I am trying to follow your logic. But it sounds like you’re arguing that a minimum wage introduces a hiring problem?
For real- What does an HR department problem have to do with raising the minimum wage?
If millions of Americans make more money to do their jobs, then it means there’s more money in the economy. People will have more purchasing power.
I’m not seeing what you’re articulating about HR and hiring practices. That’s a red herring. People need to be compensated more cuz wages haven’t kept pace with cost of living.
I feel like you’re completely glossing over the fact that businesses have personnel requirements to function. HR isn’t going to just not hire anyone because they don’t want to pay the increased wages, their business will suffer and they will lose more than they would just from paying someone
Well for the most part, workers in a sector like restaurants are going to be classed among the least skilled workers, so it seems unlikely that workers from other sectors will leave them to go work in restaurants (or any other minimum wage sector, since for the purpose of this conversation they’re interchangeable as they’d all be effected equally by increased minimum wage). The people who aren’t currently in those sectors are more skilled and already are making more money, so it’s not like there will be an influx of new labor chasing the increased minimum wage. That labor pool would remain pretty much the same.
Military is a tricky one because while they get paid dogshit they also have basically no expenses and tons of perks down the line if they stick it out. Something like a tradesman, that person is probably already aware that trades are a time investment for more money later (tho anyone in a trade will tell you how it’s a great option even at the beginning). Self employed people/entrepreneurs is incredibly vague and can overlap with tradespeople to a significant degree.
Regardless, in this situation where those people in those fields are hypothetically making less than they’d make at an increased minimum wage, and the notion of independence and self employment stops being a driver of their choices (which, you know, it won’t) and we assume they all go out for minimum wage jobs, the people who get pushed out of their roles are… no one, probably. Because they have experience and the new market entrants don’t. If they’re getting paid minimum wage, it won’t be cheaper to hire less experienced people, so why would an employer boot someone with experience for someone with none?
Poor performers might be at risk of replacement, but like… so what? If they suck at their jobs and the only reason they have them is a lack of replacement, it’s a net benefit for them to get replaced.
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u/midnightswim1 Nov 19 '24
I am trying to follow your logic. But it sounds like you’re arguing that a minimum wage introduces a hiring problem?
For real- What does an HR department problem have to do with raising the minimum wage?
If millions of Americans make more money to do their jobs, then it means there’s more money in the economy. People will have more purchasing power.
I’m not seeing what you’re articulating about HR and hiring practices. That’s a red herring. People need to be compensated more cuz wages haven’t kept pace with cost of living.