That is great, but the world needs those burger flippers or else they would not get their tasty mcDpnald's fries. There also would not be any other fast food, nothing on the shelves at your local store, there would be garbage all over the place, you would be living in a lean to, and your life would pretty much suck ass without all those people you spit on from your high and mighty throne.
you have no idea, and you justify your selfishness with blindness and ignorance. Without those people you would not be able to wipe your own ass. i mean literally as there would not be any toilet paper. The world runs on the little people, and it is great that you can completely ignore that fact and pretend your life would be no different without them, but you should pray they never figure out that without them you are nothing, and your life would suck. My guess is that you are on some level aware of this and if your anonymity was taken away and your face posted up in the local stores around your house with your selfish quotes you would freak out.
Actually, I worked at McD's for a year before I went into the military. Only job, other than the military I have had during my adult life. But guess what, I didn't like being there, so I made a choice to move on to something else. As a junior enlisted in the military, you could only wish for minimum wage. Married E-5's with children still qualify for WIC assistance.
Yes, we need those people. Ok, I don't need the ones at McD's, Subway, maybe. But while you are looking at that "little guy", you have no clue what it costs everyone else to change his pay.
For fun, lets say we did raise minimum wage to $15/hr. OK, how do we pay for it? Take away from the rich, right? What about those who already made above $15/hr but didn't get a raise?
You and others seem to think that only the "Rich" own stock in companies. Guess what, so do Retirement funds and many others. If you reduce McD's profits by 50% or more to cover that pay raise, what happens? They pay reduced dividends, which means everyone who's retirement fund has that stock now has less money going into their retirement accounts and less investments that the account can purchase for them.
Then there is the capital loss due to the drop in value of the stock because the company no longer makes as much profits or pays as much dividends, assuming they did in the first place.
Now, take a company like walmart, they have over 1 million employees. You just raised their labor rates by over $5 million dollars per hour. Sorry, but prices are going to go up, drastically.
But the poor souls who's pay was not raised by an equal amount now have to spend more on necessities and have less to spend on other things. In some cases, probably a lot, that means that just the added costs of those necessities will push them over the limit of what they can afford. There goes their house, their car and they default on all their credit cards. So to compensate, everyone has to get raises.
So to compensate, everyone, but the rich who get their money from stocks and other instruments, gets a raise also. This drives prices even higher. Not to mention that those who have to sell on the international market now see their sales crash. Oh, well, they can always hire more Chinese workers to manufacture. Bye, bye a few million jobs more. And that does not include what will be lost due to increased automation.
Now, the Rich. Oh, they loose a bit. Say their worth goes down with the stock and they get less dividends. Might hurt a few, but probably not many. But, since they make less, they also pay less in actual taxes. So a Billionaire might loose $500 million. He still has $500 million. But what he doesn't do is invest until the market changes. Less investment equals less jobs. How many of them do you think keep all their money laying around in bank accounts? Most of it is in investments and in capital holdings. If someone owns 1 million shares in walmart and dividends drop from $3 dollars a share to $1 dollar a share, that person still makes $1 million for the year. Might hurt him a little, but not much. He can also probably afford to wait it out until the market recovers. But what does it hurt for those 10,000 plus in a fund that owns 1 million shares? Hurts them a lot. How many are near retirement age and just saw their retirement do a Enron on them?