California voters to consider raising minimum wage to $18 with Proposition 32

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, better than not going up but $18 would have been reasonable years ago and now it should be far higher.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last time I checked 25 bucks is cost of living but it’s been a couple years. I wouldn’t be surprised if it should be higher now.

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t wait to see the campaigns against this lmao

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The best part is there’s a lot of data now about how the raise in minimum wage has helped in California.

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  rentalrealestate.com/data/rent/california/

  Avg Studio Apartment Rent: $1575

  Required Hourly Wage for rent to be 1/3 of income, working 40 hrs a week (taxes ignored): $29.54

  Avg One Bed Rent: $1724

  Required Hourly Full Time Wage (Ignoring Taxes): $32.33

  Avg Two Bed Rent: $2,161

  Required Hourly Full Time Wage (Ignoring Taxes): $40.52

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  So basically, you can afford a studio apartment on a full time min wage job if you share it with someone who works about 20 hrs a week at min wage…

  … all ignoring taxes on your income.

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  • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s if you can find a studio. All I could find by me was 1 & 2 bedrooms.

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An important note I feel was fucking unnecessary in this, though I did vote yes because I’m not a moron:

  Inflation Adjustments Paused Until 2027. The minimum wage would be adjusted for inflation every year starting in 2027. These adjustments would follow the current rules described earlier.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If minimum wage is always 10+ years behind what a living wage should be, what’s the point? People can’t survive on $18 an hour, so the focus should only be on living wage.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s closer to the $45/hour it actually needs to be so, yes, but mostly we keep going.

  It needs to be tied to some figure or other so it goes up automatically.

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• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still too low

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• Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem with minimum wages is that they also drive up prices over time. This is a bandaid to a much bigger problem.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why they also need to introduce a maximum wage. To stop prices going up from paying the ceo too much.

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    • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunno why you’d think that solves the problem

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So we should decrease your salary to drive down prices?

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    • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While lower salaries would decrease the amount of financial pressure on companies and could lead to more competitivepricesz, I don’t think that that would be the correct avenue to walk down no.

      I think the only real solution to that is to break up mega corporations and try to fund and subsidize local businesses.

      Capitalism has been a blessing for everyone, even those clowns on lemmy.ml or other clown instances, but when globalization hit, it went downhill. Trying to promote local businesses again would - at least in my opinion - better the entire system, from wages to prices to work conditions.

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