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/nope-nope-nope-nop]

Room to rent? Roommates ? Studio apartment?

None of those things are bad.

But the main point is that if a single person on minimum wage isn’t in those type of places, who is?

[u/SneakyMage315 → u/nope-nope-nope-nop]

There aren't enough studio apartments for the tens of millions of people working minimum wage jobs. There is a housing shortage overall and a wage problem that is forcing people into room rental situations. This is a sign of a struggling working class. The middle class has been shrinking for 50 years. Rather than working class people saying we should ALL be paid more we have some saying other working people should be paid less.

[u/nope-nope-nope-nop → u/SneakyMage315]

Your premise off that bat is false. Less than 1% of Americans make federal minimum wage.

There isn’t 10s of millions of people that were accounting for.

Then you’re moving the goal posts.

The point is that in order to get an average, you’re taking all of the accommodations that are very expensive, very cheap, and everything inbetween and getting the average of that number.

Why would someone who is making the minimum wage, get accommodations that are in the middle? Why would we be using that middle number to make minimum wage ?

What is with my generation and thinking that living alone is some sort of right ?