Getting an education should not just be needed to earn enough to live off. Educated people should be if you want a disposable income. Someone flipping burgers should be earning a LIVEABLE wage. Just with nothing left over.
Maccas here (Australia) pays people 15-25 bucks an hour. Yet McDonalds here is the most profitable in the world. There are more advantages then people having a liveable wage. Having happy staff also makes a massive difference. Nobody should have to be happy nor hardworking at 7 bucks an hour.
Aye mate
I know a waitress supporting herself and her kid. $900 month rent for a nice place that isn't in the ghetto so the kid gets a good education. she isn't driving a brand new car with spinners, nor has a 52 inch TV on the wall. Prioritys and work ethic, she has them. Amazing isn't it?
"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
What are you even going on about. I haven't changed anything since my initial response about your proverbial 'they'. There was no 'they' in that article, only a she.
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15AUS = 11USD pretty much what the McD's pays near me and I live in a federal minimum wage state ($7.25 / hr). Obviously I don't know the cost of living in your area. Most states have a minimum wage over the government required $7.25 / hr. Some not much higher, but there are quite a few that are in the 8 and 9 dollar range.
A made up "I know someone" response is all you have to say about what i said? Sigh. Might as well have said "nananana I can't hear you"
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15 would be for someone under 18. 20 would be about average for someone over but it varies.
Aye mate
Don't have time for a response since I am off to bed. But I just wanted to point out that a livable wage, as defined by the president who proposed it and signed it into law, stated that Minimum wage was meant to be more than just a subsistence wage as you are describing. His words are in my signature for that very reason.
If you are working to make just enough to survive and not enough to improve yourself or get a real chance to live, that isn't a livable wage, that is a subsistence wage.
So, in the words of FDR:
Any job that pays that little is surviving on a flawed business model being propped up by lax government regulation preventing them from abusing their employees and deserves to be shut down or go under in order to be replaced by another company that will perform their duties properly in regard to their workers.No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.
And on that note, I am off to bed. Good night.
Edit: I understand you were roughly on my side on this issue, so not trying to call you out or anything. Just wanted to point that one flaw out.
Since we can't call out Trolls and Bad Faith posters and the Ignore function doesn't actually ignore it. Add
"mmo-champion.com##li.postbitignored"
to your ublock or adblock filter to actually ignore ignored posters. Now just need a way to ignore responses to them as well.
"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
I'm calling bullshit on your example, why you ask? Even at say $10/hour which is above min wage pretty much anywhere in the US minus a few locations soon enough that it still comes out to $1600 a month before taxes, she pays $900 in rent? She's pays 56% of her income to rent alone, not including utilities/food/transportation and so forth. She's either working as a waitress somewhere that tips well and makes well above current minimum wage or you're full of shit. Working 40 hours a week should be enough to get by without stressing over it or working two or more jobs.
I'm sure you wait in lines and the quality is shit like the brits NHS, I've read all about people waiting days to be seen with lung infections or put on lists to have cancer removed. lovely.
Hey how do you like Al Gore's carbon taxes? Making him richer are you? I only ask because you brought up YOUR country.
here in the US the social engineers have raised several parasitic "cultures" keeping them on the voting plantation. and an entire generation of #Trigglypuffs too!
Used to be, if you wanted more than the basic ability to feed, clothe and house your family, you worked more. Now, conservatives believe you should work 3 times as hard to do those basic things just so megacorps can get even bigger by bulldozing small businesses with a government subsidized workforce.
"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
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"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown