Jump to content

Bozo_Casanova

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    14224
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    6

Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova

  1. Sigh. Cory Pullig was pretty good, Stephen McGee was a very good college QB who was 4th round pick and a backup in the NFL for 4 years, and Ryan Tannehill was a 1st rounder and a special talent. I put Quinn in the McGee bucket. everyone happy?
  2. I know what I’m talking about and Quinn is a Stephen McGee on a special scale of Corey Pullig to Ryan Tannehill.
  3. Well don’t waste the good stuff on him first.
  4. Another good coffee locally is Talisman - it’s a small operation that grows their beans on the family farm in Nicaragua, ships them here, and the son and his wife roasts them locally and sells coffee at their shop on Manor, and at a number of farmers markets.
  5. The last 48 hours on twitter, a summary:
  6. Killed a bottle of Rock Hill Farms on Wednesday night with cousin and brothers in law.
  7. I also forgot about Curra’s coffee. Will go get a bag in Hyde Park today.
  8. Super easy: 1.5 cups of quick grits 6 cups water 1.5 tsp salt 1 pound grated sharp cheddar a little blue cheese 3-4oz 2 tsp old bay 1 tsp Worcestershire 4 eggs, beat to hell 2 4oz cans of green chiles 2/3 a bag of frozen corn kernels (I prefer the roasted corn kernels if you can find it) Smoked paprika preheat oven to 350, and grease up a 3 qt (9x13) casserole with butter 1) cook your grits in the water on the stove with salt until thick. Turn off the heat. 2) add the butter and cheese stir until melted into the grits. Stir in the Old Bay and Worcestershire sauce. 3) stir in the green chiles 4) stir in the corn 5) fold in the eggs, mixing them in completely but gently Pour into the baking dish, bake uncovered for an hour, sprinkle with smoked paprika.
  9. I’m not conflating it. I’m saying most restaurants just aren’t paying tipped workers a base wage of $2.31. Even, apparently, in Corpus. As @Incredulity points out, the minimum wage is mostly irrelevant.
  10. Vivek Ramaswamy inspired me to watch Whiplash and the JK Simmons character reminds me the best wrestling coach I ever had. I learned a lot and what I learned eventually made me a pretty good coach and boss and a whole lot of other good things, but that man ruined the sport for me.
  11. Also, what is a “retired artist?”
  12. Most of them. It works like this: my 15 year old kid gets a job in a restaurant in Austin like 6 years ago (it’s more now, stay with me). Her “wage” is $5/hr, because NOBODY ACTUALLY MAKES MINIMUM WAGE in customer facing roles or jobs that require training in Texas, but they guarantee that she will make 17.50/hr net of tips and make up whatever tips don’t cover. Of course for grown-up staff those numbers are much higher, like $12&$20 or $25 straight. in other words, you’re making a distinction without a difference. It might be $2.31, but even when it is, it’s not, and nobody even offers it because it’s a bad look and restaurants who try it can’t stay open. Um, no. Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep line cooks in a city in Texas? They aren’t often getting much or any of the tip out but they aren’t making the minimum wage unless the restaurant REALLY wants to be short staff in the kitchen until they go out of business. Tips exist, yes. But they didn’t have a floor? Floors are common in big cities. I’m assuming they didn’t stick around? Well I do live in Austin but I’m looking at server and cook listings in corpus and indeed and it’s all around $15-17/hr.
  13. Where are these restaurants in real life in 2024? You mean like the ones that guarantee a $15/hour floor net of tips? Or the ones who can’t keep line cooks? Tell me none of your kids work restaurant jobs without telling me. Correct, because almost no restaurants in Texas cities pay the minimum wage to staff they have to train. It’s not viable. 💋
  14. Outside of specific circumstances, that’s bad.
  15. I’ve got about 2 pounds of mixed white and dark smoked turkey meat, about a pound of roasted beef tenderloin en croute and some chopped beef, to go with green chile cheese grits and green beans almondine. Today for lunch I fried 3 eggs in about 1/3lb of chopped beef. tonight I’m making enchiladas with half the turkey and the rest of the chopped beef with tomatillo/avocado sauce. And the grits For lunch tomorrow I think we’ll have leftover enchiladas and grits and for dinner I’ll get a good baguette and make Lomito sandwiches with some beef, with the green beans. Whatever odds and ends will get put in a pot with some barley and farro and the smoked turkey stock for soup. What are yall doing with yours?
  16. You been on twitter today? They are BIG mad about it.
  17. Ok, and a bonus: what is described above is not some radical dream. It’s the US labor market as it existed from the end of WWII-1994, and began to decline in the early 70’s as the labor participation rate rose and union membership fell off. It is significant to the structure of that market that it included much more expensive stuff. Once upon a time the labor movement looked at automation and machines as holding the potential to create a golden age of shorter hours, higher wages, a radically higher standard of living, and so on. It still could, if we get the tax code right.
  18. The automation of routine work is an intrinsic goal unto itself. “Fear of increased wages” is the wrong comparison. The right comparison is paying a person or feeding an animal to do a thing. Until the cost of a person or animal is zero, faster, cheaper, and more consistently will almost always win out. That’s the nature of any technological disruption since the beginning of time. There is very little you can accomplish with minimum wage laws beyond establishing a baseline of income for a working person and thus the minimum legal attendant cost of a unit of human time. However- if we were using the tax code to capture the externalities of labor getting an insufficient share of productivity, we wouldn’t need income supplementation because people would make more (and stuff would be more expensive and durable).
  19. @HornOnTheBayou all that being said/ the minimum wage should not and is not something a lot of people are actually paid and it’s a lousy proxy to discuss employment and wages, in the same way that minority admissions at Harvard are a lousy proxy for educational opportunities for minorities.
  20. First of all, the minimum wage should be higher, as an enforcement tool to prevent employers from socializing the cost of doing business through the welfare system. It should NOT be a system of enabling low consumer costs or full employment- direct subsidy in the first case and stimulus or better yet direct employment in the second does that job a lot better and cheaper. I realize I’m a pro-market outlier, but as a general rule it’s my view that any employer with more than 1000ish employees or franchised business with the equivalent should be surcharged in the amount of public assistance received by any employee, prorated to the fraction of full time they work. Got an employee on Medicaid and SNAP because you don’t pay them enough to eat and see a doctor? You’re paying for it one way or another.
  21. A reminder that every country in the world that has “full healthcare” pays less per capita for healthcare than we do and almost all western countries have better outcomes, but go off, king.
  22. You seemed to indicate that tipping had some relationship for you to how much the server made, and said that if restaurants in Texas paid more than the minimum wage, you would think about not tipping or eating out less, presumably because you inferred you would have to be overpaying. At this point virtually all restaurants in large and most medium Texas cities are paying way above the minimum wage just to keep staff. You still tipping and eating out or did you cut back, as you said? Why not? Because the cost of labor is a function of the demand for labor. Just like the cost of burgers is set by the demand for burgers. If the cost of the labor required to make burgers goes up, burger places can’t raise past what the market will support. Of course it is. Automation of routine work is universal and pervasive. And in our economy the low hanging fruit isn’t minimum wage workers, but middle management and operational roles.
×
×
  • Create New...