Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate

• TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Minimum wage means nothing without a Maximum wage. Business owners will never give themselves a pay cut to give you a pay raise. They’ll pass it on to the consumer and then we’ll be right back to the beginning again. You also need to put an end to Capital Gains tax dodging through loans and stock buybacks. The Wealthy are using it as “free money” glitch and that’s what’s driving up inflation more than anything.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We should go through the effort of writing bills to do all of those things too. Pieces of it could get picked up in other bills as amendments. The point is not to just give up because you think putting any one improvement together is useless until everything is already put together nicely.

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    • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      oh, I’m not suggesting that we stop trying, but if we solve the underlying issues that cause the need for Minimum wage increases, they will be necessary less often, or, even be able to be reduced with no ill effects to overall cost of living. It’s not a zero sum game, and there are many factors at play. Focussing only on one aspect will never SOLVE the problem, merely kick the can down the road.

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because Democrats are on the same team as Republicans, and it's not ours. And we're just as ineffective, consumed by inertia.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So we should be sad and do nothing and shame anyone who tries something doomed to fail anyway.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No we should be organizing on a much grander scale.

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  • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Goddamn lemmy eats up that both sides bullshit so hard.

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    • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The purpose of a system is what it does.

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      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes yes we all know you’re an accelerationist. Your input is useless as always.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, people are generally in touch with reality on this topic.

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      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Y’all ain’t even have a basic understanding of civics much less reality.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Less minimum wage should be tied to inflation, more minimum wage should be tied to congressional salary. (Some multiplier, because they do need to live in two places)

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d prefer tying the salary (including bonuses, assets, and everything) to the lowest paid wages in the nation.

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    • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or ditch the minimum wage and implement a Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the Federal level (or State level!!). If there’s UBI, the minimum wage doesn’t have to be there which technically could make labor more competitive in general, plus you don’t have to rely on your job to get your basic needs met.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Less minimum wage should be tied to inflation, more minimum wage should be tied to congressional salary.

    These two wages should be the same.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Who is “you”? I don’t think the democrats are here. They don’t give a shit.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Congress, campaigns, non-profits and advocacy organizations.

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