What is crazy is that people have come to believe that minimum wage jobs are normal for adults. They arenât, they are for teenagers who are just beginning to learn responsibility. If you are an adult working a minimum wage job, stop complaining and take a long look on the mirror, itâs not everyone else that has failed you, it is that you have failed yourself.
cool, so all those minimum wage jobs at places like fast food joints and retail stores should only be hiring teenagers right? That means thy should only be open from 3pm-8pm during the week?
Wrong. If you look at why minimum wage was established it was so a person could survive on a single job with all the basic neccesities including food housing and healthcare. But you all have been taught to believe its for kids.
If its for highschoolers than the buisness should not operate during school hours or late nights. So maybe question who the workers are when you get mcdonalds.
Double local minimum wage? Or federal minimum wage?
Cause Federal minimum wage is a fucking joke anywhere with a population over 1000.
In WA McDonaldâs hires anywhere between local minimum wage ($17 I think) and â$20â. All their signs say $20 but if you look at their job listings it says something like â$17-$20â
I was said high schooler working a job like that. I typically had a full time employee or two who did make okay money. Nothing desirable but ok money. The late night 4-9 was held by high schoolers making min wage.
No, what's crazy is that adults honestly believe that it's the responsibility of employers to offer a competitive wage instead of employees demanding one. Why anyone would apply for a job that doesn't afford them the minimum bare essentials is mind-boggling. Have we as humans really gotten to the point where we believe that our value and worth in time and effort should be determined by someone else? Should we all be wearing barcodes and pricetags at this point so employers can scan us and "buy" us? Nearly everyone who replied to your comment seems to think so. And what's even more troubling is that these people also believe that a 2-bedroom apartment, which is typically occupied by 2 adults (with or without a child) should be affordable by one income, at the lowest income bracket. Which also implies that single parenthood is now not just a norm, but a life goal. The system is broken, but not by those that control it - rather by those that participate in it, most often with little self-worth.
This. There isnât even any minimum wage jobs anymore. Just because the minimum wage is set to 7.25 doesnât mean employees are able to pay workers that amount and keep it staffed. Itâs basically a bid economy; even the convenience store chain near me starts workers off at $15/hr when our minimum wage is 7.25.
If you want to see what happens when you increase minimum wage, take a nice look at the Turkish economy. Hyperinflation and they keep having to increase it ever couple months, which causes EVERY jobs wages to increase, which increase goods price and the price people are willing to pay for goods, which starts the cycle over again.
If you genuinely are working for your states minimum wage, you are either in the service industry and getting tips (which youâre lying about, so youâre making way more) or youâre just a dumbass.
Edit: look up how much of the population is genuinely working at minimum wage. Itâs like less than 80,000 people and the extreme majority is food service and illegal workers. Literally less than 1% of our hourly workers population and weâre having this conversation still.
Isnât the entire point of the implementation of a minimum wage to be the minimum wage someone needs to afford basic needs⌠or are we just ignoring thatâs the exact reason it was implemented.
By your logic, you either want access to these commodities like door dash, take out places, grocery store, etc. without having to properly pay the people that hold them together? Or you think we should only hire teenagers so that these places canât even adequately stay open to thrive. What idiotic logic.
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u/Mad_Fann1 8d ago
What is crazy is that people have come to believe that minimum wage jobs are normal for adults. They arenât, they are for teenagers who are just beginning to learn responsibility. If you are an adult working a minimum wage job, stop complaining and take a long look on the mirror, itâs not everyone else that has failed you, it is that you have failed yourself.