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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on October 26, 2015, 10:07:27 PM
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Well gees. Look here! Raising the minimum wage! What a stupid idea! It is in San Fransicko! :mental:
With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7288223
Newsjock (11,636 posts)
With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees [View all]
Source: Mission Local
While the boom in San Francisco has helped boost business, shops and restaurants are finding that they have no one to make the sales. “We’re desperate,†said Jefferson McCarley, the owner of Mission Bicycle.
... “It’s because the working class of San Francisco is disappearing,†said Chewy Marzolo, who manages Escape From New York pizza on 22nd Street. Despite the recent minimum wage hike, he said, the city is too expensive. “Even with that jump, which is huge… People can’t afford to work for it.â€
... At Harrington Galleries, a furniture store on Valencia Street that has been in business for more than 40 years, finding workers is a struggle. ... Owner-manager Fiona O’Connor needs a part-time manager with some experience in interior design, who would start at around $16 an hour. After a month, she still hasn’t found anyone.
... “Honestly, to survive in San Francisco on $15, $16, $17 is not easy,†McCarley acknowledged. Which, he and others observed, is simply resulting in driving people out of the city and attracting more commuter workers.
Read more: http://missionlocal.org/2015/10/sf-businesses-finds-employees-are-scarce/
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hatrack (38,517 posts)
2. Short version: "We can't find good workers at shit wages! Waaaahhhh!!!"
More like,
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BigDemVoter (1,113 posts)
4. I live in Berkeley, and it's ridiculous over here too.
I was looking at one-BR apartments in SF today--the "small" ones were listed at $3000 plus. . . . . Crazy. I wonder how long the economy can support this, as EVERYTHING has a limit. . . .
If the San Francisco Bay Area had less restrictive land use regulations, they would not be in that state they are in. :mental:
geek tragedy (51,517 posts)
7. San Francisco is a gated community.
The solution is to really raise taxes on higher income residents.
San Francisco is a gated community in a sense. And they to will leave San Francisco as it already has high taxes.
Recursion (42,028 posts)
19. Build. Taller. Buildings.
There's not enough housing to house the number of people who want to live in San Francisco. So they need to build more places for people to live.
This isn't rocket science.
NIMBYism runs rampant in San Francisco, like in many liberal cities.
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Sucks to live with limousine liberals and their paid under the table,cheap illegals.
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Recursion (42,028 posts)
19. Build. Taller. Buildings.
There's not enough housing to house the number of people who want to live in San Francisco. So they need to build more places for people to live.
This isn't rocket science.
I know the one place I would want to move into is a tall building in an city known for earthquakes and fires. ::)
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As The Exalted Feathered One pointed out, when government increases the cost of building and maintaining housing and makes it less remunerative - through land use restrictions, take-aways, rent "control", and regulations - government artificially makes housing more scarce than it would be otherwise. Increased scarcity causes increased prices for desired commodities.
As for the government-mandated wage rate increases, did government and advocates expect no consequences? Business owners don't pull money out of their rectums! In response, businesses cut hours, cut staffing, and increase prices (what was that nonsense about affordability?).
In yet another unintended (?) consequence, SF Bay Area freeway-building and -expansion has been pretty minimal since Reagan was governor. Consequently, commuting in and out of SF is nightmarish (and BART is pretty packed in commute hours; CalTrain probably is as well). So businesses who think they're going to find lots of low-wage workers willing to commute from ?? (the Peninsula, Marin, East Bay, and Silicon Valley aren't exactly low-cost housing havens!) are hallucinatory.
Welcome to Government Regulated Paradise!
And now, I need to commute to work, half way up the Peninsula!
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You mean a bunch of libs have to live with the consequences of their failed policies?
The heart bleeds.
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