• @BossDj@lemm.ee
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    -125 months ago

    Less than 2% of the population is making minimum wage. Median income is more than double minimum wage. Even in rural areas

    I agree it’s not enough, should be raised and all that, but it’s not the reality (because that number is so ridiculous)

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      5 months ago

      I agree it’s not enough

      shrugs

      5.1% of $14 is 70 cents an hour. $28 bucks a week.

      Don’t spend it all in one place.

      This economy is objectively atrocious for working people. I’m glad we can connect on the fact that it is most definitely not enough.

      • This seems like an unnecessary debate, because it’s the wrong metric for “fair” pay.

        I think the better metric is something like average employee pay ratio to C-suite pay, or something calculated compared to the stock market value, like market capitalization.

        Because the biggest problem is that absolute and year-to-year value created by increased productivity is going to the bosses and owners at an unfairly disproportionate rate.

        • FlashMobOfOne
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          45 months ago

          Agreed.

          The only upside in this economy is that it’s so bad, and there’s so little leadership for workers at the federal level, that it’s forced unions to become stronger by necessity.

        • FlashMobOfOne
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          On wages, exactly.

          A small percent of a poverty wage is objectively worth criticism, if we’re putting it nicely. If we want to talk in percentages, you’d need a 400% increase on the minimum wage in Mississippi to get to a living wage.

          That’s why I’m criticizing this reply.

          • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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            -25 months ago

            Sorry but I’m criticizing your initial reply to the fact that wage increases are statistically high. Yes, 70 cents raise is a lot for a grocery worker. And it’s especially important, as OP said, when compared to the rest of the world US is rising faster.

            The “2/3 of states” reply, while factual, was misleading as well as tangential to the original point you were replying to.

            Idealism has an important place, but not when it results in pure cynicism

        • capital
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          45 months ago

          You get that a lot on Lemmy in regards to these topics.

          They really don’t like it when you compare them to conservatives denying covid.

          Anecdotal evidence is trash except when it’s their anecdotes. Then it’s second to none.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            65 months ago

            And you will keep being a pedant about it and just ignore that those extra pennies, just like the 5.1% referenced earlier in the thread, don’t add up to anything when you’re not being paid a living wage to begin with.

            What I don’t understand is why you’re angrier with me than you are at Democrats and Republicans.

    • More than double is still woefully inadequate. A study from over a decade ago showed that people need to make an average of $75,000 a year to get by in America, it’s more now.