The Economy
It pisses me off how all of the money in the economy is concentrated in the older generation. It is so stupid and everyone is afraid to spend their money cuz they know someone else will hog it. Why do people out of university only get paid $15/hour starting out. That should be a wage for people who work at a grocery store. Young people spend their money and, hence, it goes back into the economy. Old people save their money for retirement and won't buy a new flashlight for $3.99 at sears cuz its not on sale and we don't sell replacement bulbs.
Young people would go out to eat every night and buy a car if they could afford it. Why would you pay a 19 year old minimum wage to wash cars at your dealership when, if you paid them more, they would BUY A CAR FROM YOUR DEALERSHIP, and, over the years, probably pay the value in the car again in tuneups. Why is everything profit oriented. Someone's parent is deciding that my wage is $8.64 to start out. Someone's parent decided to lower sears starting wage to $8.05. That same parent is telling their kid to go out and get a job and not ask for money.
IS that a little hypocritical. They are skimming 50 cents from all of these other kids wages, and then tell their kid to go out and work for money. Why doesn't the parent work for money? What a novel idea: lower wages. Why are earnings down? Because you have all the frikkin money already in your bank account. Your customers don't have any money to spend cuz you have it. How did one man end up with 32 billion dollars? I have no problem with a person who has 30 billion dollars in material assetts, because that means they injected that money all back into the economy.
I'll mow your lawn for $20/hour. But you can't afford that, because your time is only worth $16/hour yourself. I thought specialization is the way of the future. If everyone specializes, they are better at their jobs. How then, is massive turnover of jobs good for business? Why is it good to pay people so little that $1 /hour more at another job will make them jump up and leave? Then you have to pay to train all of these new employees. If I got paid $15 or $16/hour full time at sears, I'd work there for like 2 years and save up some money to travel and maybe buy a car before going to university. Instead, I'm quitting in the fall and they are going to be left with only one floor employee.
Sure, stocking shelves at zellers is easy, but if you paid those people more, they would spend more money AT ZELLERS. or they would buy groceries, and the grocers would invest in some cheap clothes at zellers. It would come back around to you eventually. I just want to say, that it is cheap people who have screwed up the economy. If you are someone who wouldn't pay a little extra for some customer service or some quality or to pay someone elses wage, then you have driven your own wage down. If you need to save a few extra bucks, then work a little harder or sacrifice some of the things you don't need.
There's no free lunch. If you are getting some really awesome deal, then someone is taking a cut on their wage, someone is exporting the labour on your product costing someone a job, someone is sacrificing quality in manufacturing that product. I like quality products; I like knowing an honest, hardworking person made it; I like knowing that person earned a fair wage for it. I don't like that some rich guy at the top is making a 24 million dollar salary and is planning on quitting the company and getting a severence pay larger than some people earn in their entire lives.
Parents, give your kids more of your money that you are hogging. They will spend it and enjoy it probably more than you ever will.
Young people would go out to eat every night and buy a car if they could afford it. Why would you pay a 19 year old minimum wage to wash cars at your dealership when, if you paid them more, they would BUY A CAR FROM YOUR DEALERSHIP, and, over the years, probably pay the value in the car again in tuneups. Why is everything profit oriented. Someone's parent is deciding that my wage is $8.64 to start out. Someone's parent decided to lower sears starting wage to $8.05. That same parent is telling their kid to go out and get a job and not ask for money.
IS that a little hypocritical. They are skimming 50 cents from all of these other kids wages, and then tell their kid to go out and work for money. Why doesn't the parent work for money? What a novel idea: lower wages. Why are earnings down? Because you have all the frikkin money already in your bank account. Your customers don't have any money to spend cuz you have it. How did one man end up with 32 billion dollars? I have no problem with a person who has 30 billion dollars in material assetts, because that means they injected that money all back into the economy.
I'll mow your lawn for $20/hour. But you can't afford that, because your time is only worth $16/hour yourself. I thought specialization is the way of the future. If everyone specializes, they are better at their jobs. How then, is massive turnover of jobs good for business? Why is it good to pay people so little that $1 /hour more at another job will make them jump up and leave? Then you have to pay to train all of these new employees. If I got paid $15 or $16/hour full time at sears, I'd work there for like 2 years and save up some money to travel and maybe buy a car before going to university. Instead, I'm quitting in the fall and they are going to be left with only one floor employee.
Sure, stocking shelves at zellers is easy, but if you paid those people more, they would spend more money AT ZELLERS. or they would buy groceries, and the grocers would invest in some cheap clothes at zellers. It would come back around to you eventually. I just want to say, that it is cheap people who have screwed up the economy. If you are someone who wouldn't pay a little extra for some customer service or some quality or to pay someone elses wage, then you have driven your own wage down. If you need to save a few extra bucks, then work a little harder or sacrifice some of the things you don't need.
There's no free lunch. If you are getting some really awesome deal, then someone is taking a cut on their wage, someone is exporting the labour on your product costing someone a job, someone is sacrificing quality in manufacturing that product. I like quality products; I like knowing an honest, hardworking person made it; I like knowing that person earned a fair wage for it. I don't like that some rich guy at the top is making a 24 million dollar salary and is planning on quitting the company and getting a severence pay larger than some people earn in their entire lives.
Parents, give your kids more of your money that you are hogging. They will spend it and enjoy it probably more than you ever will.