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

almost_genocide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The issue with labor right now isn’t legal allotment but availability and talent. Boomers are exiting the labor pool, immigrants are shut out of the labor market, and the Millennials/GenAs aren’t sufficient to close the gap.

What is this pro-corporate drivel?

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

If companies need talent they need to train people.

Sure. And they’ve outsourced that process very successfully through the privatized college system.

But college isn’t the bottleneck. We have plenty of diploma mills and overflowing lecture halls.

What we lack, more often than not, is low income service sector workers. Janitors, retail employees, bus boys and line cooks. We’re in short supply of agriculture hands, which is why prison labor is becoming incredibly popular.

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- almost_genocide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Buddy is simping for corporations your hobby?
  
  low income service sector workers
  
  This is you saying there’s a “shortage” of people willing to work for unlivable wages and then explaining that’s what makes “prison labor” AKA slave labor incredibly popular.
  
  We get it bud. Corporations love human slaves. This comes as a surprise to nobody. You talking about it like this is a problem with workers instead of the horrifying reality of corporate greed is just gross.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    This is you saying there’s a “shortage” of people willing to work for unlivable wages
    
    The work has value that far exceeds the wages being paid
    
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    almost_genocide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes. And that’s a problem.
    
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