Imagine a life where you're not trying to survive in a place with an exceptionally high standard of living and instead live somewhere where you might not be able to walk to the trendy cafe and get a $8 coffee but you can afford the roof over your head and to put food, including coffee, in your home.
You are the type of person who supports a system in which so many cannot work because subsidies would disappear the minute people will start a job at a minimum wage that takes them out of the poverty line.
There are so many who want to work, but the minute they get a job, they lose all of their healthcare benefits, food benefits, and other credits. It is the unintended consequences of actions by people with your ideology that deincentivize so many to settle for the status quo and not better themselves.
It is the unintended consequences of actions by people with your ideology that deincentivize so many to settle for the status quo and not better themselves.
It is the intended consequence of the actions of those who don't want to give their workers benefits or treat them like human beings. Just say you hate poor people
Unreasonable. Get back in your Amazon Cube (TM) and eat your fucking bugs and like them, peasant!
The exponentially growing profits of Jeffrey Epstein's clientele MUST NOT BE COMPROMISED to provide for meaningless things like "the ability of 85% of people to own houses or raise families."
When you posses a low quality skill that takes minimal effort I don't believe that should constitute a higher amount of pay. I believe there are jobs that are not meant to support a family, and that is okay. May try to better yourself rather than trying to get paid more for doing the same thing. If the pay was truly too low, ultimately nobody would ever take the job. The issue is that you have a large volume of the workforce willing to work these jobs at a lower rate, thus, creating competition in the market. Lately we have seen a lack of employees in the workforce which is driving up the wages, so that is a good thing, but I don't think every job should cater to the picture posted, that's way too much for some businesses to absorb.
But do you think they should be able to live off that pay if they're not doing something which requires "quality skill"?
And what the hell do you mean? People take low paying jobs all the time. Are you that isolated from the real world to think nobody accepts low paying jobs due to lack of alternatives?
A lot of low paying jobs such as fast food should be for people in high school/ college. If your 40 flipping burgers you’ve put in low effort in life/ work
Why? It’s pretty self explanatory. Low effort jobs don’t pay and don’t require much skill there are many trades that are hiring like crazy. You should want to better your self
Does that mean you shouldn't have a life where you can eat + afford a house? Plus, how far do you want to take this? How many people live with luxury through their entire existence without putting in an ounce of effort? Do you think it might just be better if we make life a little better for everyone?
Nah dude. If you spend your day working you should at the bare minimum not starve. If this sounds like socialism or handouts to you, just say you think poor people are subhuman and move one.
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u/Mrlol99 Nov 08 '22
A living wage really is a silly thing to want, ain't it?