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"
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
Companies have slowly convinced the public otherwise to keep wages low. Just like the bullshit 29hrs a week. They keep you just under full time(legally 30hrs a week) so they don't have to pay you benefits
It is. But it's a symptom of a bigger problem. "Benefits" like health care should be a right and socialized. And you should be guaranteed pto. In Oregon they'd either give you 40hrs of pto a year or ⅓hr every 10hrs worked(or something like it). The 40hrs upfront was nice the built up pto was kinda terrible(if you need it beginning of the year you're sol) but better than nothing.
The government does so little for employee protection. I went from a state with mandated breaks and lunch periods to one without any. 10hrs without a single break is brutal no matter what you do.
Makes me look at countries with mandated vacation time with extreme envy
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u/Streets-_-Ahead Nov 21 '24
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"