inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 days agoSanders introduces bill to raise minimum wage to $17 by 2030, benefits nearly 22 million Americansvermontbiz.comexternal-linkmessage-square205fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoIt already realistically needs to be between 25-30 an hr to even be considered a living wage.
minus-squarewarbond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoThen we make two wages, one we call minimum, the other we call living. That way it’s easy to know if a place is offering a living wage or if it’s just unimportant work.
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoThe only problem with that is there’s so much work people consider unimportant that is absolutely vital, just not what people want to do. Like fast food workers during school hours
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days ago Then we make two wages, one we call minimum, the other we call living. That way we can tell the difference between the morlocks and the eloi.
minus-squaregoferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoToo bad too many don’t consider minimum wage as something that should be a living wage
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoWe call those people “all republicans and always just enough democrats.”
minus-squarefrog_brawler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 days agoYea, those people should be re- educated.
It already realistically needs to be between 25-30 an hr to even be considered a living wage.
Then we make two wages, one we call minimum, the other we call living. That way it’s easy to know if a place is offering a living wage or if it’s just unimportant work.
The only problem with that is there’s so much work people consider unimportant that is absolutely vital, just not what people want to do.
Like fast food workers during school hours
That way we can tell the difference between the morlocks and the eloi.
Too bad too many don’t consider minimum wage as something that should be a living wage
We call those people “all republicans and always just enough democrats.”
Yea, those people should be
re-educated.