{"id":66706,"date":"2018-05-01T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66706"},"modified":"2018-04-30T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T03:35:27","slug":"math-isnt-their-strong-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66706","title":{"rendered":"Math Isn&#8217;t Their Strong Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">They pay burger flippers nearly $12 per hour now.\u00a0 The workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/workers-form-first-fast-food-union-in-us\/ar-AAwyS9v?ocid=spartandhp\">went union for a fair wage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Bad news, people.\u00a0 The fair wage for someone whose only marketable skill is flipping burgers is $10.\u00a0 They were overpaying to keep the union out.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ll agree to raise wages but that will force layoffs to balance the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">There will be one guy working for $100 an hour but the rest of you will be replaced by a burger-flipping machine.\u00a0 I predict bankruptcy in three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The story is from Portland &#8211; which seems to believe, these days, that if you vote for something hard enough, you&#8217;re enttitled to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: They pay burger flippers nearly $12 per hour now.\u00a0 The workers went union for a fair wage. Bad news, people.\u00a0 The fair wage for someone whose only marketable skill is flipping burgers is $10.\u00a0 They were overpaying to keep the union out.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ll agree to raise wages but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66707,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706\/revisions\/66707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}