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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus on “Take a Stand: Minimum wage is too low”
“Um - what about them? (undocumented workers)…And what does that have to do with whether increasing the minimum wage costs jobs?”
You’re the one who claims that the drop in the number of minimum wage earners is somehow significant to the debate on whether there should be one, or that it should be raised. I merely pointed out why your little statistic is actually irrelevant.
“Someone who’s guaranteed some obscenity like a ‘living wage’ doesn’t have much incentive to finish school, get training, build work experience, or otherwise better themselves, now do they?”
No one is “guaranteed” a living wage– they still have to show up and do the job, for which they should get paid a living wage, assuming the company is required to pay one in exchange for a tax abatement, or to get government contracts, etc., which in Lawrence is currently calculated at around $10.50 an hour. I think anybody with half a brain realizes that the vast majority of workers, especially young, talented ones, are not going to be satisfied with that wage the rest of their lives. BTW, a “living wage” does not equal “minimum wage.” But given your overall weak, but mean-spirited arguments, I understand why you want to change the subject.
“Wow, *only* $20/hr? *Only* $40K/year? Do you even read, let alone think, before you post? There are people with Masters degrees working in professional positions that make less, bozo. “
Last time I looked, no university gives any graduate, with any degree, a guaranteed level of income. Not every waiter (even one with a master’s degree) is going to make $40K a year, even if they do get minimum wage plus tips. Those that do will have to work their a$$es off to accomplish it. So I repeat, if you can’t afford to pay for that level of service, eat at home. You have no god-given right to eat out at someone else’s expense.
“It would be really nice if those in favor of increasing the minimum wage could construct an argument without the inclusion of blatant class envy.”
You’re the one who obviously favors exploitation of employees, which is, by definition, class warfare.
“The technology of which you spoke, that of the workplace, was not designed to make work easier on the employees, but to replace them and therefore cut costs. “
If plantation slavery were reinstated today, southern farmers would not give up all their machinery in favor of the free labor of slaves. Raising the minimum wage will have zero effect on the further advancement of technology in the work place. And displaced workers will be a problem as long as that happens, regardless of living wages, minimum wages, etc.
Posted by just_another_bozo_on_this_bus on April 27 at 5:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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