03-14-2017, 04:03 PM
(03-13-2017, 10:26 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Maybe one day you and others will figure out raising the minimum wage or changing OT pay rules will not equate to higher income net gain due to the costs rising on the consumer side. I figured out a long time ago if I wanted higher wages to be the best worker, always on time and present and loyal. That is how you go from close to minimum wage to 100K a year within 15 years.
Minimum wage is entry wages to start the learning process. Once in the door almost every company has opportunities to advance if one is motivated.
I missed this earlier. This is all fine and dandy, but in the real world there aren't enough positions to make this reasoning work. Not everyone can move up into a better position, and we need people at the bottom rungs. This whole premise has the same fault as the one that has caused an overabundance of college educated people not using their degrees. If we aren't going to have every person be able to work a full-time job and make a living wage, then there needs to be an adequate social safety net in place to support them.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
