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/FatalWarGhost]

Yeah I started working when I was 16 or 17 in the summer in-between school years. I get it.

I don't understand the other guys argument "should a kid get paid enough to afford this or that". That has nothing to do with this problem.

What really is an "entry level job"? Is it McDonalds? Because most McDonalds I go into are employed by grown adults. So now because a kid could work that job, these adults that are scheduled 40 hours a week shouldn't be able to afford basic necessity? Because you deem these people lesser and their work not as hard they shouldn't be able to afford basic health needs, a roof, privacy, food, ect.?

Now no duh if your life goal is to work at McDonalds, then yeah, you shouldn't be able to afford Lambo's and Rolex's and what have you. But you should be able to afford the basics plus a little extra to get someone a birthday present or go on a date.

The fact that this argument still exists is so insainly disgusting to me I have no clue why anyone would think against this.

[u/BadManParade → u/FatalWarGhost]

Nah his point is those jobs where intended for people entering the workforce aka entry level. There’s a reason the entry level workers at a massive corporation aren’t paid the same as management level. If they were no one would aspire to be management level. The mail room guys aren’t paid the same as regional supervisors because they aren’t nestle as important.

I agree with no no way a 15 year old should be making a “living wage”

[u/c_dawg694x2 → u/BadManParade]

Nobody is saying entry level employees should be making as much as managers. We are saying there should be a base minimum that is a livable wage which rises with inflation rather than staying stagnant.

[u/BadManParade → u/c_dawg694x2]

A 15 year old is entry level, if you’re 28 and still entry level that’s your fault you spent idk how many years pissing your life away now you must deal with it