Minimum Wage: You've been Played

[YOLOswag91]

Decades ago, minimum wage was in sync with the cost of expected living and what not. Over the last couple of decades, it's drastically fallen behind and can hardly afford the ultimate poverty life.

I believe the govt intentionally allowed it to drastically fall behind instead of raising it accordingly to everything else increasing in price. That way it would seem too late to raise it and the people would be fighting eachother over the pros and cons, as we are now.

People are now too afraid of a drastic price increase to be okay with increasing minimum wage.

Side note: EVERYTHING is already drastically increasing in price without people being paid more. People are just going to go deeper into poverty no matter what happens.

The govt/CEOs won and you guys don't even see it because you're too busy fighting eachother.

[sn24]

Jokes on you OP, just applied for a few minimum wage summer jobs

[Jiwa]

I hate everything

[SirWoodbury]

Aw fuk bye

[Sh1f7]

They will find a way to leech off us even if we raise the minimum wage

[YOLOswag91]

Jokes on you OP, just applied for a few minimum wage summer jobs

My part time job (about to graduate uni) pays me above minimum wage and it still has me in a deficit. This chit only pays for gas and food (which have risen in cost profoundly while our pay hasn't). What a joke brahs

[Evolutionary1]

rich get richer, poor get poorer

[xdanisx]

Will post copypasta once if/when my friend request is accepted. OP, you cool with this?

EDIT: Wrong thread, wtf...

[YOLOswag91]

rich get richer, poor get poorer

And the middle class further dissolves. Too bad we weren't born a few decades earlier. They had life on easy mode.

[YOLOswag91]

Will post copypasta once if/when my friend request is accepted. OP, you cool with this?

EDIT: Wrong thread, wtf...

Lol you confused the chit out of me for a minute.

[.aeterna]

more important than the minimum wage is our welfare and unemployment support systems...

[Ratfish]

i'd rather mcdonalds and wal-mart pay their wage vs me paying it via taxes and benefits

i don't frequent either of those chitholes, so i don't give a fukk if their prices rise or even if they disappear

[Icanlift]

mind blown *poof*

[Lamborg]

Wow minimum wage isn't livable in the long term making people aspire to learn actual skills and earn a higher salary

who the fuk cares, you shouldn't be working a minimum wage job your whole life

[Awkwardcel]

lol you stupid liberal

if you raise the minimum wage then where does all that money come from? the CEOs pockets? no, it comes from the increases in prices

there should be no law mandating a minimum wage

[YOLOswag91]

more important than the minimum wage is our welfare and unemployment support systems...

The abuse of those services is directly related to the govt screwing the lower class as I wrote on the first post. The more they can push people to fall behind, the more they are dependent on the govt, and the more wealth that goes to the already filthy rich. A master plan that has unfolded for many years, yet the people turn a blind eye and blame eachother.

[BrahMoney]

They will find a way to leech off us even if we raise the minimum wage

"They" and "us".

Gotta love that mentality.

[Vidiot]

Try living in Hawaii cost of living is nuts I only make $12/hr but hey it's gorgeous here so it's all worth it lol

[RAS7331]

lol you stupid liberal

if you raise the minimum wage then where does all that money come from? the CEOs pockets? no, it comes from the increases in prices

there should be no law mandating a minimum wage

I would rather spend 20 more cents on a carton of milk then support walmarts entire workforce through taxes.

[YOLOswag91]

Wow minimum wage isn't livable in the long term making people aspire to learn actual skills and earn a higher salary

who the fuk cares, you shouldn't be working a minimum wage job your whole life

It's not even livable for a month anymore. Here I am working my azz off going above full time in school and living in poverty while busting azz for this low end part time job. Like I said, the govt played people like you to hate the poor and not realize their plan.

I didn't choose to be born into a poverty family. I deserve better than this. I'm too freakin smart and hard working to be paid so little. But life's not fair and that's the way it is.

[risingphoenix73]

Will post copypasta once if/when my friend request is accepted. OP, you cool with this?

EDIT: Wrong thread, wtf...

strong. lol. woulda been funnier without the edit.

[1fast1]

nobody got played. the standard of living has also drastically changed. used to, a "livable wage" didn't include hi speed internet, hundreds of tv channels, the latest i-phone with expensive data plans, and at one point, even central heating and air.

so let me get this straight, now everyone wants to live like what would be considered straight up luxury in many other countries and work a poverty ass job making minimum wage to get that?! lol yeah, seems legit.

for the retards that have your point of view, my suggestion would be get out of your own country and see how tons and tons of other countries live as their norm. or, compare what life was like in 1950 and what it consisted of, then understand why a minimum wage was livable in said conditions.

negged.

[Awkwardcel]

I would rather spend 20 more cents on a carton of milk then support walmarts entire workforce through taxes.

except if you raise the minimum wage there will be higher levels of unemployment


didnt think that one through now did you?

[KayronF]

I hate everything

Yep, and people always ask me why I never smile.

[Ernie2Bert]

The minimum wage is a sham - you've been duped.

This isn't about 'keep the status quo' or 'raise it'. They are still contributing to the problem.

What do you call someone who's labor is not worth the minimum wage? Perpetually unemployed.

[SkyGuardian]

nobody got played. the standard of living has also drastically changed. used to, a "livable wage" didn't include hi speed internet, hundreds of tv channels, the latest i-phone with expensive data plans, and at one point, even central heating and air.

so let me get this straight, now everyone wants to live like what would be considered straight up luxury in many other countries and work a poverty ass job making minimum wage to get that?! lol yeah, seems legit.

for the retards that have your point of view, my suggestion would be get out of your own country and see how tons and tons of other countries live as their norm. or, compare what life was like in 1950 and what it consisted of, then understand why a minimum wage was livable in said conditions.

negged.

If you look at other countries who constantly get rated with the best standards of living, they all have one thing in common. A minimum wage in which anyone can live comfortably off of.

[bjjruinedmylife]

inflation can be manipulated

if you apply the same level of inflation on peoples wages it defeats the purpose

brb $50/hour working in mcdonalds.

also wow, some of you guys got some dumb ass theories lol

[wolfhere]

The real culprit is the Fed and the existing centralized monetary system. Ever since we went off the gold standard things have been phucked. Not that I am for a return to the gold standard but having a centralized monetary policy allows for so much abuse by those who control the money supply.

Change the money first, and everything else will follow.






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[BostonRockets]

I make min wage but live with my parents still. There are lots of old people at my workplace who probably make the same as me. mind = blown how they survive. tough lives.

[ckuyook]

brb getting corporation/gov't job. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em