Yes, it absolutely does matter about the source of calories. Is the rise in Type II diabetes from people eating too much whole foods or the cheaply made Franken-foods of the corporate food giants? If 2 people ate the same amount of calories and exercised the same but 1 ate whole foods and the other ate the junk foods of the food giants who would be more healthy and weigh less? Your ignorance on diet is monumental. I feel sorry for your kids, if you have any. Diet is more important than exercise, in terms of being fat or healthy.
Not sure your point is proven when the population is more sick than ever. What about quality of life vs. simple longevity? If longevity of modern life is even being achieved any longer.
WTF are you even talking about here? Did you just slam so many talking points in with terms you loosely know the meaning to on purpose to try and make a point, or is it just babble? Another non-point.
Reading over your post is laughable, your ignorance is on full display.
We are dealing with a similar issue now. Md has been phasing in a new minimum wage of $10.10 over the past 2 or 3 years. It costs use about $3M just to fulfill the law amd another $2M-$3M for what we call compression, which is bumping people up to account for years of service and position.
I sat in an hour and a half meeting earlier this year discussing how we were going to deal with the additional costs year over year goong forward and we are not a small company.
Let me ask you, what is the magical number a company should pay it’s employees?
Mine is a wage that employees no longer need government assistance to survive.
Lastly and most importantly, does someone need to lose their job or have hours cut for others to get a raise?
What is more important the net loss or net gain of employment?
Ever? Really?? More sick than during epidemics like the Black Death or the Spanish Flu or Smallpox?
The quality of life in the United States today is better in pretty much every way compared to as little as 100 years ago. As evidenced by Beans’ point that one of the main issues with poor people is that they are too fat. Throughout history poor people have starved to death.
The real issue is that the type of job that pays the minimum wage is not the type of job a person will ever be able to live on. The government could mandate a $50,000 minimum wage and this would still be true.
Take the CEOs pay and divide it by the number of employees making the minimum. Hell, use 90,000:
Congrats, you got them a $0.04/hour raise
Edit: That’s his entire comp package from what I gather too. His base salary is like $1.3M.
You’re conflating “health” with “being fat” in order to try and make a point that just proves I’m right in the end anyway.
I said FAT. You keep talking about “HEALTH”.
That said:
Assuming metabolic rates and hereditary issues were they same?
They would weigh the same.
As for health, assuming all else being equal, it really depends on the “junk foods”. If the Junk food person was getting their calories from 80% sugar, then whole foods would obviously be “healthier”… Assuming the “whole foods” weren’t also 80% sugar.
But then again, for the 400th time, I said “being FAT” you immeasurably dense fuck.
Immeasurably better now than even 100 years ago, let alone 2, 3 or 700.
Next time you see your shrink, have them explain projection to you.
(lol, had to edit in a very important part… Sorry aboot that.)
There isn’t a magical number. This is what “minimum wage” and “living wage” people don’t and will never understand. There are way too many variables, even at just the state level, for a standard minimum wage.
Uhuh, sounds great. Why don’t you try and flesh this out and see how the math works. What happens to the price of goods, employment rates, purchasing power, etc…
The world isn’t black and white. Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.
You just gave me an article from MSNBC dated from 2012 and another one dated from 2008 and it was ONE incident. How can I take this seriously? The first link I sent you stated they raised their wages considerably since then.
Situation be damned huh? Work hard and move up in the company if you want more money!..It’s not a company’s job to fully provide for your family…
If people have to lose their jobs because others demand to make more, that is a problem.
Oh boy… Say CEO A makes 10 million dollars and has 1 million employees. Now lets lower CEO A’s salary to exactly $0 and spread his wealth across all of his employees. You just gave every employee a raise of $10 for the year!! Lets stop pretending CEO salaries hurt the workers…
That was my reply to him because he seems to think it’s Walmarts job to provide somebody enough to not be on government assistance no matter their circumstances…
