Learning To Work vs. Learning To Take
Never understood the minimum wage argument. If you don’t make enough money at a particular job, do something else. Easy squeezy.
Young people who begin by working at McDonald’s seldom spend their careers at McDonald’s. Just in the course of one year, McDonald’s has more than a 100 percent turnover rate. What those who leave take with them is not only such basic experience as showing up for work regularly and on time, cooperating with others, and knowing how to conduct themselves in a business environment, but also a track record that enables them to move on to other and very different occupations at progressively higher levels in the years ahead. The experience and the track record from McDonald’s are likely to be more valuable in the long run than the modest paychecks they earned serving hamburgers.
Put differently, whatever reduces opportunities for gainful employment for people with little or no experience has the effect of costing both them and the society far more than the lost jobs which have been dismissed as “menial” or as paying only “chump change.”—Thomas Sowell, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
Who would you rather have serving you?
4 thoughts on “Learning To Work vs. Learning To Take”
Fuck McDonalds, In-N-Out is waaaay better! It’s just too bad we don’t have ’em here in sChitcago…!
Jon-Agreed on the In-n-Out, just got them in my area. Yummy. But still not a career choice to work there.
Long term burger flippers are just one step above welfare parasites.
Both groups believe they are worth far more than they’re getting and Obama is using them to fill the ranks of Liberal, Democrat voters by pandering to their inane demands.
Toejam – Politicians never worked these menial positions, they have no idea how long people stay at McDonald’s. Thats how out of touch they are.