As a teenager, this would have motivated me to do crime. You aren’t going to pay fairly? I’m going to make money unfairly. Anyone who pays under minimum wage would get retribution. Also, kids should band together and not work at these places. And rob them.
The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers
Submitted 3 weeks ago by dazerl@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Hell yeah. Nice to here some of your generation being sick of this shit.
Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What the fuck
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You see, teens aren’t people. They’re animals owned by their parents. So some of the money goes to animal care costs.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that’s bad, my state only follows federal minimum wage, so that’s $7.25 for everybody
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile, the additional costs spared:
If you’re a normal/poor person: scraping by -> can’t even live paycheck to paycheck anymore
If you’re somewhat affluent: okay -> scraping by
If you’re a billionnaire: excellent -> excellent (nothing changes)
Rune_Walsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jane Raybauld, a Democrat, pushed for this because her family owns grocery stores that employ minors. She’s a piece of shit.
rottenmummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
US being US
arin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
conservative is to be backwards
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One state isn’t other 49. Don’t lump the backwards with the rest of us.
rottenmummy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You have a point most recently we don’t hear that best of news out of the US. it is especially hard not to do so because the president is a pedophile.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Cant vote but can be worked to death for poverty wages - just one more form of legal slavery
zout@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you're 15, still below €10 if you're 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wtf, only 30% of the minimum wage for being 15? What exactly is the company supposed to do with the other 70% to justify that?
zout@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
The justification once was that young people couldn't get a job if someone more experienced would get the same pay.
BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess the GOP wants to fuck the teens in more ways than one
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Work is work, age shouldn’t have a damn thing to do with it.
pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Children working for low wages: truly a show of a thriving state and a Great America /s
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Imagine how many of them are parents themselves, just fuck over 2 generations at once.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How many affected by this aren’t even capable of voting? Fucking evil.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile, when I was a teen I had to pay bills and rent, and I was paid MUCH MORE than kids are today (inflation).
But fuck teens, right? Oh, and you’re drafted womp womp
Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Child slavery is beginning again
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
More MAGA winning. This is exactly what MAGA wants to do on a national level.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t really have an issue with this. At $25 an hour, 10% less for actual teenagers is fair.
Wait, did you say $15?
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
yeah it should at the least be the opposite and raise minimum wage for non teenages. Its low enough.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll say what I said on another thread. At least it’s still higher than their age of consent.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
$13.50 is less than 16 years of age? How does that math work? Is it $2 per year or is there some other formula you’re using?
Age of consent in Nebraska, USA is 16. This is easily Googleable (I used DDG though, which uses Bing on the back end). Here’s the top result: www.ageofconsent.net/states/nebraska
P.S. I broke out the calculator to justify your original statement. To get 15.9 as an age (lower than the age of consent in Nebraska, USA), you would have to consider $1.18 to be the value of each year. In other words, if you really did want to compare $13.50 an hour to an age that is lower than the minimum age of consent (I used 15.9), you would have to value each year to be worth $1.18. Or each dollar to be worth 1.18 years. I’m not sure. I’m not great at math. Maybe someone else can explain that better. I tried to make your argument make sense!
(I think you were trying to say that Nebraska’s age of consent is 13, but you didn’t think anybody would go look it up.)
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a joke.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now implement price controls.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Voting Republican has consequences.
If you think your kids hated you before, let’s see how they like you now.