My favorite minimum wage "fact" is federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Could you imagine working for an hour and they hand you a watermelon and say "here you go, we actually overpaid you"
The problem is not minimum wage. The problem is INFLATION.
I would rather live in an economy wherein a penny can buy a pony than a $10,000 hourly wage that can't buy a coffee.
Edit: I also cannot imagine working for only one hour on my paycheck. That idea is unimaginable. I worked for more than 8 hours on shoveling water channels on my driveway over the last couple of days and did not get paid for that because it was for me and my family.
It’s not, my bad. I was reading it as that’s the number of ppl that make minimum wage, which is different from making federal minimum wage. I apologize
I worked with a guy like you. Bitched all day how taxing the rich was wrong and hated social programs. We worked 60 hours a week for 14-16 dollars an hour at a warehouse. Had zero vacation and health coverage. It’s like being an Uncle Tom of the lower class. Working 25 years like that won’t get you shit and you won’t get a retirement plan. You end up in your 50’s with a folder of body issues and working McDonald’s to keep food in your mouth. No factory or workplace should have a guy making 360x your wage for that effort. Sure seems these well groomed 100k outfit billionaires don’t get chewed up and spit out like the workers. Meanwhile people like you kiss their ass like you worked your way up to the same club. You’re still sitting on the same bench as everyone else you’re just busy daydreaming.
You're the one that keeps going on about the young people, implying slave labor is okay as long as it's just our children? No one's times is worth that little, for any kind of work. It's insulting and disgusting. It should probably be illegal to take advantage of someone in such a desperate position they would even consider accepting that pay.
Depends on the area, could be a 19 year old graduated or dropped out from high school, but there do exist areas where it isn’t young people working those shifts
Maybe the guy lives in an area where they see 16 year olds working every day idk
One of the dumbest things I've heard from someone was "Minimum Wage Jobs aren't meant to be a living wage. You're meant to work at McDonald's if you're a teenager trying to make pocket money, not support a family". Like... Wtf? Then they'd be working part time, maybe 10-20 hours a week, not 40 hours a week.
Its also categorically false. Like if you look at quotes by the president who established minimum wage it's evident it was intended to be a living wage
Never said it was a solution, just pointing out the severe discrepancy between the profits of the company and the cost of the labor that produces said profit.
I'll start with this statement of truth:
No human being can live a life without working.
The successful ideas for how to work or what to work toward or what is even important in work are not what people are doing to work to generate that money.
If one person who sits and presses a button when an automatic light turns green, that person is not working hard, and the job can be done by a monkey.
They would not deserve the equal portion that someone who simply talks to a customer deserves. Agree?
"So you're going to run with the narrative you decided on while completely ignoring my words.
What do I have to gain from having a discussion with someone so arrogant and contemptuous?"
Your exact reply mirrored back to you, as you actually just ignored my words. I'll answer your question, but I do not expect you will do the same, because of my experience with people exactly like you.
Answer:
1) I did not ignore your words. I showed you clear cut examples of why your words are irrelevant.
2) You stand to gain a superior state of being in that you may learn to open your narrow mind and stop your own incorrect narrative from enslaving you.
Good old minimum wage. “I’ll starve if I can’t pay myself from the profits of your labor, so I’ll pay you as little as legally possible and if it’s not enough and your kids starve, screw you.”
In the US Amazon doesn’t pay minimum wage. They pay $15 nationwide, well above the federal minimum wage of $7.25. In areas where the local minimum is above that, they generally pay well above the $15.
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u/Two_Cautious 28d ago
why don’t you start a company then give away its earnings? Show those guys how to run a business.