Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast-food workers and a fast-food regulatory council which has the authority to raise the industry’s minimum wage annually. But between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023.
    • iced quinn@blob.cat
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      7 months ago

      @teratology @wintermute_oregon @realcaseyrollins depends where in europe and what you are doing.

      importing a Deluge from new zealand had an import duty of 0$ because the USA doesn’t really charge other colonials import tax. the same device to a German musician held something like a 300$ overhead to the government.

      in my recent reading about cinema cameras, someone was charged around 170$USD to have their camera sent back to black magic for servicing. the brits and euros it was more like 400$.

      there are a lot of import/export fees and license buggery that just doesn’t exist in the USA.

      but my original point was you just have these wealthy or scholarship/loan people that want cheap coffee at school but then someone tells them to be mad about what the poors make, and i don’t think it actually occurs to them that paying the barista 20$ an hour means the cost of their coffee is going to go up.

      • NeuromancerOPM
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        7 months ago

        don’t think it actually occurs to them that paying the barista 20$ an hour means the cost of their coffee is going to go up

        Agreed. As you can see here when person thought the franchisee should just take less profit when it’s unprofitable. He seemed to think the franchisee was making 2000x the employee when it’s close to 4-5x but also carries all the liability.

        Dining in general is low margin. Wages are a large part of that cost. I’m not against raising wages but people need to realize cost will go up, jobs will be lost and you’ll get less service.