{"id":295,"date":"2014-09-04T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/at-15hr-what-happens-to-the-wal-mart-greeter.html"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:21:20","slug":"at-15hr-what-happens-to-the-wal-mart-greeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/at-15hr-what-happens-to-the-wal-mart-greeter.html","title":{"rendered":"At $15\/hr, what happens to the Wal-Mart greeter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Just a quick thought for the night: <\/p>\n

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The pro-high-minimum wage line is generally that workers who are paid higher wages are more productive. \u00a0The logic is, of course, faulty, because they\u2019re looking at employers who choose to pay their employees above-minimum wages for what are, in terms of the work required, unskilled jobs, to get more-productive workers, and extrapolating to a situation in which all employers are required to pay this wage as a baseline.<\/div>\n
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But let\u2019s take it as a given that this will be the case \u2014 because employers will demand higher productivity from their workers, to produce the same output with fewer workers, or to exceed that threshold above which a human worker is still worth more than automation. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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What happens to those workers who simply can\u2019t \u201cstep up\u201d and meet these heightened expectations?<\/div>\n
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Teenagers, for one, and young adults who just don\u2019t have those basic work-ethic type of skills, could probably be helped by a sub-minimum \u201ctraining\u201d wage. \u00a0Australia, that high-minimum-wage paradise, has exactly this: \u00a0a much lower minimum for teens (pardon my not looking this up right now). \u00a0<\/div>\n
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The disabled, of course, are accomodated, at various \u201csheltered workshop\u201d places, by measuring their relative productivity compared to the non-disabled. \u00a0Perhaps ordinary workplaces hiring the disabled, such as grocery stores, might push to be able to pay similar sub-minimum wages.<\/div>\n
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And the elderly, who work at non-strenuous jobs to supplement their Social Security, who ask if I\u2019d like a sales circular and Meijer\u2019s, for instance? \u00a0Will they find these sorts of jobs closed to them? \u00a0Or will they also need a special category of subminimum wage?<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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