The twenty dollar Big Mac

[the_tyrant]

Is an hour of work by the guy flipping burgers at Macdonalds worth any more than minimum wage? Nope, burger flipping is the classic minimum wage job.

Can you support a familly by working as a burger flipper? Nope, you will need more than that.


The debate can go on for hours, which is why i think August here has the right idea:

I think the point is that McDonalds type jobs are poor replacements for the high paying manufacturing jobs that have gone overseas.

When I was a youngster you either went to college (if you could afford it and had the smarts for it) or you went down to the local factory and applied for a job that you could hold onto for your entire working life without having to learn all that much or really compete to get. One that paid enough to put your kids through college. Perfect for the HS graduate with no great passion for a particular line of work.

But those days are gone now and all that is left for those folks, and there are many, many of them, is low paying service sector jobs that don't offer a living wage.

But lets be honest here, those jobs are never coming back, not when I can find a university grad, company man, who is willing to work for 3$/hour, who is very competant, and takes pride in his work in Asia.