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Should the minimum wage be raised?


who knows this is one of the biggest
debates right now in California yes sir
no raising minimum wage all this other
stuff is this a good idea what do you
think is it now some say it’s what some
say it’s bad I’m not here to debate
whether it’s good or bad because we know
fight will break out outside I’m telling
you right now right because when you
start talking about this kind of stuff I
could break out but here’s how I look at
this the way I look at the decisions
that government makes that affects you
and I I make the decision myself on how
it’s going to affect me and how I can
react to it that’s it because the
reality of it is how many votes do you
and I have influence over think about it
most people have an influence over how
many votes no it’s more than one it’s
more than one you have influence over
your spouse maybe your kids right think
about your cousin your brother and
people you work with there is some kind
of an influence isn’t there some kind of
an influence let’s just say you have
influence over 20 votes do you think
your twenty votes is really going to
favor increasing minimum wage or not
increasing minimum wage on a bigger
scale maybe not maybe not but I want you
to think about this year how do you
think corporations are preparing
themselves for a minimum wage hike today
in America because they have prepared
themselves and when I show you what
they’re doing you will be shocked on
what they’re doing today let me tell you
what they’re doing because corporations
are sin they’re saying okay no problem
you’re going to raise it but guess what
if we raise the minimum wage what do you
think happens to how corporations will
respond to it what do you think prices
go up they have no choice what else do
you think they’re going to do fire
people
layoffs what else will happen maybe
benefits will go to part-time so you’re
not going to get full-time benefits they
have to some way we react because how
many pennies are there in a dollar
there’s only a hundred pennies on the
dollar we wish there was 200 pennies but
there’s only a hundred pennies on the
dollar so there’s only so much you can
do so here’s a question here’s here’s
here’s what’s taking place today if your
job today is simply an order-taker your
job is simply
order-taker your job is being replaced
by kiosks let me explain it to you
McDonald’s I don’t know if you saw the
article with McDonald’s how many guys
have seen what McDonald’s is doing
McDonald’s all none of you guys have
raised yet or this is great
McDonald’s is completely transitioning
away from everything going to kiosks
completely if you go read the article
today in Europe they already added 7,000
kiosks and they’re coming America to do
it here’s what’s going to happen when
you’re now going to McDonald’s here’s
what’s going to happen when you’re not
go to make downs we’re going to go to
McDonald’s this is how we’re going to
what’s what’s going to us what do you
you just know just touch the screen oh
it’s just okay boom boom you do that sir
all right Stan 58 yay this is okay thank
you you know that’s what’s going to
happen to us
and we’re going to walk off by the way
it cost some fifteen hundred dollars to
set a kiosk but that was a twenty three
thousand dollar your job comb replaced
by fifteen hundred bucks that’s right
because we want to raise the minimum
wage when we go to Airlines nowadays
who’s been on a flight last 30 60 90
days what’s happened to Airlines
nowadays you know it’s all poem ticket
you leave that was a $38,000 your job
replaced by two thousand dollar machine
that’s it who knows the guy that comes
and checks our meter at our house who
knows a meter reader guy anybody knows a
meter reader guy guess what they’re
doing in California even the
government’s doing it they’re going all
electronic so they don’t need to pay guy
thirty nine thousand dollars you to come
and check our meter anymore
that’s a job being replaced by a machine
who’s been to the market lately
anybody’s been to the market lately
Ralph’s Kroger winn-dixie I’ve been all
over the country people in East Coast
they don’t have Rob so when I say Rob’s
they’re thinking I’m talking about a guy
named Ralph they’d have no clue what I’m
talking about hey what happens to wraps
nowadays to us we have what anybody’s
done a self checkout who’s done that how
many of us have done a self checkout and
we were so proud saying I bet I make a
good cashier right right you know how we
do it we go under say I bet I could do
this watch I’m gonna do this right now
look at this beep I told you to see that
pretty good at this stuff what most of
us don’t know about is this do you
realize we’ve been getting trained on
how to use kiosks for ten years this is
the most complicated kiosk no kiosk is
dis complicated if you and I can use
this we can use any kiosk any kiosk and
here’s the reality of it Ralph’s
Kroger’s winn-dixie Albertsons all of
them bonds do you realize they hired all
of us to become cashiers without paying
us a single penny in your resume you can
put cashier at all markets after now
we are all cashiers for nothing
banks kiosks everyone’s gone kiosks
everybody’s gone kiosks so someone’s
watching this and saying okay well Pat
what are you saying
how many of us go to sleep how nice to
have this fear going to sleep and I
wonder in man what if tomorrow somebody
takes over my job anybody knows that
anxiety feeling like the panic attack
and the ulcer created by that who knows
the feeling what I’m talking about some
of the baby boomers relate to what I’m
telling them more than the younger guys
because the baby boomers are worried
because a 22 year old guy coming out of
college knows more about technology can
pay them half the salary they’re paying
you so you know what’s the biggest
concern today
the biggest concern today everyone
asking me on the tour how can I become
irreplaceable from technology because
that’s the reality of it right we want
to become what irreplaceable and you and
I can sit there and say I’m
irreplaceable really to the corporation
are you really Warren Buffett was doing
a tour I was called IOUs a documentary
and one of the ladies in the back panic
because they talk about which direction
America is heading towards 83 the
Petrolia knowledge of their tax is going
to go up lights going to be expensive
one lady in the back says mr. Buffett
I’m a single mother I’m 41 I have two
kids I don’t know what I’m going to do
how do I react to times like this are
coming says ma’am ma’am ma’am just relax
it’s okay he says what’s that this is
the tip he gave everybody here’s what he
said learn a skill and become an expert
at it do you know why because we’re
always going to pay experts always a
mechanic is an expert our r.v today the
door wasn’t opening we had to pay a guy
couple hundred dollars to come and fix
the lock that’s an expert we have no
clue how to do it when we were driving
the RV the a/c wasn’t turning on we had
to find an expert to do it when you go
to a dentist that’s an expert a doctor
is an expert a plumber is an expert it
doesn’t matter I met a plumber today
that’s an expert an insurance agent is
an expert of financial guys an expert
the real estate agent is an expert
become an expert learnt a skill and
become an expert you’re irreplaceable if
you don’t machines are going to replace
us and preferably a career that has to
do with touching who touching people because that will never go away
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