WhiskyEchoTango t1_j6pb7bw wrote
Reply to comment by Its_Me_Rae in People who are conservative, why? by sia_q
The myth that there are millions of people who prefer to be on welfare when they're capable of working has been around since the Reagan administration. Real welfare reform would taper benefits as people's earnings increased. Instead, to they cut off before people can be self sustaining, and conferences don't want to raise the minimum wage to make working for a living exceed the value of benefits. A permanent underclass is required, and oh yeah, let's marginalize people who don't fit the white heteronormative narrative.
Its_Me_Rae t1_j6pd08p wrote
Raising minimum wage would make everything more expensive by increasing a businesses costs. Then people on minimum wage still wouldn't be able to afford everything they wanted. It would be really difficult for small businesses.
Minimum wages shouldn't be a comfortable career. It should be used as a stepping stone. Gain experience and some marketable job skills so you can find better pay elsewhere.
MaggieMae68 t1_j6pjkle wrote
Minimum wage was meant to be a living wage. Here's FDR's inaugural speech about minimum wage (bolding added by me):
"In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe."
WhiskyEchoTango t1_j6pfc11 wrote
It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Franklin D. Roosevelt
WhiskyEchoTango t1_j6pffwd wrote
And the ceo's pay going from $30M annually to $47M hear no visible effect of process. Lol
Its_Me_Rae t1_j6pgarq wrote
And for every one of those that did, you can list one that did the opposite. Tim Cook of Apple cut his salary by 40% this year. Not a great argument.
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