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Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot of money?
Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot of money?
Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot of money?
Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot of money?
Let's not draw generalizations. Some people who work minimum wage have college degrees, and simply can't apply said degree in the local area. Others have been laid off, forced to work minimum wage to support their family until they find another job opportunity. Some have families who cannot afford to pay for college, and are stuck working minimum wage for several years just to make enough to get started. Others are kicked out of the house by their parents, find themselves with no financial backing for college, and work minimum wage as the only source of income for subsistence. Some work minimum wage because they enjoy the job, very rare, yes. How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"? Asides from assigning the pejorative to them due to the futility of their struggle.No, but it's not supposed to be. Minimum wage is supposed to be the lowest-end jobs, designed to give high school and college kids who have no real financial responsibilities, the ability to learn a work ethic and gain job skills so they can be promoted to better jobs down the line. They are not intended to raise a family on and anyone who tries to do so is a complete idiot.
Let's not draw generalizations. Some people who work minimum wage have college degrees, and simply can't apply said degree in the local area. Others have been laid off, forced to work minimum wage to support their family until they find another job opportunity. Some have families who cannot afford to pay for college, and are stuck working minimum wage for several years just to make enough to get started. Others are kicked out of the house by their parents, find themselves with no financial backing for college, and work minimum wage as the only source of income for subsistence. Some work minimum wage because they enjoy the job, very rare, yes. How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"? Asides from assigning the pejorative to them due to the futility of their struggle.
no, but it was never intended for people to start families and live off of. People that have kids while working minimum wage jobs are the idiots.
many of these kids might already have college degrees but cannot find employment because there are no openings.
How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"?
No, but it's not supposed to be. Minimum wage is supposed to be the lowest-end jobs, designed to give high school and college kids who have no real financial responsibilities, the ability to learn a work ethic and gain job skills so they can be promoted to better jobs down the line. They are not intended to raise a family on and anyone who tries to do so is a complete idiot.
Let's not draw generalizations. Some people who work minimum wage have college degrees, and simply can't apply said degree in the local area. Others have been laid off, forced to work minimum wage to support their family until they find another job opportunity. Some have families who cannot afford to pay for college, and are stuck working minimum wage for several years just to make enough to get started. Others are kicked out of the house by their parents, find themselves with no financial backing for college, and work minimum wage as the only source of income for subsistence. Some work minimum wage because they enjoy the job, very rare, yes. How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"? Asides from assigning the pejorative to them due to the futility of their struggle.
Let's not draw generalizations. Some people who work minimum wage have college degrees, and simply can't apply said degree in the local area. Others have been laid off, forced to work minimum wage to support their family until they find another job opportunity. Some have families who cannot afford to pay for college, and are stuck working minimum wage for several years just to make enough to get started. Others are kicked out of the house by their parents, find themselves with no financial backing for college, and work minimum wage as the only source of income for subsistence. Some work minimum wage because they enjoy the job, very rare, yes. How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"? Asides from assigning the pejorative to them due to the futility of their struggle.
What a complete load of horse ****. I often see that lie posted by minimum wage opponents. So I did some looking around.
Minimum wage | LII / Legal Information Institute
The national minimum wage was created by Congress under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1938. Congress enacted this legislation under its Constitutional grant of authority to regulate interstate commerce. FLSA was a comprehensive federal scheme which provided for minimum wages, overtime pay, record keeping requirements, and child labor regulations. The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees. Others have argued that the primary purpose was to aid the lowest paid of the nation's working population, those who lacked sufficient bargaining power to secure for themselves a minimum subsistence wage.
No, but it's not supposed to be. Minimum wage is supposed to be the lowest-end jobs, designed to give high school and college kids who have no real financial responsibilities, the ability to learn a work ethic and gain job skills so they can be promoted to better jobs down the line. They are not intended to raise a family on and anyone who tries to do so is a complete idiot.
Anybody who is out of touch with reality is an idiot.
anyone who has a degree and has settled for a minimum wage job while trying to raise a family is, well, and idiot.
Accepting a minimum wage job but then adopting the opinion that it should, for some reason, pay well enough to earn a living and raise a family… also idiotic.
People that have kids while working minimum wage jobs are the idiots.
They are not intended to raise a family on and anyone who tries to do so is a complete idiot.
I believe minimum wage in AMERICA is very little money, and we should ask WHY - the cost of everything due to enslavement of the nation by liberals as much as conservatives - in some countries you can live on a minimum wage like a king, and certain class of billionaires are creating these situations so they can profit from the poor.Assuming a 40 hour work week, is minimum wage a lot of money?
News Flash to all idiots
When people are given the choice between earning $15,080 per year and $50,000 per year will choose the job paying $50,000 per year. Also nobody has a crystal ball. It is possible to make $50,000 for 10 years and then get laid off because the company closed. Making $0 instead of $15,080 just to avoid being labelled an idiot by Cephus, Ocean515, Neomalthusian or Rocket man would be a poor decision.
News Flash to all idiots
Certainly, as is anyone who doesn't think they need to be personally and financially responsible for their own lives. We need to live in the real world in a self-sustaining system, regardless of what makes people feel good.
Let's not draw generalizations. Some people who work minimum wage have college degrees, and simply can't apply said degree in the local area. Others have been laid off, forced to work minimum wage to support their family until they find another job opportunity. Some have families who cannot afford to pay for college, and are stuck working minimum wage for several years just to make enough to get started. Others are kicked out of the house by their parents, find themselves with no financial backing for college, and work minimum wage as the only source of income for subsistence. Some work minimum wage because they enjoy the job, very rare, yes. How is anyone trying to raise a family on minimum wage an "idiot"? Asides from assigning the pejorative to them due to the futility of their struggle.
I have no sympathy for fry cooks with liberal arts degrees. They deserve the hellish, abject poverty they get.
Where did any of that alter what I said? Nowhere in there does it mention a living wage. .
Come on, you're supposed to be a conservative, that means you're supposed to support personal responsibility for one's actions. I just don't see that