Dominoes - Pay a little more

[MyUserName]

If the price of Pizzas rose to pay more for the staff would that mean you would eat less of them?

I do not eat that much of the staff anyway but if they increased the price of pizza I would probably eat more, if anything.

[Ticktock]

I do not eat that much of the staff anyway

No, that's ZG's job.

[DodgyAgent]

no - they would just get a job instead. And when you remove minimum wage there will be plenty of jobs, and the economy, left free enough to do so, would boom. Overall productivity is MUCH higher (especially when you consider the fact that most people starting on the low end of the pay scale will move up it in time, whereas layabout benefit receivers, or those genuinely priced out of the market by minimum wages enforced by government violence, are much less likely to progress very far), prices fall, tax revenue by volume increases, so individual tax rates fall.

And if the survival of the poorest is really a concern, then removing VAT (more government meddling breaking the economy) would be a good place to start. Of all the taxes, VAT 'unfairly' affects the poorest the most. Currently we are ruining quality of life of the poorest with VAT, and then we 'help' them with minimum wage laws which price half of them out of the market, and and shrink the market such that the other half are fighting for too few jobs.

Spot on well said Atw

[d000hg]

I thought essentials and many foodstuffs were VAT-exempt?

[AtW]

I thought essentials and many foodstuffs were VAT-exempt?

Not take aways...

[d000hg]

If you're on the edge of starvation you wouldn't be able to afford a takeaway.

[MyUserName]

If you can't afford a takeaway then you're on the edge of starvation.

FTFY

[SpontaneousOrder]

The trouble is that almost EVERYTHING pays min wage nowadays. I believe that while it has pulled those at the bottom up, it has also pulled those who might once have earned more than min wage down.

In an article in the Times at the weekend, it was said that there are more and more middle-aged workers relying on "burger flipping" jobs, whereas that used to be the realm of the student trying to earn some beer money. i.e. these new minimum wagers are trying to feed their families on this.

The salient point to recognise here is that something is broken - Something 'else'. i.e. Dominos paying low wages isn't the problem here - the problem is that half of the older guys at dominos should be doing something else by now.

How come they are still at Dominos? There are lots of reasons, mainly beyond their own control. But the issue certainly isn't low wages - otherwise why not set th eminimum wage to £100 an hour?

[AtW]

the problem is that half of the older guys at dominos should be doing something else by now.

You mean anything that involves ordering overpriced pizza rather than making it?

[d000hg]

Why on earth shouldn't older people be doing low-end work? You see old waitresses and old cleaners every day, and old supermarket checkout staff, etc.