re: what exactly is a living wage?

Here is a living wage calculator for baton rouge

10.35 and hr....not that much. You can go to the home page of that link and read their definition. But basically it considers minimal food, transportation and housing costs for a particular city and if you have children to support.

I thought you were hispanic?? Man this changes everything.

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You are replying to the following post: Posted by Message LSUAlum2001 what exactly is a living wage? A loaf of bread would cost $50, a gallon of milk would cost $80, and a gallon of gas would be $60. People would be screaming for a mil per year.

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That's actually pretty close to the true price of those items.

Bread is subsidized by corporate welfare for farmers and wheat production.

Dairy farmers are even bigger welfare queens.

And the oil and gas companies get a shite ton of tax breaks.

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As a single guy I calculated a $50,000 salary would be more than enough to live comfortably in the South with a nice apartment, new car, ect. But hopefully with my degree I'll make 2-3 times that lol

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I make roughly $40k/year and I have a very comfortable lifestyle, granted I am single with no kids

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A loaf of bread would cost $50, a gallon of milk would cost $80, and a gallon of gas would be $60

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That's actually pretty close to the true price of those items

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Bro. NEVER go full retard. It's a bad look.

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In some places, teachers start near 30K

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Yes we do

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I know the argument will be that they get summers off

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You damn right we do.

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get to sleep with the students

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Only the perverted ones.

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but aren't their contributions to society greater than those flipping burgers for a living? $15 an hour x 40 hrs x 50 weeks = $30K.

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I'd hope so, but I teach a computer class. I can't say that I make a huge contribution.

FWIW. I used to teach math (Geometry and Algebra 2) but I was offered an easier class with the same pay.

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I make roughly $40k/year and I have a very comfortable lifestyle, granted I am single with no kids

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Anyone without kids has no idea what a living wage could even mean.

If I was single, I could live on 20k lmao. I make ~100k, wife and kids are FN expensive.

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Yes burger flippers currently do not get $15 an hour, but that is what they're demanding the worth of their "skill set" be arbitrarily set at with a minimum wage hike. Therefore a full time fast food worker would be valued as much as someone in charge of teaching children to read or preparing teenagers for college for an entire school year. Seems ridiculous. I am not a teacher, just using them as an example.

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Managers of these restaurants easily make that. If they want $15/hr, work harder. I guarantee you most of these places struggle to find good help. They would be willing to pay someone that much if they were actually worth it.

The problem is a lot of these people become parents at a young age, out of wedlock and without a hs education. It just all goes down hill from there. But that was their choice. To be reckless.

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A living wage, is that amount of money, that if given to all the low-life motherfrickers asking for it, would decrease the value of the dollar by about 60% or more, would temporarily make other people doing OK poor, then once the economy adjusted, those people would be back in the same situation they were in before, and again protesting/begging/etc for the "right" to a living wage.

These fricking idiots don't understand that money isn't just arbitrarily distributed and that in order to make more, you need to do/be more.

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If the wealthiest people in the world would give all of their money to the poorest, in 5 years the previous wealthy people would be wealthy again, and the poor would be poor again.