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While promoting his new book, Watters talked about fast-food workers wages.One particular remarkcaught much attention.
If youre making $20 an hour to work in a fast-food restaurant, is that six figures?
Watters asked, prompting people to wonder whether he was justawfully out-of-touchor couldnt do simple math.
If youre making $20 an hour to work at a fast food restaurant, alright.
Is that six figures?
Are you making six figures?
Patrick Bet-David: No, no, $40,000 a year.
Both working at McDonalds.
OK, thats crazy.
Because that job really doesnt require much.
So, its inflating the entire, you know, labor sector and the Happy Meal.
On April 1st this year, a minimum wage law took effect inCalifornia.
From then on, the minimum salary for fast-food workers in the state is $20 an hour.
In contrast, the minimum wage for all other workers in California is $16 an hour.
Experts worry that this win for fast-food workers might have a spillover effect.
Wanting to retain their workers, other employers might have to raise their wages as well.
However, the law is only good news for some.
Non-fast-food franchise owners fear they wont be able to keep up and will face workforce shortages.
I take a stab at do right by my employees.
I pay them as much as I can.
But this law is really hitting our operations hard, he said.
That job really doesnt require much, he said.
Thats crazy, referring to the fact that a fast-food worker might be making $40,000 a year.
According to Watters, Its inflating the labor sector.
Why is it that we look down onfast-food workersthis much?
The work is certainly less than glamorous.
After all, working at a fast-food restaurant comes with many physical demands, as its a high-paced environment.
Not to mention entitled and rude customers who always think they know better.
Social media is full of instances where fast-food workers get disrespected.
In another video, a persontook advantageof the situation when a worker passed out in the kitchen.
Millions of people everyday use their services because its an affordable and speedy way to eat.
Doesnt that warrant at least some respect?
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