08-14-2018, 05:21 PM
(08-14-2018, 05:01 PM)PhilHos Wrote: 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?
What does this even mean? How you live away from your job has zero to do with how much you get paid. A multi billionaire has all the money he needs to live on. So why should he be paid anything at all?
You should be the poster boy for people who don't understand their privilege. You had parents who supported you, so people who don't have parents to support them should not get paid enough to live on.
(08-14-2018, 05:01 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Yes, many people are trying to make a living wage on minimum wage. My first question is how did they get there?
They got there because that was the best job they can get. There are not enough high paying jobs for everyone to enter the workforce at a higher wage. And no amount of additional work training will eliminate all minimum wage jobs.
The ides that the number of minimum wage jobs in this country is controlled by the work ethic of the poor is absurd. A certain portion of our economy is going to consist of minimum wage jobs.
(08-14-2018, 05:01 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Cost of living will go up as well as other issues that aren't going to help those people.
Cost of living is going up anyway. Why is it that when the people at the top make a few extra billion a year you are not concerned about the effect it will have on the price of a hamburger, but if we start talking about giving the working poor an extra hundred dollars a week suddenly it is a terrible thing that will drive up the cost of living?
Our economy is growing. New wealth is being created by the labor of the working poor. Yet some act like they do not do anything to "deserve" more pay even though it is their labor that is helping to create this new wealth.
The question you should be asking is why the wealthy elite "deserve" to take all the new wealth created by the labors of the working poor.
