Minimum wage should have been $15 an hour 10 years ago.
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If you think a job should exist, the people working that job should be paid enough to live comfortably.
You don't get to look down on people flipping burgers and sneer that they should get a real job if you want McDonald's to exist - you're essentially saying people should be punished for delivering a service that you want - it's sickening.
$15/ an hour ain't shit anymore. $20+ should be minimum.
The "fight for 15" movement officially started in Nov 2012. CPI calculator says that's $20.54 in today's money. But we all know housing and groceries have gone up significantly faster than CPI, and mostly just because the people controlling the supply decided they wanted more money.
We should use a money supply where they can't do that!
If you're suggesting something like cryptocurrency or a return to the gold standard, I challenge you to explain how that would help in this situation.
In this situation our pay is getting cut every year, at a greater rate than minimum wage is going up.
Conservative: yes
did you just have this list of people you don't respect ready to go, imaginary person I made up for this fake conversation meme?
Also, 'the job you do creates less value than the wage you're demanding for it' and 'I don't respect you' are not the same sentence. They're not even the same category of statement. The former is an assertion of fact (which can be true/false, depending on the job/wage), the latter a subjective value judgment.
A republican should make $15/h
At least 15$/h. And even that's not enough to live on these days.
Low wages would honestly be fine if everyone was guaranteed housing and food and medical care. I just want a society where a person who is lazy or unambitious or disadvanted who just wanted to take a year off could survive with some reasonable level of comfort without working at all if they didn't want to.
It was hard to live on that 20 years ago.
I came into this thinking $15 was too low so it makes the poster seem like the bad guy
I support abolishing minimum wage... once every person has sufficient healthy food, safe shelter, and needs based access to healthcare and educational resources.
Yeah, make the employers compete against UBI. Can you pay me more to work than the government pays me to sit on my ass?
I wonder if UBI is ever going to happen as a side-effect of corporate greed. Like, you want employees? Well, too bad, I've hired all of them. With non-compete clauses, no less. And I've spammed all job hunting sites so that 99% of resumes phone numbers go to my sales reps who will swarm your number if you ever dare to post a job listing yourself. So, no way around me. Now, I could subcontract you a few, but it is going to cost you big bucks since I have to make a profit somehow with most them sitting on their asses with minimum wage.
This is basically what happened with the housing market(at least 'round here), and has occurred on smaller scale in the IT sector. Not sure if that'd ever be possible in the general market with the sheer amount of money required to pull this off. Especially as humans, unlike houses, are unlikely to become an appreciating resource without general population decline.
Feel free to throw a wrench in this theory, though. I don't really want to live in a world where my livelihood depends on some real estate fucks.
Makes me wonder if absolutely shitty jobs like janitorial work or garbage collection or working in sewers would go from being minimumally paid to being super high paying jobs if there was UBI, because it would become the only way to actually attract (a majority) people to the work. Or if it would just force robotics to get better specifically for these kinds of jobs humans don't want to do.
Both, ideally. Though UBI is still just a bandaid on the gushing wound that is capitalism; without radically correcting the housing market landleeches will just raise rents by the exact amount of UBI and we'll be in the exact same situation.
An actually good UBI system would also include shit in the verbiage of the law to prevent that.
Yeah when mass unemployment hit with the pandemic, we were shown exactly how insufficient most if not all states' unemployment benefits were for actually living on. I think having some kind of voucher system where this is one week's groceries, one month's rent, etc., would work, but of course they're going to find a way to game whatever we come up with. Saying "but they'll find loopholes" isn't a reason not to do the first step. That's letting perfection get in the way of progress, and it's pretty much the entire corpo pol playbook.
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