I still think the dumbest thing we continue to do is demand a specific number…
Great fight for fifteen sounds nice, but guess what? The assholes elected officials will drag their feet until that $15 is equal in value to what you’re getting now. That slogan was pushed around so long ago and only now is a supposedly “blue state” like NY getting minimum wage to $16/hr…
We need to be demanding a living wage based on the minimum amount required to rent an apartment and buy necessities. And no, I shouldn’t have to have roommates just to afford a shit apartment. That just dilutes the requirement and allows the assholes elected officials to drop that living wage calculation way down when “you just need roommates.”
A specific number is specific to an area not the whole country so we allow Republicans to argue “$15/hr is way too much for backwoods shithole Alabama! You’d live like a king and bankrupt all the businesses!”
Just tie it to the CPI of the state the way social security was. If you want to pay your workers less all you have to do is convince the local government to stop NIMBYing them. Who knows maybe some bigger employees like Walmart or Amazon will actually do it.
I still think the dumbest thing we continue to do is demand a specific number…
Great fight for fifteen sounds nice, but guess what? The
assholeselected officials will drag their feet until that $15 is equal in value to what you’re getting now. That slogan was pushed around so long ago and only now is a supposedly “blue state” like NY getting minimum wage to $16/hr…We need to be demanding a living wage based on the minimum amount required to rent an apartment and buy necessities. And no, I shouldn’t have to have roommates just to afford a shit apartment. That just dilutes the requirement and allows the
assholeselected officials to drop that living wage calculation way down when “you just need roommates.”deleted by creator
I was referring to a national push.
A specific number is specific to an area not the whole country so we allow Republicans to argue “$15/hr is way too much for backwoods shithole Alabama! You’d live like a king and bankrupt all the businesses!”
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Just tie it to the CPI of the state the way social security was. If you want to pay your workers less all you have to do is convince the local government to stop NIMBYing them. Who knows maybe some bigger employees like Walmart or Amazon will actually do it.