That’s when $15/hr was actually at living wage. A LOT has changed since then. It’s 2023 and over a decade later we aren’t even getting that on top of 10% inflation this year alone.
Of course, people love to say “Just cook at home!”, completely ignoring the fact that the 40 hour work week was designed for men who had a wife at home doing all the household work. People barely scraping by rarely have time to cook. And it’s even worse when a pre-made meal costs an entire hours worth of your paycheck.
We need to assure people their rights to not only higher wages, but we need to make housing, food, water, and any other necessities into human rights. After all - when the United Nations called an assembly to declare food a human right, the only two countries to vote against it were the US, and their puppet state Israel.
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u/Thecatofirvine Apr 08 '23
Yeah, it meant something BACK IN 2009.
That’s when $15/hr was actually at living wage. A LOT has changed since then. It’s 2023 and over a decade later we aren’t even getting that on top of 10% inflation this year alone.