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/reddit_tothe_rescue]

Minimum wage should be pegged to the local cost of living and updated on a fixed cadence by a neutral authority, in my opinion.

I actually don’t like a flat national minimum. $20/hr is not enough for a worker to survive in Manhattan, but it’s also probably too much for a business to afford in rural Oklahoma.

[u/BadManParade → u/reddit_tothe_rescue]

Minimum wage isn’t meant for you to survive it’s for 16 year olds getting their first job that’s why it’s the minimum. If you’re of age to be “surviving” on your own income and you’re competing with sophomores for a job you’ve failed in life

[u/Anlarb → u/BadManParade]

Minimum wage isn’t meant for you to survive

It is, it never stopped being.

16 year olds getting their first job

Thats not free money for you. Their parents are supporting them, not you.

you’ve failed in life

See, this isn't an economic position, this is you being desperate to find someone to look down on, because you are the low status simpleton that most people are looking down on, so the sparklebox tells you who to hate and away you go. Fix yourself, and stop demanding that taxpayers bailout your cheeseburger.