Now The Fight For $20/hr?

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(07-24-2019, 01:59 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I think there would be a whole lot more traction with these movements if they stopped pushing for the Federal minimum wage to be raised and just worried about their City/State. Worry about your own shit rather than trying to force your standard upon the rest of the country, and it'd probably go a lot better.

$20/hr is $38,400/yr at minimum wage. 

$38,400/yr in Cincinnati has the same cost of living power as $87,400 in Seattle. Can you imagine if Seattle had to pay a minimum wage of $87,400 to everyone? Flipping burgers at a local fast food place? $87,400/yr. Bagging groceries? $87,400/yr. That's even comparing a city vs a city. Imagine somewhere rural.

That's why the Federal minimum needs to stay as a low baseline, and places more expensive to live should adjust accordingly, which is well within their power to do without forcing it upon everyone else. Some states are just significantly cheaper to live in than others. Maybe this is just a sign that they need to stop crowding into a handful of states that they can't afford to live in, and do what any normal rational person did in the past and move to somewhere they could rather than trying to put a square peg in a round hole by trying to live in a trendy place you can't afford, thus compounding the problem for anyone else who also wants to live there.

Besides, it took only 7 years to go from a fight for $15 to a fight for $20. At this pace we'll be at a fight for $30 by 2033. At that point just start using Monopoly money, or some Venezuelan Bolivar.

Their argument is that $15 should be the lowest baseline and areas with a higher cost of living would go above it. 

I'm on the fence with $15, but there's no reason why $10 shouldn't be the minimum across the nation.