Why you have to get great
FROM THE DESK OF GRANT CARDONE: On Tuesday of this week it was the anniversary of the “Fight for $15 Campaign”, which is an effort to get minimum wage up to $15 in America. A crowd of 350 people gathered around a McDonald’s in New York where 25 protesters got themselves arrested. Dozens more were arrested across the US as thousands demonstrated in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, and Minneapolis as they disrupted traffic and service at some of the biggest airports in the country.
Sadly, none of these people realize that…
Raising the minimum wage is not a solution to their problem.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and there are currently 29 states with a minimum wage higher than that. Several cities have now put in legislation that will increase their minimum wage to $15 over the next few years, including San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. On July 1, 2018, San Francisco will be the first official place to reach $15 an hour. Arizona, Colorado, and Maine will also incrementally increase their minimum wages to $12 an hour by 2020.
Look, the first thing you get when you raise minimum wage is more people on minimum wage. If you want a whole country on minimum wage just raise it to $20. Why don’t we go to $30, what does it matter? Prices will skyrocket. That hamburger you eat, that milkshake you get at Wendy’s, that clean salad you ordered over at Taco Bell where the pissed off guy making $8 licks the shells—all those things will get much more expensive when you raise the price of the hourly person.
Why you have to get great
The truth is minimum wage is not a solution to anybody’s problem. The only solution to a person’s problem is their own productivity. It’s their creativity and their ability to separate themselves in the marketplace. Be so great that nobody would want to pay them a minimum wage. No government, no congress, no senate, and no president can help you if you’re on minimum wage. Even at $15 you need more money. You folks on minimum wage—I know how tough it is. Look, I worked at McDonalds and I didn’t deliver. I wasn’t worth the $7 bucks they paid me or I guess it was $3 back then. Because I wasn’t great, they fired me. They replaced me with someone else willing to work for $3 who would hustle…
