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You, nradov, are the problem. Paying people a living wage is not a handout. Raising the minimum wage is not a handout. These people are working, hard, harder
by iancmceachern 3y ago
You, nradov, are the problem.
Paying people a living wage is not a handout. Raising the minimum wage is not a handout.
These people are working, hard, harder than you do, for way less. These people are being taken advantage of. It's not just fast food workers, it's bank tellers, it's farm workers, it's orderliness and custodians at hospitals, it's the backbone of our society.
What do you get paid to do? I would argue that what you get paid for what you do is more of a handout than raising the minimum wage of a janitor, which isn't a handout at all.
- nradov 3y agoFeel free to insult me if that makes you feel better but it won't solve anything. You can't force private employers to hire unproductive, unskilled workers at wages that make them unprofitable. A better solution would be to eliminate the minimum wage entirely and instead expand the Earned Income Tax Credit. Basically have negative income tax rates for low income workers. This would cut unemployment and allow those people to start gaining some real job skills.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack. We're trying to avoid that here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- raincom 3y agoWhy not reduce the cost of living?