No foolin’, as of today April 1, 2024, fast food workers in the ‘Peoples Republik of Kalifornia’ will be paid a minimum wage of $20.00per hour. This move also comes with yet another “council” of unelected bureaucrats:

“Gov Newsome announced his seven appointees to the council on March 1, including chairperson Nicholas Hardeman, chief of staff to former Senate leader Toni Atkins, and a mix of franchisees and others. Legislative leaders picked the final two members, both union leaders.” (From the Cal Matters website.)

And this little gem from the same site:

“It’s also a five-year experiment in how to regulate businesses in general across California — by returning to a model from the past.  For most of the 20th century, the state’s now-dormant Industrial Welfare Commission — a similar, but more powerful council with labor and business representatives — convened wage boards specific to certain industries. The boards took testimony from workers and employers and wrote work standards in those industries.”

As to fooling us, glean what you will from this information, but I knew the first time I heard about the edict from on high that the end game was not about improving lives. This is about unionization through the politics of envy. As Kalifornia goes, so goes the nation, and the Coastal Elites believe centralization of power is the necessary solution to their quest to engineer our lives from cradle to grave. Remember, when Biden took the highest office in the land, Newsome said out loud, in effect, “we now have a foothold in Washington DC.” As just one example, the Biden administration recently initiated a national policy move similar to Kalifornias’ Assembly Bill (AB-5)

To that end, these same elitist despots despise fast food, have always been hostile to independent franchisees of any kind, (owners were threatened by worse, so acquiesced to the current council model without much fight) plus they will be able to count on the “what about us” effect (envy) generated in other service industries. That phenomenon will bolster state controlled unionization efforts, concurrent with price increases. Naturally price increases typically reduce consumer cash tipping, which of course makes it easier for the tax agents to follow the money.

Never mind that all minimum wage laws are immoral; how dare any entity decide the value of my labor, or how I might negotiate for the right to ply my efforts in voluntary agreements with others. And how dare any citizen advocate for state intrusion into such matters in the first place? See oft mentioned envy.

DL

 

Today I commit to doing something I love, I will write. Funny, one would think doing something we love would not take much effort, but any wordsmith will tell you writing is work, quality writing is hard work.

As to love, I used to believe one shouldn’t have to work at it if it is real love. As it happened, time, experience, and periods of emptiness have shown how misguided my thinking was. Love takes practice, and like all rewarding endeavors, working hard at it reveals riches beyond the grasp of emotionalism or laziness.