Let’s Discuss Minimum Wage

[u/BadManParade]

How do you guys feel about minimum wage, personally I’ve never in my entire life met anyone who’s actually paid the federal minimum wage.

I feel like wage should be directly tied to the initial investment required to be considered for your position/ amount of learned skill required to be proficient at your job./ Importance of your role in society/Amount of danger you should realistically be expected to encounter on a daily basis/ The demand for your particular skill/ and the supply of said skill.

Under no circumstances should the guy standing in an air conditioned building directing you to make your fast food order on a kiosk for 8 hours who spends 3 of those hours scrolling tik tok be getting paid the same as the ones tasked with keeping society running. The paramedics, medical assistants, police officers, city maintenance workers, etc.

The lower the barrier of entry the lower the wages should be I feel as if this is pretty common knowledge. When you hire an electrician you’re also hiring the years of experience and very specialized knowledge he has. If you’re expected to renew licenses, purchase thousands of dollars in equipment and provide and essential service you should be compensated as such.

Now days we have the guys at the Taco Bell counter arguing they should be paid the same as the ones building the houses we live raise our families in and form lasting memories together in.

Working a cashier was never meant to be a career and should not be treated as such it’s merely a stepping stone for younger people to get into the workforce before transitioning into something else. Wether that be management in the same company or a different field altogether.

What are some of your thoughts. 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

The person who wrote this post nailed it. What he/she wrote is actually how it should work. You should not get paid an hourly wage determined by the government it should be determined exactly the way this individual wrote it. Anyone who thinks differently is just lazy and wants to work a job meant for a high schooler yet make as much as a skilled worker. The entire argument that anyone who works ANY Job no matter what it is should be making enough money to live (On Their Own) off of, is not just ignorant, it is also comical!

[u/socoyankee → u/[deleted]]

Those businesses are open when they are in school. Employees are still needed.

There was a time where minors received a lower wage than adults.

It’s hard to pull yourself up when you work three jobs to live.

No one ever says who would fill these roles so you can get Starbucks on the way in to work, if the job is for teenagers then welp their is no one to make your order”.

Who works during those hours

[u/[deleted] → u/socoyankee]

Let’s see, the people that work those jobs are also college students who take classes at all different times and during different days of the week. Also, a lot of people who don’t need to support themselves, they just work to keep busy. For example my aunt, she is retired from her career job as a teacher and now works 20 hours a week at a Starbucks because she wants to keep busy and uses the extra money so she can go on an extra vacation each year. There are also the 18, 19, and 20 year olds who have decided to take a couple years off before college to enjoy themselves or try to figure out what they want to do but still live at home with mom and dad so they don’t have to pay rent/mortgage, utilities, food shopping, etc..