Roger Marshall’s tiny brain would be able to comprehend such complex maths.
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Completely out of touch.
I’ve been seeing all kinds of hilarious takes as to why the federal minimum shouldn’t go up.
“What if I want to live on less?”
Cool. Donate everything over 7.25
“1.4 million jobs lost”
175 million people get a raise. 42% of all workers in the US make less than 15. 1.5 million of those are currently at the minimum.
“Cost of living will go up”
Cost of living goes up anyway. If there were direct correlations between MW and CoL it should have frozen or slowed down over the past decade. There’s also a 20 year period in the 60s to the 80s where MW rose every year.
“Hypothetical mom n pop will fail”
Mom n pop shouldn’t be paying starvation wages. Exploitative practices aren’t a good cornerstone for a business model. If that’s what’s going to get you to fail, coming up to a minimum standard of living, then your business deserves to flop.
There’s not much difference between that and me deciding to start a new business that only works if I can run a sweat shop out of my basement.
And not only all of that, it’s the federal minimum. Your state can choose to pay less. 2 states off the top of my head that are currently below the minimum are Wyoming and Georgia
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I disagree with this one. Mom n Pops don’t generally have the foot traffic to support the higher wages. It’s not slave labor it’s what a lot of them can afford (not all, but a lot.) In fact this is my employer exactly. They pay the state Min and it works fine enough for me at the moment but I also know he would pay me more if he could afford it but he can’t. This is especially prevalent in rural areas where mom and pop already struggle to compete with Wal-Mart.
I get what your trying to say and generally agree with you hut some of these points is missing the forest for the trees. When most of the small business mea are gone and all you have left are Wal-Mart and Target you’re gonna be asking “But why?”
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I think it’s definitely slave wages. Without getting too deep into your finances, and in a non rhetorical line of questioning, are you pretty much forced to work there? Are there other options available?
And I know it’s a harsh reality to confront but Walmart and Target have been toppling small business for years, and will definitely continue to do so.
The issue there is more to do with cooperate power in this country. Being priced out of labor doesn’t help, but they are being forced out either way
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I could work somewhere else but they pay the same and are a big Corp so they aren’t going to give even a fraction of the fucks about me my current boss does. My current boss understands my medical issues and how they give me trouble and he cuts me the slack needed to deal with it. I had to beg, FUCKING BEG JCPenny not to fire me over my health issues and how they sometimes get in the way of my life, including work.
So I could go somewhere else and make the same amount and get treated far less humanely in the process. You guys get so fixated on money you forget that all the small shops closing means we all becomes legit slaves to the big Corperate monster that doesn’t give one single fuck if you live or die.
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That’s a fair point. But please understand that you are in extremely unique circumstance.
What happens in another 5 to 10 years if there is no increase and your boss is forced to close anyway? CoL won’t have stopped.
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Then at least I got 5-10 years more of quality employment before I was forced back into the corperate machine I guess. You’re kind of asking me “We’ll you’re gonna be fucked in 5 to 10 years anyway so why wait?”
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Lol. No. My point is that you will have cost yourself 5 to 10 years of a higher standard of living from a financial standpoint.
This may mean less to you as one of the few people in the 42% of all workers under 15 an hour, where money isn’t your main concern
Why would you assume my standard of living is going to increase? 15 above what I currently make isn’t very much. You are making a big assumption here. A raise to 15 dollars doesn’t actually help me very much. It’s only a dollar or 2 more then I currently make. That’s not much of a help bro. Its not going to change my living situation in any significant degree. My job closing and having to go back to working for a big souless corperation tho will have a huge inpact on my living and mental health.
Yea I have lots of concerns beyond money so I don’t really know why you are trying to boil it down to just money. Big part of the problem with the whole wage conversation, it’s a much bigger issue then just raising wages across the board. It going to hurt a number of people even if it helps a good deal of others. I’m glad it will help others and that’s a good thing but it’s important to make sure we don’t fuck over a whole bunch of other people, or make the situation worse then it already is and being callous about Mom and Pop shops closing so we can all go be Wal-Mart Greeters is a huge mistake imo.
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Someone employed by industry specifically to break up unions, often illegally.
Historically inclusive of having the union organizers murdered.
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Thanks. Will do more research on it when I get home.
Sounds like Pinkerton work.
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The GameSpot spin in that headline, lol. 
The only piece they tied that together, to come that that conclusion.
“Semiconductors play a critical role in enabling the products and services that fuel our economy, contribute to American innovation, and enhance our national security,” the groups said in a letter to the president last week. “Given the central role of semiconductors, strengthening the US position in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing is a national priority.”
Trump’s China tech war backfires on automakers as chips run short | Reuters
Not sure if they’ll go back to the TPP that Trump killed, since that was trying to get the U.S. and other countries dependency off manufacturing in China?
Pinkertons were a prime example.
There’s a local shopping center I go to that’s s located on the site of a steel mill the Pinkertons literally laid siege to in order to bust a union.
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SCOTUS puts in the final nail in the law suits
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