17%.

⁠@@sirlinkthefourth6755So 1.8% of fast food workers lost their jobs but 2.7% of all the civilian labor force got a pay raise? How about sticking to one specific demographic. You can’t compare apples to oranges no matter how much you try to extrapolate the data. As for Stossel working for Fox means nothing. A good reporter or journalist should be unbiased and able to work effectively for ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, etc. the second hand smoke trope was back in the 80’s. Maybe we have learned a little bit more medically since that time and forty years from now we will have a clearer picture of mandatory wages in our present time. There is no consolation prize for losing a job due to political policy.

What is point of working if you wages constantly devalued cuz money supply keeps increasing with every loan, all credit card, QE, Zirp or whatever financial gimmick they come up with?

I just would love to see the look on her face when she gets replaced buy AI

That's the problem she has never thought about other people she's only thinking about herself. Selfishness and self-centeredness is part of the reason this country is getting destroyed.

@@shortsign The bosses control all the factors of production except for union labor. They control the government, the banks, the money printing and the prices of housing, electricity, food and water. Naturally its stacked against us.

They do care about the repercussions. The "repercussions" are the intended effect.

@@Lord_Volkner Its just a ploy to get votes for Democrats as they pretend to be friends of labor.

when retired worker is gone and young people refuse to work. what happens next? look at whats happening in china with the unemployment and the youth refusal to work entirely. yeah; good economy. pfft. yeah right. china is beyond help now.

My local supermarket used to employ a lot of teenagers. Now, almost every employee is 40+. Similar situation at my local Walmart.

Retired people will go to work, not call in sick, and do a good job!!! Young people will play on their phones and say "Not my job" when told to do something...

@@johnjay6370 not true.... LMAO!! retired people cannot move as fast... back in their days..while working they only had to work a single job. They never had to work 5 to 8 jobs in a single job and get only one small pay that they cannot afford to pay rent on.

​@@bebdaumon3948hahaha, you really believe that retired people never had to multi-task at their jobs? Really? Can your understanding of the past really be that limited?

I assume you work at a private company? How would paying minimum wage workers more impact the profits of private business?

That's not how economics works. You obviously didn't pay attention to the video. When you increase minimum wage, you devalue those employees and middle class spending power. Because prices will be increased. However, fast food employees hours will be cut because guess what? The middle class will just eat out LESS. Which will hurt demand for fast food and the franchise owners bottom line. Making that minimum wage bump, not helpful at all. If everyone stops eating out, which is happening. Fast food will have to lower prices and continue to CUT people hours.

Work under the table and collect state benefits.

​@@bixbysnyder-00You dont think private businesses employ minimum wage workers?

​@@Slick1020It wouldnt result in cut hours at all, because the business still needs to operate at those hours. What it will do is result in cutting staff and a crappier end product.

Guarantee she won’t take responsibility for it now.

She only takes ownership if it makes her look good. Now that the situation turned out bad, she won't take ownership of it. Typical female behavior

I think so too.

... firing her, if it could even be done, would clearly be an act of racism because of her immense value to the employer...

they have no shame, she is evil and will just blame businesses for being greedy say it was a small business with only one store wont matter.

Thinking of how difficult it is to get a job, I think it’s time people start investing and earning their own money, the heartache from job hunt is quite unbearable, I for one would prefer investment than getting myself worked up on seeking a job

My primary issue right now is how to increase revenue during these tough times. I can't afford to see my savings disappear into thin air.

to be a successful in life required not only hard work but awareness and sometime opportunity at the moment, investment remains the best way to start.

I agree with you. Investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity. And not just any investment but an investment with guaranteed return.

Exactly and many of us don't know where to invest our money so we invest it on wrong place and to the wrong people

But have those tiny homes in texas been built?

California is Ukraine level corrupt

I wouldn't be shocked to hear that California one day has no idea where that $750 mil. went. Meanwhile, Newsom the snake keeps dragging California further down the toilet.

Still way too much

Where does that money come from and where going? Why do people get paid so much for social services but little old fast food workers cannot?

Kinda like ol' Karl Marx.

Or increase politicians’ salaries

Garbage food is luxury, how ironic. Now your health might be thankful, though

....fast food isn't a luxury. It's literally food drugs. Do you know how much msg McDonald's outs into their food, it's an addictive chemical like drugs, that's why people keep coming back

@@mr.joshua204 he meant it's expensive for him now.

Fast food has always been a luxury.

​@mr.joshua204 Lol. I love when people can write one sentence and you can tell their IQ is below room temperature. No offense to you personally

You want to talk welfare? Billionaires are the biggest recipients of government welfare. Tax cuts, tax breaks, and maybe even a new stadium or two built by taxpayers.

Mountain man you hit that right in the nose. Dam common sense

If your business can't pay people a living wage then that business is a failure.

These 'entry-level' jobs were never meant to support a family. They were supposed to be part time jobs for high school & college students. If you do the 'entry level' job for 20 years.. that's your fault. You're supposed to take on more responsibility and get promotions...more money.

​@bixbysnyder-00 Not billionaires, corporations. Just like bloated labor unions that use their weight to force politicians to give them what they want so to can bloated corporations. What's your solution?

Remember that the IDEA of a larger minimum wage “FEELS” good to a liberal… FACTS don’t matter!!😂

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” ― Joseph Stalin

World capitalism became Imperialism capitalism's its highest stage with world war one. Now America the last Imperialist Empire is following all the European and Japanese Empires into decline.

They don't teach anything about it in schools because to do so would bring up the question of the origin of the profit.

Economics only applies to poor people.

It's a "win win"!

Why stop at 100K. Just make it an even 1,000,000 while we’re at it.

There is actually a Senate candidate in California proposing just that

Counterpoint to your obvious strawman: why not just make it $0/hr, and let taxpayer funded welfare make up the shortfall in peoples' income?

@@carultchwell. You are half right.

Fast food is for young people to get experience in the work force

​@@juliemorgan4937naw u got grown ass ppl flipping burgers...and if that's the case why pay young ppl 20 bucks if they just there to get experience in the work force

Unless their not white then it’s an adult lol. Because white people look down on working people.

Here in San Antonio I make $15 an hr as a patient care assistant at a hospital after 3 yrs and our cap is $17. Bill Miller's employees start at $12 just to cook bbq..In N Out start employees at $15 something up to $18😑 Took me 3 yrs in healthcare field to make what a fry cook and burger maker to start out with. There's no incentive to work hard anymore when you cam doa basic job and make more than a skilled one and that's the real problem. $20 an hr for a McDonald's working making the same as a Surgical technician or LVN here is fcuking crazy. Nurses fresh out of school start out around 21 to 23 an hr🥴 so its like what's easier, going to school for 4 yrs and getting into debt for your job or being a high school student or having a diploma and making the same. We see where this generations entitlement and low drive to do better comes from

The non existant Service at fast food restaurants is pure garbage. Economy is going to 💩

Because people don't vote for successful business people, they vote for whomever tells them what they want to hear.

Same reason why people who have never been workers make laws for people who are workers. Do you really think any of the big tech company leaders, ie.. the most successful and predatory businesses in the world... should be a politician?

the democrat's dream

When the UAW got big raises for all the US auto workers, my first thought was "big win for Mexican workers".

The average person is an idiot.

​@OldSaltyBear so bring back manufacturing as long as it's low paid?

Oh, those poor, poor companies. Got news for you, sonny. This is propaganda pure and simple and the simple minds fall for it.

Wrong. The average person has been lied to into thinking regular workers don't deserve a living wage.

They hand out goodies to get re-elected.

That's what happens when you're a brainwashed fool who relies on their utterly *worthless* feelings. It's also what happens when they're allowed to have a say in anything.

And now I hear they are calling for $30/hr.

@@andrewschliewe6392 Yeah, I think I've heard the end goal is $50 an hour. Its not sane.

​@philhoward4744 They are money hungry. All they see is dollar bills.

You’re wrong. They know exactly how this affects us. Thats why they’re doing it.

>> Small businesses can't afford to automate That is nonsense. Just like every small business can use other machines, those aren't different. The fairy tale of "robots will replace us" is just that - a fairy tale. Meanwhile, even cheese in supermarket is sliced by human.

11 words

Regan ruined the asylums'.

@@guineapiglady2841 how? Did he start sending radical Democrats?

@@mikeklinger1712 Am I wrong? The asylums are closed.

​@@mikeklinger1712 LOL!!! How are you gonna quote the AS*HOLE THAT RUINED OUR COUNTRY? Come on Mike, do better!

😂😂. Let me see "robots" that can clean dirty filthy toilets properly, make beds and repair my car all without ANY help from humans.

@@747fayes they lay-off everyone except the toilet cleaner, manager and assistant manager. So you go from 5-7 employees to 3. And now the owner makes more money per store while reducing total overhead by cutting jobs.

​@@747faWhy do you assume that cleaning toilets, making beds, and repairing cars are the *_only_* jobs out there? Remember that this video pointed out that California's $20/hr law applies only to "fast food" (Panera Bread was exempt). By the way, self-cleaning toilets exist. There *are* robotic bed makers out there. Also, cars are more computerized than ever, making mechanics less necessary.

@@747fa Washing toilets and making beds is **completely** unskilled labor. You're silly to think robots can't do those jobs.

@@djm5687 More computers in cars makes mechanics LESS necessary? LOL Hilarious!

Came here to say the same thing!! “The poor get poorer!”

They know exactly what they’re doing they’re trying to creep massive unemployment which results in dependency that’s what the Democrats are all about the marxists Democrats are marks it’s only one in control independency feet they look like they’re trying to help you but you’re not

Right? Hello federal dollars to support ask the poor people here. He’s loving it.

IMO, politicians know EXACTLY what they are doing. They just don't care. Pandering for votes to get elected or re-elected.

Pay more taxes too so no good

What did you mean?

This is how the middle class gets screwed over while the rich get richer and the poor get to delude themselves into thinking they're as important as the rich.

Wage inflation is the result. To keep the hard-working, experienced employee who worked their way up, the employer will have to raise that employee's wages proportionate to the minimum wage increase. Minimum wage mandates really screw over employers. Especially small businesses.

@@mastergibs That hasn't happened in the past because a wage increase of this magnitude has never happened before. Suddenly the newbie, fast food worker is making nearly as much as the starting managers make. It will likely affect people outside of the fast food industry because there are many jobs that require more skill, experience, harder physical labor, or specialized training that don't pay $20/hour.

Sadly, their value decreased

Yeah, the people calling for $50 minimum wage don’t even realize that’s what some medical professionals and engineers make.

It's called wage compression and it's awful. I remember when my state went to a $15/hr minimum wage from $10.65/hr and it trashed employee morale in lower paid industries. Why go through all the stress of manufacturing or administrative work if some burger flipper is getting about as much as you? I remember clawing my way out of $10.65/hr to my first job that paid $20/hr prior to the change and it pissed me off. I didn't get a commensurate raise yet their work is suddenly worth more. In the end the usual song and dance happened, marginal businesses shut down, prices went up, and suddenly the kids were unemployed. I know a minimum wage job isn't exactly livable, it isn't supposed to be.

All it does is turn more jobs into minimum wage jobs.

North Korean vibes

California redemption value has been around since 1987 to promote recycling. Yes Newsome is terrible but this redemption plan has been around long before him

Many states have this, it is deposit on each bottle and can, and it is up to you to keep all your empties, and drive 30 miles to the redemption center, just to get your own money back.

Seems like a reasonable idea, but the problem with this policy is people don't want to just put their cans out for the recycling truck because they are worth too much to "give away". People go around at night and steal cans from the curb because its actually worth it. So everyone is forced to drive (as in waste gasoline and time) to bring them to recycling themselves. Do the math on 20 million cars in CA using 1 gallon of gas every month, 12 times a year, just to recycle their cans themselves. Now add in the fact that most of these facilities are really busy, and they have pretty limited hours, so you likely will have to wait in a small line or sometimes they are not open when they say they are (which seemed to happen alot) or they are just FULL and don't accept any more. So you have to come back again......

Michigan has had a 10 cent deposit on can ever since I was born 44 years ago. We can take ours can back to any supermarket and get the deposit back. If I had to drive 30 miles to a recycling center then that would be unreasonable. It doesn’t really help climate change either does it?

​​@@ifmbm332btrue. And in the end, it is the state that makes out like fat rats. NY did analysis of their 5 cent bottle deposit several years ago. The state was make several million dollars a year in the tax because people were not claiming their deposits back. Here in TN, we don't have that tax, and our recycling of aluminum is brisk. Why? Because the scrap yards pay you to bring it them. Many here recycle their aluminum because it pays well. We also have folks that will come collect any metal scrap that you have for free. You don't make any money on it, but they do, and it keeps stuff out of the landfill.

Part of the plan.

likely They will just get federal subsidizing for it. That's the while point of raising minimum wage. They get more taxs out of employee and employer. They literally are just giving themselves a raise. So by thier math. The shear numbers makes up for the loss of jobs

Causing yet lower revenue, more job losses, more people fleeing a Democrat-ruined state. Circling the drain, yet Democrats are evil and either slow-to-learn, or more likely, it is their deliberate agenda. Sadists and Satanists, habitual liars.

They have to many EVs in California that they are not getting enough revenue from Gas Tax. So now they adding Mileage tax what a 💩 show!

They have already ruined their economy to the point where they are no longer in the black with the fed.

Exactly, back in the 80s the minimum wage jumped 50 cents. I was a production lead at the fast food in a little town. All of a sudden the new kids got the same wage I was - after I had been there 4 years and had the door keys and safe combo. 😐

So the alternative is what? Pay everyone a wage that can't keep up with inflation?

@@davianoinglesias5030 I'm not sure what the solution is. To start, the shareholders of the. MegaCorporations need to take a hard look at the compensation package the C-suite gets. I have no problem with a CEO getting a million dollars worth of stock options, I do object to that CEO getting a million dollar salary while all the people that do the work get paid just above minimum wage. But that is not something the government should ever poke their noses into. Or maybe they should, instead of raising minimum wage - pass a law the no one who works in a company can make x amount over the minimum 🤔 Food for thought.

That's actually probably the smartest thing to do as a business owner in this environment. Stop hiding the labor costs and break it out as a separate item. Let people immediately see the increased labor costs instead of abstracting it away.

@@noname-gp6hk Sure, but it also directly results in your staff losing all of their tips and probably makes the restaurant still lose customers. It would probably be better if they put on their menu that because of the minimum wage change they had to post new prices on their menu rather than hitting customers with it on the check.

It's cheaper and better to go to a casual restaurant compared to McDonalds. I know I'll be paying about $50 for two adults but the service is fine and the food isn't terrible. Still a once in a while treat, but it's a lot more enjoyable.

That is just "Rhetoric" I have heard before

Prices will increase with or without minimum wage raises, how do you think corporations are making record high profits. They are colluding while you think it's a perfect competition market

that dollar would be worth 13 today and you worked a job a monkey could do and in 50 years until today the wage only went up 2 dollars an hour while the price of a home has gone up over 70%

yup my first job out of highschool in 2000 was $7 and some change, I was able to rent an apartment pay a car note all my food/utilities and attend trade school. No it was not easy but it was doable, and when I got a raise of .90 cent it really helped out. There are pizza places where im at playing $20 an hour, apparently that is no enough to do what I did 23 years ago on $7, runaway inflation makes sure poor and middle class stay that way or get worst.

@@sirlinkthefourth6755 in 2000 out of highschool I was making $7 and was able to rent an apartment pay a car note and attend trade school. Now people struggle in the same area with $20 an hour, anyway you cant really say what that $7 from 24 years ago is worth today based on official inflation as the math was changed many decades ago for inflation. Based on standard of living one can only guess I would guess it worth $25 with real buying power into account.

Sorry, pal, but blame for the rampant inflation rests squarely on DJT. Who insisted on huge tax cuts for corporations which resulted in stock buybacks that juiced the market? DJT. Who bullied the Fed into lowering interest rates at a time when they should have been raising them to cool the economy off? DJT. Who signed off on the COVID stimulus checks? DJT. Who botched the COVID response? DJT. So, I'm pretty sure you meant FDT.

100 years ago i bought three houses with my part-time summer job pressing elevator button as an elevator boy with no training. i was also the sole provider for my family of 5 with that part-time entry job. kids these days just don't understand hard work.

Government needs to stay out of most everything. Nothing makes the case for anarchy more effectively than government.

@@Lord_Volkner Bosses control government with the two parties.

@@kimobrien. It's the central bankers who control the government and the two parties ... and the big businesses, the educational system, the news media, the entertainment industry ... pretty much everything. When you can print money out of nothing, what do you? You buy everything ... and so they have.

😅well, then they'll be replaced by new restaurants.

​@@davianoinglesias5030 Possible, but what restaurant would want to open up under the current conditions in California?

I love how the words you used tell me that your being ironic

@@jaijaiwanted thx 😊

LOL😆

It’s not even what the market demands. There is no “market” anymore, rich corporations exist off government subsidies

@Michael-pi8ps if you're talking about non-profitable businesses such as the wind turbine business, I agree totally

Unicorns farting out rainbows.