re: Sanders-AOC backed progressive debuts federal $25 minimum wage bill

Hey guys we hate corporations!!!


Also we want to make sure no small business can survive so...

How do democrat voters not understand this makes their taxes go up?

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Where do high school kids get entry level part time jobs at 25 an hour?

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Our son is going to get his first job this summer and will be making roughly $17 an hour for being an attendant at one of our water parks. The park is a client of mine and I work directly with the revenue director. If they had to pay a minimum of $25 an hour there would be price increases everywhere. This is another insane push from the progressives meant to destroy small business owners that cannot just absorb these costs.

AI will reduce the workforce on all of those minus maybe plumbing and electricians.

Mechanics are becoming computer technicians more and more.

AI already has its “fingerprints” on all those other things and will gradually gain a grip instead of a touch.

Absolutely not. This idiot needs to be shouted down from everywhere and exposed as the absolute moron they are.

Idk about $25, but I think anywhere between $17.50 - $20.00 is a good start. At $20 dollars an hour your gross is $38,000 a year. Rent is $1000+ a month, no one can live off $7.25/hr.

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AI will reduce the workforce on all of those minus maybe plumbing and electricians.

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Any job loss in one sector will be offset by gains in another sector and by those created in new sectors that we haven't thought of yet. Maybe not instantly. There may be some lag in adaptation. There always is. 30 years ago, you couldn't find enough computer programmers. Now almost everyone has some basic programming skills even if they don't realize it.

A 50 year old with a long career isn't likely to take kindly to starting all over again, I will concede. But this is a tale as old as time.

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Idk about $25, but I think anywhere between $17.50 - $20.00 is a good start. At $20 dollars an hour your gross is $38,000 a year. Rent is $1000+ a month, no one can live off $7.25/hr.

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Pay isn’t a charity.
It’s a wage commensurate with a skill/ability.

Not a charity.

The motivation to increase skills and abilities is often a better wage.

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Idk about $25, but I think anywhere between $17.50 - $20.00 is a good start. At $20 dollars an hour your gross is $38,000 a year. Rent is $1000+ a month, no one can live off $7.25/hr.

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And within a decade of raising the min wage (maybe not that long), they STILL won't be able to live on min wage, no matter how high you raise it.

The only logical min wage is $0.00.

What do YOU make? Let's assume its 3X the current min wage. What do you think raising the min wage to $20/hr will do to YOUR purchasing power? How long do you think it will take for YOUR wages to catch up to the astronomical rise in prices? Or will you just suck it up and accept the fact that once you were worth 3X min wage, and now you're only worth 2X min wage?

People need to understand that wages are the same as prices. Wages are the price of labor. They aren't set arbitrarily in the overwhelming majority of cases. They're data driven and represent an actual value.

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Then they'll feel the wrath of every single American who currently makes more than $25/hr (which is probably most people who work).

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Median individual income is about $19.50 an hour.