Dudes,
A small taste of what is to come if leftists get their grubby protrusions on the levers of power in the U.K.- in this case the decision by McDonald's ™ , Weatherspoon and TFI Friday workers striking - with Labour's full blessing and my with my favourite leftist Owen Jones rejoicing on how young people are " rewriting capitalism" - for a £10 per hour wage.
What ? What? If you get that then YOU can explain why prices in relatively cheap fast food outlets, with thin margins, increase or why a business will go under because of labour costs . Then you won't have any money. This is typical socialism in that it is a given people can get paid a certain wage without the marketplace deciding that wage.
Fuck me!
When I first started in the restaurant business I was on £2 an hour for another burger chain and worked for free to get experience in a curry restaurant, alongside other similar shift jobs to make ends meet, including the co op (£2.50) and a logistics company (£3.50) (yes that's PLURAL!). I was paid little, but was heavily invested in by doing several NVQ's and worked my butt off .
I was bought up by my uncle and grandparents. They were the very essence of Webers 'Protestant work ethic ' , despite my uncle being Anglo Catholic and my grandparents Iraqi Jewish refugees.
I'm all in favour of a decent wage and to my mind it is linked to the productive quality of the person employed. I'm happy to pay a pot washer £8 an hour, providing they are productive on the line. I look after my people , but the whole idea of striking is just champagne socialist leaders stoking problems for their own madcap ideological ends.
But regardless of all of that. I was more or less bought up on -
WORK HARD, PLAY HARD AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT FUCK OFF!
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