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$15 is a start. How about $20 and adjusted to inflation yearly?
It's actually more like $25-30 now since we've been having this bullshit "conversation" for so long.
You're right, $23 is what I usually use and rounded, and that's an old number probably based on my own experience of when the minimum was okay. Looking back, even your range may be too low, as production began to outpace wages in the early 70s, making a comparable matching minimum close to $40.
In the end it's about a wage being livable, whatever that needs to be. And it probably shouldn't be a per hour number, as a company forced to pay per hour an amount can easily just reduce hours, defeating the point. Some sort of universal basic income, so wages become a supplement and not slavery? We have to change somehow.
“But you clearly deserve more than $15 an hour. What do you do, what do you deserve to earn, and why?”
But if you ask them if someone deserves a million dollars per hour for shitposting on Twitter they look at you like you just burned an effigy in their front lawn. Not the brightest bunch
The common argument for why 16 year olds flipping burgers shouldn't make $15 / hr is that they don't have the same expenses as an adult, so they don't need that much, and it's so fucking wild to me that they'd use that. Clearly what you need doesn't factor into what people are paid in any other circumstance, otherwise the top 0.1% would be middle class, too. So why does it suddenly matter for that one specific demographic?
Dare I say it's totally fucking Marxist and anti-American to suggest that people be paid for their labor based on financial need? This also makes boomers have a meltdown
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I shitpost on Lemmy; what do I get?
A hard time?
Correct!
Show me how you convince someone making $40k that someone making $400k: 1. isn't rich. And 2 shares their class struggle.
The fact is they don't and they'll never see it that way.
You can say you're fighting billionaires all you want but what ppl see is you're trying to fight 350k makers which they could be some day.
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Gross income, roughly for a 35-40h workweek
$7.25? Woof. I made that back at a grocery store 20 years ago.
I'll take €1,969 and look out on the Mediterranean.
Some of those 7.25s will technically be even lower, that's the federal minimum that will apply to pretty much all jobs, but they still have it on the books that if they could, they'd fuck you over even harder. Georgia's for instance is 5.15 which can come up in some niche circumstances, and some don't even have a listed minimum
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