What's your honest reaction to the idea of $15/hr fast food jobs?

You're pretty much 100% wrong with just about everything you said, and objectively.

Society was created in order to protect and serve the group as a whole. We entered into social contracts because the concepts of competing for resources and living in fear detracted from our overall livelihood. We needed protection from these very things.

If you spent 1 hour a year working, and cure cancer, you don't deserve anything. You haven't actually contributed anything of value to a society. Cancer is not something that is preventing humanity from reaching the next plateau on the ladder of society. At least, you can't argue that objectively.

Life is not results based. The result is death. If we evaluated lives based on results, we'd have ritual suicides. CEO's make millions of dollars because they can, not because they work harder. I'm not saying they do or don't, but they don't make money due to their work input. To argue that is inane. If you put the fast-food guy in the CEO's place and let him make decisions, he would probably be just as successful in the short term, because CEO's don't make that many applicable decisions all the time. CEO's general duties have little to do with running the company, that is left to COO and CFO and their staff.

CEO's are not responsible for creating jobs, I do not know where you get that information. Supply and demand are the only things that generate jobs, with the exception of possibly one alternate: bureaucracy (the actual term, not the stupid term).

You, along with a lot of other people who don't understand basic economics, think that minimum wage is some sort of welfare devil. It's really not. More and more, universal living wages will become mandatory, simply because there aren't really that many jobs left. We can automate most things if we really wanted to, but choose not to because we think work is somehow necessary.

If we could tell everyone, you know what? No more working. We're done. No more jobs, we've automated everything. Well, if we could say that, we would. Of course that won't happen, but we will get awfully close. And I mean AWFULLY close.

In the future, jobs won't be stalking shelves and making burgers, those will all be automated. You know what won't be? Technician jobs, maintenance jobs, research jobs, etc. In other words, manufacturing will become obsolete at one point. Not soon, but soonish. We could probably be there in a century or two, but we will stretch it out to five.

The only jobs that will be left are service and research, and ironically the arts. So when the greatest minds of the world are bettering society, and everyone is just living in it with no means to produce "value," what then? We let them die?

No, we give them an allowance, and those who are still creating can get a little more.

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