Bill Maher on minimum wage

[Type Username Here]

tell people to work shytty jobs as a means of springboarding to something better when said shytty job teaches them no skills nor provides them with an income suitable for future enterprise, brehs

Yea, but what about the bootstraps breh?

 

[DEAD7]

Holy sh*t!

I was being funny, but you niqqas really do think Wendy's cashier is a career...

 

[Type Username Here]

Holy sh*t!

I was being funny, but you niqqas really do think Wendy's cashier is a career...

How about we start realizing that in a society, all jobs have a purpose and that having a certain job shouldn't mean starving and living in poverty?

In my day to day life, low paying jobs such as janitors, waitresses, cashiers have much more to do with positive social cohesion than a million-dollar wall street execs who bet on money.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Holy sh*t!

I was being funny, but you niqqas really do think Wendy's cashier is a career...

That it?

Got any more mocking of people struggling day to day through life?

 

[Robbie3000]

Here we go with the same old capitalist narrative and "bootstraps" nonsense.

"Make good life choices" they say, without taking in supplementary information of those workers and their environment. That's one of the problems with capitalism, everything can be explained by "do it better" without taking into account that either:

A) Most Businesses would not survive if everyone was above working at some place

OR

B) Skilled workers would become overly-saturated and thus you would have skilled workers who made good life choices working at McDonalds (i.e., back to step one).


Thus, a system such as this neo-capitalism that we have today depends on there being a criminal class, poverty, wealth disparity, lack of education, lack of birth control, and so on. If ALL people made better lifestyle choices, the criteria for the lower classes would just re-adjust. Therefore, instead of you being a High School drop out to work at place X, now you have to have a Bachelor's degree to flip burgers. Then the capitalist would be in here saying "Well fukking bootstraps, bootstraps, better decisions, bootstraps, trickledown c*nt, bootstraps" nonsense and telling everyone to get PhDs.

fukking fairy tale nonsense.

Very well said.

 

[ELITE]

America is a capitalist state to core. Raising the Minimum wage would only work if everything else remained constant, but this is just a slippery slope that would end up increasing prices of everything else so nothing is really achieved...

How about we start realizing that in a society, all jobs have a purpose and that having a certain job shouldn't mean starving and living in poverty?

In my day to day life, low paying jobs such as janitors, waitresses, cashiers have much more to do with positive social cohesion than a million-dollar wall street execs who bet on money.

This would be great and exists in Socialist States.

 

[DEAD7]

That it?

Got any more mocking of people struggling day to day through life?

Ya, Aim higher

How about we start realizing that in a society, all jobs have a purpose and that having a certain job shouldn't mean starving and living in poverty?

In my day to day life, low paying jobs such as janitors, waitresses, cashiers have much more to do with positive social cohesion than a million-dollar wall street execs who bet on money.

In a perfect world(or just the one in your head) yes, but what we see in reality around the world is quite the opposite, and its not do to greed or selfishness. Its due to the human condition.
Never has a society flourished without people at the bottom starving.
Feel free to list some examples if you beg to differ

What the market economy has done is made it so those at the bottom live a "livable" life.

America is a capitalist state to core. Raising the Minimum wage would only work if everything else remained constant, but this is just a slippery slope that would end up increasing prices of everything else so nothing is really achieved...



This would be great and exists in Socialist States.

this seems impossible for some liberals to grasp.

You cant fukk rich people... you just cant. Stop trying.
You only hurt the little guys by trying to.
Raising wages/taxes etc. doesnt help anyone but the rich

 

[the cac mamba]

stopped to realize and 8 an hour aint shyt

im no communist but they need to get shyt like the responsible retailer laws implemented more. shyt is ridiculous

 

[Rawtid]

I think if minimum wage jobs paid more, they'd raise the hiring requirements i.e you need a degree and/or experience to work there. I don't have them paying up and keeping the same hiring practices.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Minimum wage jobs were never meant to be careers. They are supposed to be stepping stones to further yourself. I read articles about people complaining that they have been working at this minimum wage job for 6 years and still get paid so low. How about having some ambition and making some moves. And people with kids? Sorry about your bad life choices , but its your responsibility to fix the situation. If I had a kid and was making little money, it would just make me that much more motivated to make it. I know the system is against the low income of the country, but they have plenty of ways out if you look hard enough.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I know 5 different families that own McDonald's franchises. All of them are multi-millionaire families.

owning multiple franchises =/= owning one franchise as your sole income.

Rappers and athletes own these chains as side projects, does that mean the immigrant father who owns them is also rich?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Good lord,man are you lost...You really believe that people work in fast food for a number of years as a choice????? You need to read up on what capitalism is how it functions...its not about bad life choices bruh, its about a system of oppression that can only survive off the cheap labor of poor souls who happen to be disproportionately black....but you think its bad life choices throughout the black community huh? Read your history homie

And thats where I disagree.

I don't find a correlation between McD's preferring poor black people to work there ONLY BECAUSE i'd assert that you've never been to a McD's outside of a major urban area.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Your acting like its mandatory for people to work at Mcdonalds. If you don't want to work a minimum wage job, don't work work a minimum wage job. Any person in poverty with a GED can go to a community college for FREE. School not your thing? Government offers training to learn a new trade. Cant learn a trade? Guess what your a loser probably doomed for failure who can't be helped. Hate to sound harsh but that's real talk that some people need to hear. Stop complaining, learn to work, be humble, save whatever little money you can.
I'm from the bottom, was raised in projects, saw what was going on and maneuvered out of that shyt. I didnt have parents pushing me to go to school, work ect i made those choices myself. Remember in school I was broke as shyt making like $80 a week on that student work program shyt,while other kids had brand new whips from their parents. I have no sympathy for the weak...You keep making excuses i'll keep making moves.

I will agree with you that the TRADE SCHOOL GAP is definitely increasing.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I bet ya'll ain't up on that universal income tho...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

How about we start realizing that in a society, all jobs have a purpose and that having a certain job shouldn't mean starving and living in poverty?

In my day to day life, low paying jobs such as janitors, waitresses, cashiers have much more to do with positive social cohesion than a million-dollar wall street execs who bet on money.

define "poverty"