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Here's your order | CONSIDER THE MESSAGE CA GOVERNOR NEWSOME IS SENDING; YOUR FIRST JOB GETTING PAID MINIMUM WAGE SHOULD BE YOUR LIFE-LONG CAREER WITH A "LIVABLE" WAGE | image tagged in here's your order | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
317 views 22 upvotes Made by ToneDef 6 months ago in politics
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2 ups, 6mo,
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Holy crud! Go ahead people . . . keep voting for these insane leftist politicians and see how your life -- or those of your children -- ends up.
0 ups, 6mo
I don’t know man… I’m pretty happy with my life! A Californian proud, with protection against LGBTQ hate crimes and police that don’t shoot when they see a person breathing a word against police brutality… seems pretty good to me!
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Imagine being unhinged that you think someone working 40’hours a week hasn’t earned the right to eat healthy and not be homeless.

Especially since the fed min wage hasn’t been a living wage for over a generation.
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The Federal minimum wage is not a "living" wage. It is the minimum that part-time workers with no experience or qualifications whatsoever will get paid. Even at a teenager working part-time at any fast food chain will get raises, typically after a training period or bi-annually as they gain more experience. Remember, every McDonald's manager used to be the cashier or making burgers in the back, they all worked they way up to management.
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Also…as someone who worked in fast food as a teenager and hi end dining…no you don’t get an increase wage after training and certainly don’t get raises twice a year unless it’s a market adjustment.

And though that was long ago my last roommate a year ago worked for McDonald’s..after training hours were cut to under 10 a week with no wage increase.
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Nope fake news FDR on establishment of a federal min wage:

“Before his presidency began, Roosevelt was deeply concerned with what he saw as the diminishing purchasing power of the "forgotten man," low-income farm and factory workers who were economically devastated by the Great Depression. Among other labor policy proposals like the standard forty-hour workweek, Roosevelt sought to restore this purchasing power through increased wages, which he hoped would spur additional spending and economic growth to help cover the increased cost of labor. Ultimately, he hoped to mandate that all workers would be paid "living wages" as described in his 1933 speech on the National Industrial Recovery Act, "It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white-collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."

A segment of his speech regarding 1933 N.I.R act.
“Today, you and I are pledged to take further steps to reduce the lag in the purchasing power of industrial workers and to strengthen and stabilize the markets for the farmers' products... Our nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work... All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.”

https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/blog/posts/what-did-fdr-mean-by-a-living-wage.htm
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Minimum wage laws are the greatest weapon in the arsenal of racists. (Dr. Walter Williams)
1 up, 6mo
Companies don't do raises anymore. Time worked for a company does not get you raises. A person who has been with a company 15 years typically makes the same as a new hire. Working your way up isn't much help, it nets you maybe 50 cents to a dollar per hour. Unless you get salary. Which just means you work 12+ hour days and ends up at about the same amount per hour.
A large part of the problem is technology (and culture change) has rendered many jobs obsolete. If a job isn't automated, it is often outsourced.
Think of the last several times you called customer service for any company. We're you even able to get ahold of a human? If you did, did you highly suspect they weren't in the U.S.? That used to be a fair paying U.S. job.
Admittedly, raising the fast food wage isn't going to solve that. I think so much legislation is focused on fast food because food preparation is hard to automate (they have automated most of the cashiers) and cannot be outsourced for obvious reasons. I'm not going to pretend I know the solution. But we have to acknowledge that traditional wisdom about jobs and careers just doesn't hold up anymore. The landscape is unrecognizable compared to 20, or even just 10 years ago.
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