Comment on Minimum Wage Must Cover Basics
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 hours agoA lot of jobs only exist because we need people to be working. There’s no societal need for a door greeter. If your ice cream shop doesn’t generate enough revenue to pay someone working there a living wage, it isn’t a viable business, or your prices are too low.
You mention UBI and really, that’s the answer, but without it, everyone needs to work to survive and when there isn’t enough work that needs doing, we invent bullshit work just to say we’re employing someone.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
And this is how we get Amazon as the only source of ice cream, to make it cost effective or viable. Everyone here is just virtue signaling, the reality is shit would collapse or at least consolidate to total garbage without low wage jobs. The only solution is UBI, and that can work in societies with extreme logistical excess who also have a culture that wants to help the less fortunate. That’s surely not the US.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Amazing how sone countries have much more survivable minimum wages, more vacation time, low cost health care, and still have local ice cream shops
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Low-wage jobs are just exploiting desperate people. If the cost of living were more reasonable, it wouldn’t be an issue - it doesn’t need to be an ice cream shop paying $40 / hr, it needs to be housing and necessities being cost-limited or subsidized. Subsidies for necessities and increased taxes on luxuries would help.