Minimum wage is your boss yelling you that he’d like to pay you less, but it’s AGAINST THE LAW!
Minimum Wage Isn't Living Wage
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Every ten years like clockwork, for about the last one hundred years, we complain about the fact that minimum wage is not enough to live on. Every ten years, like clockwork, nothing changes and the rich get richer. Is anything “for the people” anymore?*
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Raises in minimum wage don’t come from nowhere. So the boss increases prices to cover it. Cost of living thus increases, so we ask for a rise in the minimum wage.
How about we set a MAXIMUM wage, then set it to be no higher than 3-5% more than the lowest paid employee in the company? The extra money left can be paid out as dividends to investors and/or taxed by the government.
THAT’S HOW YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM: BE EFFECTIVE, NOT EFFUSIVE.
grranibal@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t people complain about it every day?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
10 years. Every day. Are they so different? :)
spacegoat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine being a conservative, being on the wrong side of history and virtually every issue, and never catching a clue. Pathetic
Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, they never get punished for it, so what’s the downside?
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Discussion on the floor before the bill was passed (1938) clearly defined what a “minimum wage” would be… enough for a family of four to stay out of poverty (with one parent at home). It was supposed to be raised to that minimum in perpetuity.
You could “flip hamburgers” and feed your wife and two kids.
Now, the minimum wage isn’t enough to feed yourself, let alone a pet. Unless that pet is a rat. One of the many infesting your squalid apartment.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 2009.
veryblandusername@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
This is one of those “I’m 16 and this is deep” moments.
Like no shit. Also when the sun rises, the temperature does too!
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If the worker cannot live on the wages they are payed, that means that someone else has to cover the rest.
That someone else is often the government (e.g. Walmart employees needing food stamps)
These companies are getting labor subsidized by taxpayer money.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Minimum wage in the UK is getting close to the living wage. The living wage foundation calculate what the a living wage actually is, some employers use that to base the minimum rate they will pay staff instead of the minimum wage. Its voluntary so they don’t have to but employers that do usually like to show it off.
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Federal minimum wage is $7.50/hr and that change was going on 20 years ago… July 24th, 2009 to be exact…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thanks Obama!
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
No fucking shit. It has been like that since the 90s at least, 1971 was the genesis of the devolution/
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Preaching to the choir.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 3 weeks ago
Good to know that things ultimately haven’t changed in the last 100 years or so… The rich and powerful have always been selfish pricjs.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.” ― Chris Rock
Felis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
yeah, but he actually got elected because his own party didn’t stab him in the back twice.