$15/hr minimum wage

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(08-14-2018, 05:01 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Did you even read my post? I acknowledged there will be people working at a minimum wage jobs.


No one's crapping on them. But, why do you think everyone that works deserves a living wage? When I started at my first job, I was 15 and living at home. I had absolutely 0 bills and my parents didn't need to make me pay for anything (no rent, nothing towards utilities). Why did I deserve to make a living wage? 

Yes, many people are trying to make a living wage on minimum wage. My first question is how did they get there? Then I would ask what THEY can do to better their situation? JUST raising minimum wage is not going to solve the issue. Cost of living will go up as well as other issues that aren't going to help those people. 

Like just about any issue we face in America, the solution is not simple.

When I was 16 I had my first job packing groceries.  I worked there after school and on weekends.  But there were people there who weren't 16 who had jobs that were more in-depth than mine, but they weren't rocket surgeons.  Anyways, the point is that these people had kids and wives and homes and cars and stuff. They weren't living the high life, but I assume they were living. Does a guy who works the deli counter deserve a living wage?  Hell if I know, I never use that part of the store.  

I knew one guy there who knocked up his gf and was like "Welp, I gotta go get a real job, see ya" so there was that.