Which is precisely why Zohran is necessary.
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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When are we going to stop caring about human rights and start caring about billionaires???
Are Americans aware of what "minimal wage" means? I'm starting to have some doubts.
In short, no. No we don't. Please send help.
A lot of people don't believe jobs should make a living wage. They argue that if you want to make enough money to survive, you should get an education or work your way up out of entry level, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they've made education wildly expensive and that minimum wage is so outdated that in some places you can make double or triple minimum wage and still not be considered making enough to survive as a single adult with no dependents (I make over 3x minimum wage and rent on a small 1 bedroom apartment is over half my paycheck, if I don't work OT shifts I don't go grocery shopping that month). They also like to complain that no one wants to work anymore. My personal take is that if a job is worthwhile enough to society that someone needs to do it, that person deserves to make enough to survive, but apparently that's a wildly socialist take in this country.
No we literally do not.
It is pretty much impossible to afford a studio apartment almost anywhere in the country with a full time, min wage job.
Our guidelines for what counts as poverty are a total joke.
I live off of about 24k a year while I am recovering from a bunch of injuries, and most states do not consider that poor enough to qualify for pretty much any assistance.
We also just gutted Section 8, so basically about 5 to 10 million people are gonna become homeless by the end of the year.
There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.
Adams is dumb enough to do it too, even though that's just going to make more people switch to Mamdani
Maybe he'll get free delivery out of it.
Guess they don't have what it takes to stay in business.
Maybe they could get better at it.
No no no!
We need food deserts and just barely not literally slave labor wages!
How else could Instacart generate profits for billionaires?
Think of the yachts that will never be laid down, you sick, sick bastards!