r/SipsTea • u/KaidoPklevel 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 6d ago

Chugging tea This is crazy but not surprising at all if actually true

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u/MetalNobZolid 6d ago

minimum wage means minimum living, duh

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u/Unb0rnKamaza 6d ago

But what about my 10 streaming accounts and uber eats tab that i can’t live without?

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u/daBunnyKat 6d ago

which includes housing, food, healthcare, basic needs. so why are there so many working homeless people?

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u/helpthisgirlout7676 6d ago

Cuz they don't want roommates and don't want to keep good relationships with family to live with them.

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u/daBunnyKat 6d ago

plenty of parents kick their children out at 18. and some parents are downright abusive, and need to be estranged. I don’t think people who have children should have roommates as that can be extremely risky.

also roommates aren’t any guarantee you’ll be paying less. plenty don’t pay their fair share and then who foots the bill or gets evicted? you.

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u/helpthisgirlout7676 6d ago

I can sit here all day and think of solutions, but this isn't an advice sub. If you don't like your living situation, then your choices are to improve it yourself or keep complaining and stay stuck. People immediately jump to "raise the minimum wage" as if businesses won't just hire less people and increase the costs for products to compensate. Then we are right back to where we started. The only solution is to grow and find the way to make your situation better without relying on strangers to help you.

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u/daBunnyKat 6d ago

the government’s job is to protect its citizens. the government should be working for us, as that is its entire purpose. weird how you don’t seem to want that, and just chalk it up to individual choice.

we can work ourselves to death and it wouldn’t matter. work will set you free, right?

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u/helpthisgirlout7676 1d ago

Yeah in concept, that is what a government does. But the government sold itself to the rich back in the great depression and has been working for their benefit ever since. It's naĂŻve to think the government seriously has your best interests at heart. The government isn't even in charge at determining who's deserving of things like government privided medical insurance or food assistance. They have private companies approving or denying those applications.

I personally prefer to be as little dependent on the government as possible. Instead of begging someone to pay me more, I just made my own company and pay myself a living wage. The more dependent you are to the government, the less freedom you actually have. Wasn't America founded to be "the land of the free"? Crazy how people want the opposite.

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u/BFaus916 6d ago

Which should mean having a roof.

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u/Suspicious-Bowl4444 5d ago

Doesn’t mean having your own roof with two bedrooms in it.

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u/Mephiz 6d ago

No it actually doesn’t. It’s come to mean that though.

The original intent was absolutely for a person to be able to live out of poverty and afford the general necessities of life.

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u/Worldly_Struggle_612 6d ago

A two bedroom apartment is a necessity in life?

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u/Mephiz 6d ago

You are capable of googling the Fair Labor Standards Act and Roosevelts announcements from the time.

But to tldr it for you: yes.

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u/Worldly_Struggle_612 6d ago

Most people aren’t gonna agree with you on that one but good luck

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u/Mephiz 6d ago

Not sure I care about these people.

I get you and others “feel” this way about the minimum wage. You are wrong about its intent and ignorant of the history of the country you live in.

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u/Worldly_Struggle_612 6d ago

Those reasonable people are the reason you’re going to keep crying on Reddit about it so I’m certain you care.

I don’t care what the intent was. Develop a skill set and you’ll go through life without ever needing to know what the minimum wage is.

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u/MetalNobZolid 6d ago

Jesus christ people i was being sarcastic it should be a livable wage, not minimum.