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You’re not supposed to be able to support a kid on a minimum wage. The minimum wage supports the minimum lifestyle - single person household with minimally acce

You’re not supposed to be able to support a kid on a minimum wage. The minimum wage supports the minimum lifestyle - single person household with minimally acceptable levels of food/clothing/shelter/other.

jimbofisher1 8y ago
And there's the libertarian.
- ggg9990 8y ago
  Not really... most of my voting has been aligned with moderate redistribution. But I’m more for taking the destitute and giving them a minimal lifestyle (housed, fed, clothed, small amount of entertainment) than taking people with minimal lifestyles and giving them more for no additional economic output. I don’t think there should be people getting too few calories in the US, or living in mold infested slums, but I don’t see a problem with a minimum wage worker living in a small bedroom with shared bathrooms and beans/rice with chicken three times a week.
  - jimbofisher1 8y ago
    The problem with this assumption is that you imagine all minimum wage workers are 18 year olds living on their own. In reality there are countless(millions?) of people trying to support a family on those wages and are forced to turn to government assistance to make up the difference. As a libertarian I'm sure you hate the idea of people using government assistance more than forcing corporations to pay them a fair wage in the first place.
  - Spooky23 8y ago
    Sweet. Will they get a hard roll once a week too? SROs and workhouses... what a vision for the future. It’s a shame that we’ve given back all of the advances of the 20th century.
monocasa 8y ago
FDR, when signing into law one of the first acts that started the legal framework behind the minimum wage, blatantly disagreed with you. > In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html

jimbofisher1 8y ago

And there's the libertarian.

ggg9990 8y ago
Not really... most of my voting has been aligned with moderate redistribution. But I’m more for taking the destitute and giving them a minimal lifestyle (housed, fed, clothed, small amount of entertainment) than taking people with minimal lifestyles and giving them more for no additional economic output. I don’t think there should be people getting too few calories in the US, or living in mold infested slums, but I don’t see a problem with a minimum wage worker living in a small bedroom with shared bathrooms and beans/rice with chicken three times a week.
- jimbofisher1 8y ago
  The problem with this assumption is that you imagine all minimum wage workers are 18 year olds living on their own. In reality there are countless(millions?) of people trying to support a family on those wages and are forced to turn to government assistance to make up the difference. As a libertarian I'm sure you hate the idea of people using government assistance more than forcing corporations to pay them a fair wage in the first place.
- Spooky23 8y ago
  Sweet. Will they get a hard roll once a week too? SROs and workhouses... what a vision for the future. It’s a shame that we’ve given back all of the advances of the 20th century.

monocasa 8y ago

FDR, when signing into law one of the first acts that started the legal framework behind the minimum wage, blatantly disagreed with you. > In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html