Whats a living wage though?
if you're always making MW, you'll never be comfortable
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if you're always making MW, you'll never be comfortable
Kill Dat Noize
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well it's tough to really pin it down to a number, but if i were ruler of the world? food and rent would not be unattainable for someone working 40 hours a week.
Thats the thing.
There IS food and rent for people making MW...but its in some heinous conditions
Well at least that is in your opinion.
Why should you as an outside party get to decide what is or isnt a living wage.... if someone wants to work for $5/hr, and a company wants to pay them that much, what's the problem?
U do realize between restaurants and illegal immigrants there are plenty of people already working for much less than minimum wage. What are u so afraid of?
It is attainable, thanks to govt subsidies for housing and food assistance. Most people on MW are not starving or homeless, so by your definition it's OK.
Kill Dat Noize
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you mean aside from subjugating a human being to a life of glorified servitude?
Isnt that what everyone who has to work for a living is subjugated to?
Kill Dat Noize
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people are willing to work for fair compensation.
Why do you get to define what's fair for other people?
Kill Dat Noize
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because the current system isn't in favor of the people, it's in favor of the corporations.
and as long as the corporations are in control, they will never strive for a system that is fair for the people.
i'm for that as long as we remove the social safety net while we're at it. can't have someone working for $5/hr and then getting govt benefits on top of that. that's how wal-mart and the like operate now. paying peanuts and the govt picks up the rest. fukk that. without a safety net then maybe people will wake up to the bullshyt.
Kill Dat Noize
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no one wants to work for 5 dollars an hour, but they will if it's the only job available and they need it to survive.
Lol, and u think a $15 minimum wage will swing that control back to the people?
How will a higher minimum wage curb corporate lobbying, or the insider trading done by Congress, or the "you scratch our back we will give u a multimillion dollar job once u are out of office" revolving door of politicians in the private sector?
Not to mention, if someone is willing to work for a certain amount of money at a certain company, how is that unfair for them? Are you saying you know what's good for everybody better than we know for ourselves?
No one wants to work period.... that is why work is paid.
Kill Dat Noize
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Lol, and u think a $15 minimum wage will swing that control back to the people?
How will a higher minimum wage curb corporate lobbying, or the insider trading done by Congress, or the "you scratch our back we will give u a multimillion dollar job once u are out of office" revolving door of politicians in the private sector?
Not to mention, if someone is willing to work for a certain amount of money at a certain company, how is that unfair for them? Are you saying you know what's good for everybody better than we know for ourselves?
if the government doesn't look out for the common worker, who will?
