If a business can't afford to pay it's employees a barely livable wage then it SHOULD close down or the owners can do everything themselves
I never understood this. Is it the purpose of a business to pay people a "livable wage"?
L.A. MINIMUM WAGE APPROVED FOR $15
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I never understood this. Is it the purpose of a business to pay people a "livable wage"?
idk shyt about economics so i'll take your word for it.
Are you upset? You must work a minimum wage job. Don't get mad, get bread.
Federal minimum wage has risen more than 2 dollars since 2000. Risen a lot more than that since 1970. And a lot of states have raised their minimum wages anyway. What is cali's minimum wage right now? Like 10 dollars? Foh.
If minimum wage had kept up with inflation since 1970, it would be $19 and some change right now. In other words in terms of real dollar value, minimum wage was $19+ In today's dollars BACK THEN. In other words you slow shythead, min wage has gone DOWN since 1970 in real dollar value.
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Why would you want to give a shyt about some business that pays it's employees so little that the taxpayers have to cover the rest. What purpose is a business like that really serving. In fact, I would ask you is it the purpose of the public to take care of a businesses employees for them?
Everybody mad at the little guy, and not the companies out here turning record profits, America.
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But something something small buisiness!
the name of the game is profits. Mr. I don't pay for cable.
Receipts?
Why would minimum wage need to keep up with inflation? Do you realize how much unnecessary shyt people have access to now a days vs 1970?
Why are you so angry right now? You really need that minimum wage hike don't you?
fukk everything you're talmbout. Minimum wage increase= inflation. Where do you think the companies are gonna get the extra cash to pay their employees? outta their own profit? Nah.
Jobs will be cut, housing expenses will go up to match the minimum wage, people will immigrate from other parts of the united states looking for easy work.
Only people who benefit from this are minimum wage workers. And they only benefit in the short term. In the long term shyt is gonna end up exactly the same.
What the government needs to do is create more/better jobs then train people to take those jobs. Not raise the minimum wage and lower the value of a dollar even more. Pseudo solution to a real problem. And no surprise the idiots (you) fall for it.
Go be mad
It's not about what I expect. It's about what it actually was at one point. Country was running just fine back then.
The purpose of a business- any business as far as I can tell is to earn profit. If employees of a particular business earn so little they qualify for welfare isn't proof the business pays "too little" to me. It means that's the value of their labor. But I've had this argument enough to know we won't see eye to eye.
The name of the game is to be able to live
Cot damn right I don't pay for Cable
and I can still watch everything 
If you breathing, you living.The name of the game is to be able to live
Cot damn right I don't pay for Cable
On one hand, you'll probably whine about welfare, on the other hand you don't want people to have a livable wage. shyt is ridiculous.