Americans built the fucking Panama Canal, the hoover dam, and farm for half the world.
Millions of American men have lived in abject squalor, blood, and mud while fighting their nations wars.
There is nothing Americans won’t do, but unlike just-jumped-the-border-yesterday José and his closest 14 relatives, we won’t accept $3/HR and live 15 people in a two room trailer for 16 hour days, because we have a higher standard of living.
The “Americans won’t do this work” line is a half truth, what it should be is “Americans won’t do this work for the embarrassingly low wages we want to pay”
My cousins husband is conservative republican scum and I unfortunately have to be friends with him on Facebook so the more republican bullshit he posts the more I post Bernie Sanders. The silent war has begun.
If the government were to pass a law stating that every doughnut must be priced at a minimum of $11, would you support that law?
If that’s a metaphor for Bernie trying to raise the minimum wage; first that’s a terrible metaphor and If I was paid $15 an hour I wouldn’t care what the price of my food is cause I’d actually be able to pay for it. Also, I AM a minimum wage worker (who happens to work at dunkin donuts thank you very much) and trying to get by working 5 hour shifts, 2-5 days a week for only $8 an hour is very hard. I can’t move out of my parents house any time soon and I’m also trying to put myself through college. And I’m an art student non the less. So $15 an hour sounds GREAT to me. It might not to the rich ass higher ups but thats because they don’t want to share any of their $28 million income.
Thank you for the insightful perspective and erratic capitalization. It’s really great that you’re a minimum wage worker, I get it sucks because I worked a minimum wage job also, but that doesn’t excuse you from the effects of price floors. I can entirely understand your situation because I’m also a college student, though I actually want money later in life ergo I am not an art major. Let me share a little bit of my major with you.
The income of the wealthy is unrelated to your income. Your income is based off your productivity and the competition you face in the job market. So since almost anyone can work at a dunkin donuts, you won’t get paid much. You can’t reduce competition in the market but you can increase your skill and productivity. In other words, you’re not poor because someone else is rich.
So when you increase the minimum wage above the value of your labor your employer has to compensate for the higher cost. This means either cutting your hours (paying you less per week), raising their prices (leads to inflation I’ll get to that later) or firing you altogether. Employers will simply not absorb higher costs.
The associated inflation of price means your paycheck doesn’t go as far and you’re back to square one.
So really what I’m telling you, from poor college kid to poor college kid, is that you’re wrong. I can see why you’re an Art Major not an Economics Major.
Confirmed: RR no longer taking prisoners.
Berned
Burned? More like tied to a stake and a firing squad using M240s and flame throwers ended that “debate”.
Wide Spread Interests 