Minimum wage

Minimum wage should have been $15 an hour 10 years ago.

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.

At least 15$/h. And even that's not enough to live on these days.

It’s wild how conservatives have been led to believe that people shouldn’t make a livable wage doing whatever job needs to be done.

Then, when people don’t want to work for shit pay, they cry that “nobody wants to work anymore”.

The focus on wages is misleading (intentionally). America has more than enough resources for everyone here to live comfortable lives regardless of what jobs anyone does, they’re just poorly distributed

Just a reminder that we’ve been trying to get the minimum wage to $15/hr for so long that if we kept up with inflation the minimum wage would be over $25/hr now. By the time $15/hr actually passes it’ll be less than half of what it should be.

I support abolishing minimum wage... once every person has sufficient healthy food, safe shelter, and needs based access to healthcare and educational resources.

People act like if people were paid enough to cover their rent and bills, they would be living some ultra life of luxury. The arguments against minimum wage being raised never make any sense when wealthy people use every loop in the book to extract as much as possible.

If you've ever been to a restaurant with a conservative, the way they treat servers like shit is a dead give-away of their political orientation. Conservatives hate working class people.

So... one approach you could take would be to say anyone working a full time job should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment. You know, New Deal kind of ethos for the modern era.

https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/united-states/?bedrooms=1

Ok, avg one bed rent ~= $1600 a month.

$1600 * 3 = $4800 (1/3 rent to income ratio)

$4800 / (40 hrs x 4 weeks) = $30 dollars an hour.

So yeah its actually worse than 'We've been arguing about $15 for so long its more like $25'.

Nope. Its $30 an hour. $62,400 a year.

Sure would be cool if we did literally anything to _actually_make housing more affordable.

(BTW 60% of working individual Americans make less than this)

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

I came into this thinking $15 was too low so it makes the poster seem like the bad guy

A republican should make $15/h

$15 is a start. How about $20 and adjusted to inflation yearly?

Conservative: yes

“But you clearly deserve more than $15 an hour. What do you do, what do you deserve to earn, and why?”

hey now why'd you have to crop it so we don't get to see how fucking old this tweet screencap is?

But if you ask them if someone deserves a million dollars per hour for shitposting on Twitter they look at you like you just burned an effigy in their front lawn. Not the brightest bunch

Gross income, roughly for a 35-40h workweek

Show me how you convince someone making $40k that someone making $400k: 1. isn't rich. And 2 shares their class struggle.

The fact is they don't and they'll never see it that way.
You can say you're fighting billionaires all you want but what ppl see is you're trying to fight 350k makers which they could be some day.

Instead of devaluing our currency, delaying any chance of retirement and reducing our savings spending power, how about we get control of this endless inflation?

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.

... _(yes)

Society needs Mandatory Service Worker Service. Like Mandatory Military Service, except you are required to spend a year working a full time minimum wage job with no outside financial support before you turn 25