Are people asking for too much now? I'm sorry but a $15 minimum wage is still too low...

[King Poetic]

All these motherfukkers asking for 15,20 dollars a hour for McDonald’s, KFC, etc...but don’t realized how those companies will end up cutting half they staff and cut their hours of operation to stay in budget

 

[BEN23]

yall keep saying they will be replaced by machines, well let them be replaced and see what happens. who's gonna buy the food, clothes or services?

 

[richaveli83]

LOL a lot of newly graduated registered nurses don't even make $30 an hour starting out at a lot of hospitals. I'm all for raising the minimum wage but some of these people are ridiculous.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

You still hate the poors

Breh I'm make $17/hr, I'm still low class I can find a higher paying job now with my experience, but I'mma go ahead and get my bachelor's. I'm hungry, ain't shyt stopping me from making money

 

[Koli_Kat]

Saying "This job is meant for teens not adults" means jackshyt if most of the people working there are adults . That means it's an adult job.

 

[aXiom]

It's so much money out here. Go to community college. Can't pay for it? Get a Pell Grant. Not the college type? Go to trade school, they start you off at $15-$18 as an apprentice. Truck drivers out here making $6k a month. Then there's IT where you studying on your own time and taking tests. I done read dudes getting certs and making $70k within one year

I keep telling folks they can go back to school for free off the Pell Grant. It's a gang of 2 year degrees that bring in guap


I only make $17, but this is entry level and I ain't flippin burgers. Bout to go back to school next year so I can quadruple that. We hungry out here, I ain't tryna be poor my entire life

Basic supply and demand breh.. Jobs pay more if there aren't enough people to fill them. They pay less when there's an over supply of bodies. What do you think the trucking sector is gonna look like in 7-10 years? IT is a mess, yes you can make that jump to $70k in 18 months, but 9/10 don't have the tenacity, and the grind the make it to that level and that's after you land your first job, not accounting for the time you needed to put in to land your first job.

Everyone upskilling and acquiring the same set of skills also lowers the pay for the that field. Not to mention there's plethora of reasons why poor people won't be able to complete these courses, why they don't have access to higher level education and why it's priced as a luxury. There are a lot more factors at play here that caused this broken system to get to this point, the minimum wage issue is just one of the areas where it's a lot easier to visualize.

Also, people saying all they have to do is x and y, because it worked for you need to be careful, with survivor bias. For every 1 of you that make it there's 9 who try and fail. If only 1 in 9 are able to transcend classes, from poverty to "not poverty" that's on the system, not the people.

 

[Will Ross]

Saying "This job is meant for teens not adults" means jackshyt if most of the people working there are adults . That means it's an adult job.

no it does not it means them adults need to
Level up.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Saying "This job is meant for teens not adults" means jackshyt if most of the people working there are adults . That means it's an adult job.

Those adults don't have motivation to move up. Mcdonald's has a lot Corporate positions that pay salary. They also offer to pay for some of your tuition for school. How many folks take advantage of that program?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Basic supply and demand. Jobs pay more if there aren't enough people to fill them. They pay less when there's an over supply of bodies.

Everyone upskilling and acquiring the same set of skills lowers the pay for the that field. Not to mention there's plethora of reasons why poor people won't be able to complete these courses, why they don't have access to higher level education and why it's priced as a luxury. There are a lot more factors at play here that caused this broken system to get to this point, the minimum wage issue is just one of the areas where it's a lot easier to visualize.

Also, people saying all they have to do is x and y, because it worked for you need to be careful, with survivor bias. For every 1 of you that make it there's 9 who try and fail. If only 1 in 9 are able to transcend classes, from poverty to "not poverty" that's on the system, not the people.

Breh higher education is easy to get to. Everything is online now, you can take classes at will anytime. And it's free You can take Certs online too. I was working full time and taking classes full time

 

[HoloGraphic]

Minimum wage isn't always a living wage.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Dudes are in here sounding like Republicans but have never picked up a Labor Economics books in their lives

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Cacs mad

They paid 100k for "higher learning"

They don't want anyone who didn't get conned to make more than them

Sad

 

[Dwolf]

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Gambling on sports is the goat

I love nevada

I pay 0 taxes .. My lil 40k in gambling tax free is the equivalent of 65k where I moved in so-ca

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Breh I'm make $17/hr, I'm still low class I can find a higher paying job now with my experience, but I'mma go ahead and get my bachelor's. I'm hungry, ain't shyt stopping me from making money

Good shyt

I made 17, bout to make 22