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>Everyone working 40 hours per week deserves a living wage (...) You can earn a living wage for 40 hours a week doing anything in the US. You just can't afford
by dreta 9y ago
>Everyone working 40 hours per week deserves a living wage (...)
You can earn a living wage for 40 hours a week doing anything in the US. You just can't afford a new iPhone. All the minimum wage does is makes it impossible to employ low-skill workers. So while before the minimum wage you could make a living, now you either can't make a living or you're effectively in the lower middle class.
Ask your dad or granddad what they had to go through to get you to a position where you think 15$ an hour is merely a "living wage".
- nkoren 9y ago> You just can't afford a new iPhone. Or a home. Or a car. Or healthcare. The idea that minimum-wage life in America is in any way up to developed-world standards is horribly, laughably, tragically wrong. Not saying that minimum wage is the answer. Personally, I support abolishing it in favor of a Universal basic Income. But suggesting that the problem it is trying to address isn't even real is... just not correct.
- dreta 9y agoYes, it does afford you healthcare the way US works right now, if it doesn't, that's a failing of Obamacare. Also, you want to be able to afford a car and a home by working at McDonald's? What are you talking about? And your solution is to not even have people work, just be given money. That's borderline insane. What cozy life do you have to be living to think that you're entitled to these things.
- coldpie 9y agoYou support, and vote for, universal healthcare and advanced and subsidized public transportation systems, right?
- toxican 9y agoThen ask your dad or grandad to adjust for inflation, cost of living, decreased value of both highschool and college degrees, etc.
- dreta 9y agoI'm talking standard of living, not how much they earned. If you think you have it worse or as bad, you don't know anything.