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This is one of the worst arguments one could ever make. Literally the same as telling someone your salary and they go "wow, you're so overpaid, I make less than
by vultour 5y ago
This is one of the worst arguments one could ever make. Literally the same as telling someone your salary and they go "wow, you're so overpaid, I make less than half that!". No motherfucker, you should be making more money. It's insane that instead of advocating for higher salaries people will attempt to drag each other down.
- pydry 5y agoPretty much every argument against raising the minimum wage is disingenous in some way, but a lot of profits are at stake so we will get to hear them all eventually.
- sovnade 5y agoBut this is the goal, and it works. The people who own the media don't want wages to go up. Lobbyists, anti-union groups, etc...it's much easier to get 2 lower income people mad at each other than to justify their own income to them. Outrage and anger is an easy sell and unfortunately that's what the 24/7 for-profit news cycle is.
- ralfd 5y agoBut what is the end game here? Salaries are also the prices we pay for services/products. If everyone has higher salaries than everyone has to pay more => Inflation. And we are back to square 1.
- colanderman 5y agoThe price we pay for services and products also depends on the cost of energy, raw materials, real estate, etc., required for those services and products, the price of which is fairly independent of minimum wage and is determined by supply & demand.