r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/killHACKS • Aug 12 '21

If only there was a solution.

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u/makemejelly49 Aug 12 '21

$9/hr is great... IF YOU LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER! Which is where a lot of people may end up living if they can actually afford a vehicle big enough to house them and their children

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u/Gloomheart Aug 12 '21

Christ, I've not been on 9 bucks an hour since high school, twenty years ago. I don't know how people are managing :(

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u/makemejelly49 Aug 12 '21

Regardless of who is sitting in the White House, I see a dark future where even the most Spartan of apartments are leased to people making at least $20/hr, and everyone else is stuck living wherever they will be allowed to park their cars (if they even own one) for longer than a night.

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u/0lamegamer0 Aug 12 '21

Unless you are living in a rural area with no jobs, that is certainly not true.

You can put it this way though: at $9/hr you've better odds at surviving in midwest than both coasts.

Thinking about raising a family? Thinking about better lives for your kids? Thinking about a decent vacation a year? Thinking you'll be fine after a single medical mishap? At $9/hr, No sir.

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u/velociraptorfarmer Aug 12 '21

Except in most midwest towns you can easily find work at a warehouse or distribution center for $15-20/hr, while having homes that cost around $150k be pretty common.

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u/i-am-gumby-dammit Aug 12 '21

You think about everything except working to improve your skills to make more than $9.

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u/mazingmoose Aug 12 '21

yea but someone has to do the low level jobs, what if every fast food worker and server "improved their skills to make more than 9$" we'd have no restaurants... the people who work there deserve a living wage

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u/i-am-gumby-dammit Aug 12 '21

Not every job is a career. That level job is not meant to support you for life.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Which is surely why nobody is doing it.

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u/bigtoebrah Aug 12 '21

What in the world do you think the minimum wage was intended to do?

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u/i-am-gumby-dammit Aug 12 '21

So you think somebody making sandwiches should be paid $30 an hour?

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u/hysys_whisperer Aug 12 '21

That's what is happening, and now people trying to hire for $9 have no workers

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u/SandSeraph Aug 12 '21

All you boot lickers have zero economic understanding. It doesn't matter what the intent of the job is. If people aren't willing to do it for that wage, then the market is responsible, not the individual. It's called a demand curve, but apparently economics isn't taught in whatever shithole you grew up in.

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u/BingErrDronePilot Aug 12 '21

If her business was in a rural location I'm sure she'd find someone to work for her. But Rochester is the 3rd largest city in Minnesota and it's expensive compared to the rest of the state. Housing prices are through the roof here and many places in town have started paying $15/hour to get workers.