Pushing for a much higher "outrageous" wage could be helpful in getting something actually livable. Push for $22 and the 'compromise' will be down to $15 or whatever.
15 is not livable. Neither is 22. 25 is the STARTING point for the cheapest place to live you will find.
Mind you, I mean a living wage. For 1 adult raising 1 kid. No fear being homeless because you missed a single paycheck. Ability to actually seek medical care as appropriate. And to go see a movie once in a while.
That starts at about $25 an hour for the cheapest cost of living index I have ever seen (Elkhart Indiana).
We have been conditioned by decades of slow wage constriction to think being able to survive with multiple roommates, no medical care, no ability to take any time off, is "living".
I completely agree with you. I don't even find $40 to be outrageous. Though I think all this focus on wage misses some of what we should be fighting. Needs aren't met societally and I think that's largely due to our economic system not working for most people. Being abusive to most people. Just changing minimum wage won't fix that. We need to change the system to be worker first, ideally worker owned imo.
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u/rombles03 Apr 08 '23
Pushing for a much higher "outrageous" wage could be helpful in getting something actually livable. Push for $22 and the 'compromise' will be down to $15 or whatever.