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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Its best to speak percentages when speaking about matters like this. Its whole 25% increase. Pretty huge.
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Well if you pay someone one cent an hour and give them a one cent raise then that's a 100% raise. But it's still only two pennies an hour. $8 an hour is a very low wage these days. As is $10 an hour. Over three years it's 67 cents a year added. But at 3% inflation 24 cents of that is ate up by inflation. And I'd have to read the article again but didn't they say the last raise in the minimum wage in CA was back in 2007 or 2008? Six years at 24 cents each would be $1.44 right there just for inflation. But it's not even being raised the full $2 until 2016. So 9 years @ 24 cents equals $2.16. So if they are raising it only $2 then that isn't even keeping up with inflation!
For the people who say that "fast food jobs" and the like aren't worth anything and that all the people in these jobs are "losers" I think you are wrong. What makes them losers really other than the rate they are being paid? Think about it. In the 50s and 60s often these jobs were pretty respectable. For example there was no shame at all in being a clerk for Sears. And from what I understand it meant a middle class life. The same for working in a diner as a cook or waitress. All that happened was over time we made it so these jobs paid lower class wages and with that we started looking down upon the people performing them. It seems that is prerequisite for justifying the low wages.
Anyway It seems as if some people can only feel better about themselves when they put down others.