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Originally Posted by LightscapeMedia
Again.. you seem to not understand basic economics. Forcing companies to raise low skilled wages will DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the low skilled wage earner. Everyone else's wage will go up proportionally and in turn prices of goods and services will as well.
If the burger flipper is making $30/hr, then his manager's salary would go up as well.. And so will everyone else's. You guys don't seem to understand that money is simply a measure based on productivity and has no real value.
There's a reason these jobs pay what they do. They're easy to replace. Again simple supply and demand. There are millions who can be a greeter at Wal Mart. There are far less who can manage the greeters and therefore they earn more, and so on.
Again.. think you're worth more than you're making.. Prove it! Prove your value to the company. Prove that YOU can't easily be replaced.
It really is a simple as that.
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If the min wage went up $2 you'd have a whole shit ton of people spending that increase putting it back into the economy. Instead these people rely on the government WHICH WE PAY FOR and these corporations just retain the profits.
As a conservative Id think you would be for people making enough to survive on their own versus us getting taxed more to help these welfarees survive. Either we pay them or the corporations pay them and I'd rather corporations paid them cause it's their fucking business, not mine.
When adjusted for inflation the minimum wage is some of the lowest it's been. In the 70s when adjusted for today's dollars it would be over $10 an hr.
When you live pay check to pay check and have a family it's awfully hard to get a leg up or whatever when all your time and money is taken up already