"Minimum wage jobs are meant for teens"

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I see this argument a lot when talking about increasing minimum wage - that minimum wage jobs are designed for low-skill workers, usually teens/high school students who just need a few bucks to buy a cheeseburger and see a movie.

Well, problem is that there are still tons of people that fill these positions that are older adults, so kids can't take their spot. From personal experience, Choo Choo [I shit you not] is an old Chinese [?] lady who has been working at the Carl's Jr by my house, delivering dine-in orders to your table, since I was 12. I'm coming up on 30. She should have moved up and out by now, but instead has been occupying a spot for over a decade that more than a few rounds of teens could have used for job experience to speak of on an otherwise-empty resume

Is there any solution to this problem?


 
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Try getting a job in southern California before you're 18.
Guess what? It's nearly impossible, even if you have things like volunteering experience.

Teens aren't the majority of minimum wage jobs anymore.


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Maybe she's wanted to stay there all that time? Maybe she has inheritance or something? Unless you can give me her bank statement, I don't think this Choo-choo can be used as a proper example.

However, what do you suggest? Price floors will always cause an increase in supply. Minimum wage will either literally result in jobs being lost or slow the growth of the labour market. I don't know what the situation is like in the U.S., but over here the difference between minimum wage and "living wage" is almost exactly what the government taxes them.

I do know, for the U.S., that the most effective forms of poverty reduction are transfers and subsidies like the E.I.T.C., which'd be a far better model than simply raising the minimum wage like a Neanderthal with a club.


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Blame business that outsource jobs which takes away opportunities for Choo-Choo to have a higher wage and for some teen to take her spot

Either way, inflation is the current problem. Raising minimum wage will do nothing except increasing the prices of goods, making the increase of wages invalid to be supportive.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Blame business that outsource jobs which takes away opportunities for Choo-Choo to have a higher wage and for some teen to take her spot
Except I've explained to you time and time again that effective allocation of labour is good because it makes everybody better off.


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Try getting a job in southern California before you're 18.
Guess what? It's nearly impossible, even if you have things like volunteering experience.

Teens aren't the majority of minimum wage jobs anymore.
Not just Cali, the UK (especially NI) is pretty bad for it. Big companies like Tescos have been recruiting older people who've lost their jobs due to the recession over first time workers.

Try getting a job without experience here, you need experience to get the experience for fucks sake. It's a joke.


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Except I've explained to you time and time again that effective allocation of labour is good because it makes everybody better off.

Fucking lol my sides

Let's see if you can comprehend this: 1000 people make money and live great. Boss guy want more money so he outsource 1000 jobs. 1000 people with jobs have no more jobs. 1000 people now poor


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Fucking lol my sides

Let's see if you can comprehend this: 1000 people make money and live great. Boss guy want more money so he outsource 1000 jobs. 1000 people with jobs have no more jobs. 1000 people now poor
The British economy loses about 3 million jobs a year.

And not everybody is unemployed and dying in the streets because jobs have either timed out or been outsourced. Y'know, it's almost like labour markets change and the pool of jobs is neither static nor pre-determined.

Phwoar! Imagine that; the labour market not being a zero-sum game! If there were only a way to make that true!

Oh wait, only somebody with very little understanding of economics could think it isn't true in the first fucking place.


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I have been trying to get a job all year long, and even with two years of experience as a mechanic, I could still not get one. I finally said fuck it and am going to college next year.
Basically what I'm doing, despite experience as a bar person I can't find a job here, either I don't have the experience in the type of bar they are hiring or I'm a few months short of what they're looking for (yes they take that into account ffs).

So I'm still applying for jobs but while I wait I'm thinking of volunteering at a charity shop and applying for a course with my cousin in Feb. Still I'd love to be back behind the bar.


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The British economy loses about 3 million jobs a year.

And not everybody is unemployed and dying in the streets because jobs have either timed out or been outsourced. Y'know, it's almost like labour markets change and the pool of jobs is neither static nor pre-determined.

Phwoar! Imagine that; the labour market not being a zero-sum game! If there were only a way to make that true!

Oh wait, only somebody with very little understanding of economics could think it isn't true in the first fucking place.
So you're telling me all 3 million jobs have been replaced? I seriously doubt that. Those that still don't have jobs is primarily due to the outsourcing of jobs, especially if a person's field of work has always been manufacturing, call offices, or any other job that is outsourced. If a position opens up in sales or food services, do you seriously expect somebody with a history of manufacturing to get any position when somebody else who has sales experience applies? Any employer will take an experienced person on the field over somebody who has no idea what they're doing

This will continue happening, leaving people poor, out of work, and a burden towards others since they will have to rely on the welfare system


 
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So you're telling me all 3 million jobs have been replaced? I seriously doubt that. Those that still don't have jobs is primarily due to the outsourcing of jobs, especially if a person's field of work has always been manufacturing, call offices, or any other job that is outsourced. If a position opens up in sales or food services, do you seriously expect somebody with a history of manufacturing to get any position when somebody else who has sales experience applies? Any employer will take an experienced person on the field over somebody who has no idea what they're doing

This will continue happening, leaving people poor, out of work, and a burden towards others since they will have to rely on the welfare system
Not exactly three million jobs will be created, but it maintains an equilibrium around that point with maybe a few hundred either side. Fact of the matter is that somebody losing their job - especially in the name of consumer surplus - isn't necessarily bad and can even be good.

If every Englishman found himself unemployed tomorrow because something absolutely incomprehensible happened to the job market, that wouldn't be good, because the labour is idle. Outsourcing usually just re-allocates labour, which is the good sort of unemployment.


 
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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
Not just Cali, the UK (especially NI) is pretty bad for it. Big companies like Tescos have been recruiting older people who've lost their jobs due to the recession over first time workers.

Try getting a job without experience here, you need experience to get the experience for fucks sake. It's a joke.
Just speaking from experience. It took me a year and a half to find a basic retail job after I turned 18. I would spend entire days collecting applications and then bringing them back. When I did finally get a job, I was constantly treated like I was disposable and easily fired because the moment a "Help Wanted" sign goes up anywhere, dozens of people flock to apply.

And yeah you're fucked if you don't have any paid work experience here. Volunteer work for the most part means jack shit. 90% of the time your application is ignored for anyone who has any kind of paid experience, no matter how much crappier they might be. In 3 different interviews that's why the position was given to someone else, even in the event that the manager thought I was better.
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We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty
and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.."
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
Am I the only one that didn't have trouble finding a job when I was a teenager? I got a job right when I turned 16. I've actually had 5 different jobs since then. Maybe it's because I live in a small town, I don't really know.
It's a regional issue.


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Am I the only one that didn't have trouble finding a job when I was a teenager? I got a job right when I turned 16. I've actually had 5 different jobs since then. Maybe it's because I live in a small town, I don't really know.

Yeah, mostly a regional issue.  Though it did take me a year and a half to get a job in my tiny town at fucking Wal-Mart.  Our unemployment's been down the past couple of years now though.