That’s complete and utter nonsense.
This is why raising the minimum wage is important. Because since the 80′s, wages have barely raised at all, while productivity and the amount of work has. People are working insane hours, and they’re not being compensated for it. They’re being paid the same wages I was when I was a teen in the 90′s.
And while some “luxury items” have come down in price over the years, the price of living has INCREASED while our wages stay the same. My apartment which cost $500 a month in 2004 costs around $900 in 2019, yet my wages haven’t increased hardly at all. I was getting paid $7 an hour, now I’m getting paid $10. Food that once cost $5, now costs $12. Yeah, sure, maybe I can get a $20 microwave now… but what good is that if I can’t buy the food I need to live???
If productivity goes up, wages should too. If you’re working longer hours, you should get paid for it. And NOBODY should be working so many hours that they have no time for family or home life. I know people who work two 8 hour jobs a day just to have enough money to pay rent. NOBODY should be working 16 hours a day, 5 days a week, just to SURVIVE.
And that’s not even taking into account the number of ways that companies CHEAT people out of money by following the laws up to a point. For example, people who work 8 hour shifts are supposed to get a 30 minute PAID break. So what do companies do? Make you work 7 hours 55 minutes. Now you have to take two 15 minute UNPAID breaks. Less money for the employee, essentially same amount of work for the companies. Full time employees get health insurance? Schedule them to work 1 hour less than is required to give them health insurance.
And, if I may ask, what kind of uncaring asshole do you have to be to say people don’t deserve to be given a living wage? If people can’t live with this wage hike, then the wage hike wasn’t enough to compensate for inflation. Stop blaming the poor people trying to live day to day and start looking at WHY they’re so poor. It’s not because of lack of effort or skill. It’s because corporations who make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR refusing to pay them a few bucks more so they can squeeze the most out of every penny for themselves.
We’re one of the RICHEST countries in the world. We should act like it and start paying people a LIVING WAGE.
And hey, wanna know something fun? People who aren’t worried about living paycheck to paycheck are generally happier and MORE productive. When you eliminate the worry about how you’re gonna survive next week, people are more willing to work and raise the moral of those around them.
PAY PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESERVE.
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