The a Federal Minimum Wage has been raised twice since 1997, the last time in 2009, for a total of $2.10. It currently stands at $7.25 an hour.
20 states are still at the Federal Minimum Wage, or LESS, with some at $5.15, and Oklahoma as low as $2.
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Submitted 1 day ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Aiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Haiden, and Okaiden, the penta-douche.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
I went to school with the 90s versions- Tucker, Sean, Brad, Brady, Donny, and Clay. Tucker killed someone in a DUI, Brady took over the car dealership, Donny and Brad washed out in their college football efforts and are real estate agents, Clay is 44 and owns a college-age targeted night club he uses to predate on women. Sean turned out to be a decent guy at least.
Wakmrow@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What the hell is going on
Cruellest dream reality
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Who? They all go by nicknames, usually related to their dick size, like Tiny, or Donkey Dick.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Ah yes, The Roofy Boyz.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey, they all suffer from affluenza ok, it’s a totally legit thing that allows them the freedom to roofy! /s because of poes law
qualia@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Poe’s Law: originating from the term "Poorly Constrained* (cf: Poe Ly) which is a technical term used in physics, engineering, and mathematics for a system where there are more variables than available data points, making a single definitive solution impossible. 😏
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Brayden, Kayden, Jayden, Hayden, and Blake
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You need a Sean in there
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 hours ago
In Spain they would all be called Cayetano.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Which one is Preston?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Preston Popcollar is the one who took the photo.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 23 hours ago
Got that first up against the wall when the revolution comes typa rizz
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Share and Enjoy —> Go Stick Your Head in a Pig
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
My hot take: Greedy rich companies and millionaires and billionaires will always try to take as much as possible from the consumer. Raising the minimum wage effects people that were making the minimum wage, and is less and less beneficial to those that were making more than minimum wage. If minimum wage jumped up by $5 to go from $7.25 to $12.25, anyone who was already making $12.25 isn’t likely to get a raise to $17.25.
But because all these people are making more, the wealthy will up pricing if food and housing and utilities in order to keep making even more. This means inflation also rises faster. So while it helps things in the short term, it does nothing to help people in the long term, and it also hurts people closer to or already retired because the inflation will make their fixed incomes worth less.
So raising the minimum wage alone is a shit idea that only puts a short term bandage on things and the rising inflation means you’ll constantly be “behind the eight-ball” and playing catch-up to keep trying to raise it as inflation keeps rising because the rich keep getting richer.
The real fix needs to be lowering the top. Not raising the bottom. Tax the shit out of the wealthy with higher taxes as money made grows. Close the tax loopholes that let them hoard wealth. Make it so that so much of their money beyond like $5,000,000 in cash or assets increasing in value a year would be pointless to try and make because it would all just go to taxes. This will cut the legs out from under the wealthy and stop the needless ripping off of everyone else. If they can’t hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely then the money will start going to the places it should. The inflation would stop, and upping the minimum wage could actually keep things livable.
Allero@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
If they can’t hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely, then their business will stop having any reasons to exist in the first place.
Also, many industries are only efficient at scale, and so putting any limit to that is going to hurt the economy (and hence, you) big time.
Capitalism, in any form, has this fundamental trouble where it either rips you, or has no reason to exist. Taxing the hell out of the rich is a step in the right direction, but ultimately even that is not sustainable. We need socialism.
msage@programming.dev 3 hours ago
We don’t need most of what is being produced today.
Most of those should die.
For every useful thing there are mountains of plastic useless waste produced, sold, and thrown away just to keep the economy turning. Including many clothes.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
That’s a negative on pretty much all you’ve said. Companies will keep growing. More people at the companies will max out at how much you can earn. No one will want to give all extra money to just paying taxes. Instead they’ll take that extra money and it will get dumped back into the company. More buildings, expansion, more employees, higher pay and benefits, r&d, etc. they’ll spend the extra money. You’re talking as if someone who was making $5,000,000 a year would just be like “meh. Not worth doing this”
This was actually fairly close to how things where in the 1950’s when the US had everything going it’s way (if you were white, anyhow). Tax rates on the wealthy where over 90% at one point for over $250,000. Back when you could work at a grocery store and own a home and a car and not worry about drowning in medical debt.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Kinda related: At some point I realized inflation is actually kinda good when you have no assets and large debt, because it effectively shrinks your debt. The problem is, I only thought about it well after paying off my debts and gaining some assets, so now I feel like the guys in the pic if I talk about it.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
only if the interest rate you pay on the debt is lower than inflation. let’s say, if inflation is 3% and your interest rate is 5%, you still make additional 2% real debt every year. if however inflation is 5% and your interest rate is only 3% then you win.
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
This math only maths if your income keeps pace with inflation. Otherwise you’re getting priced out of living. Even if in relative terms your debt is shrinking, that doesn’t make you better off on its own.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, that’s where the kinda comes in.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Inflation is either expected or unexpected by the market.
- If it’s expected, then it was already priced into your rate. The “tax incidence” of typical inflation falls on consumers, not lenders.
- If it’s not expected, then the economy is failing and that’s not good for anyone.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
… and just like that, you figured out what the FED was for, and that our world economy is based on debt, with inflation used to defraud the hordes of workers from adequate wages.
Once it crashes, they buy up those previously inflated assets at rock-bottom prices, and the process begins anew.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I’ll show them, I’ll avoid those cyclical crashes by switching to Bitcoin!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 hours ago
Only if you have fixed interest rate which a lot of people don’t have.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 23 hours ago
I don't care about the minimum. I care about the maximum earnings allowed annually.
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
I love the “we can fix the system built to fuck us up by only [writes a bible about how capitalism is full of loopholes and is basically made by and for billionaires]”. No. There is no way in reforming this corpse of a system.
Solrac@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
That’s ok. The employees can show them what happens when they don’t pussy enough for them to live ✨
debil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Polta lippalakkis nuori…”
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 19 hours ago
Why are they all playing with there junk?
Widdershins@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Making sure it doesn’t fall out of their shorts.
jbellows@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Honestly, I’d hang with them. It’s the ones with the outfits AND the single unifying hair style that immediately mark them as chads. If you look, there’s a guy who’s asking himself why he agreed to this, and a dude who thinks this is both the dumbest but funniest thing they’ve done that week
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Survival Of The Fittest, Bro! Let them fight for scarce resources. /s
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Buncha numpties
Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 hours ago
This looks like the cast of Billy Madison 2.
muxika@piefed.muxika.org 20 hours ago
We just need some duct tape, rope, and a windowless van, and we’re on Easy Street, fellas!
Francislewwis@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The confidence doesn’t match the argument at all 😭
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 day ago
remember when ‘romhims’ were the head-scratching “kids these days…” goofy shit of the day?
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
“It’ll make costs go up! It’ll cause inflation! It’ll cause a wage price spiral!”
NEWS FLASH! minimum wage hasn’t risen for over a decade and yet prices have risen faster than they did when we did raise minimum wage. Almost like, cheap minimum wages allows for more capital consolidation, and that in turn makes it easier for cartels, oligopolies and monopolies to form to enforce larger margins on low elasticity goods.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The average person is willfully ignorant about inflation because they benefit more from networking with people who believe the bullshit.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Capitalism requires a second class of people who are easily exploited and disregarded by the wider majority of workers in its system usually through propaganda. Racism existed before it but it certainly does benefit from making those different lesser so they can be easier exploited and dehumanized when needed.