TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDER WARNS: FAIR WAGE FIGHT EVOKES RISE OF THE MACHINES & KIOSK REPLACEMENTS!!!

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Right we are blessed to feature a bit of analysis that every other media outlet in Kansas City is far too scared to consider.

To wit . . .

THANKS TO A KICK-ASS TKC BLOG COMMUNITY DENIZEN: HERE'S FIRST WORD OF THE RISE OF THE KIOSKS CONFRONTING KANSAS CITY FAIR WAGE FIGHTERS!!!

While TKC is no futurist, it's clear that it could soon be harder to enjoy the luxury of a value meal when questions about the whereabouts of Sarah Connor come with every order confirmation.

Tonight, here's one of the most brilliant perspectives published in Kansas City: 

The Market Always Responds

The study of economics is really the study of (or prediction of) unintended consequences.

We've recently see photographs of picket holding, disenchanted workers complaining about toiling at jobs that pay minimum wage. Only a stone-hearted person would not be moved to sympathy for their plight.

What is seldom seen is the person that made equal or greater sacrifices in building up enough savings to open his business. The same person is never seen paying nearly 50% of any his income taken home and 35 % of his enterprises profits to a partner that's only job as of recently is to criticize him for not paying what they deem a "fair-wage".

And so there you have it; the disadvantaged forced to work at jobs that pay less then what they'd like and a business owner, risking his hard earned savings, his time, and his livelihood and all the while offering employment to an ever increasingly dissatisfied worker.

And, as these two groups toil at scrapping out a living, elitist economists, like Robert Reich, most of whom have never created a job or worked outside of academia or politics, pronounce that an increase in the minimum wage will not increase unemployment and that there will be no unintended consequences.

I beg to differ.



McDonald's, the vast majority of restaurants owned by individual entrepreneurs, is testing Reich's economic theory of what happens when you force individuals to follow a grand scheme based in theory when the world they must operate in is based in reality.

The math is straight forward enough. Replace one employee and save $32,000 annually.

Here are the numbers:

$15 per hour, times 40 hours a week, and 50 working weeks a year is 30,000 annually, before any healthcare benefits. Of course, we must not forget that for each $15 dollars paid, the employee will need to 1.45% in medicare and 6.20% in Social Security. That's another $1.15 in additional wages or about $2,300 annually for a grand total of 32,300 in savings, again, before any health care expense.

You also don't have to worry about sick employees, maternity leave, and a whole host of federal regulations that's stated goal is to help employees, but in fact harm them and only produce more state dependents.



As technology costs continue to drop, KC should see more and more restaurants fixing their minimum wage problem.

I will greatly miss getting my order completely screwed up by some of Kansas City Public School "scholars" barely able to speak correct English with unmerited self-esteem, and their seemingly permanent piss poor attitude of the perpetual victim, but I guess we all must make those sacrifices for the greater good.
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