just hire us and pay us fairly

People often tend to forget that very few companies are like amazon and walmart.

Take a local pizza store.
1. If your pizza delivery driver and all other staff require (for eg) $35 an hour with bi-monthly increases..
2. and all the staff in all the companies who create, package, sell and deliver all the pizza ingredients, all other items, utilities etc need the same..
3. Then your pizza is going to cost $60
4. But if people don't buy the pizzas at the same rate as when they were $10, a whole bunch of people are about to be laid off and stores are going to close down

So obviously when it comes to rectiying costs, there's a hard limit on the idea of 'just pay more'.
At some point the issue has to be resolved from the OPPOSITE direction, where the cost of living has to be reduced.

Now...how do we fix that? well there's a whole bunch of regulations, taxes, policies and government interventions/actions that drove most of that up... but unfortunately one side of the political spectrum considers this reality off limits and puts the entire onus on people who own hairdressers...

Congratulations. You are the only one who offered an intelligent and thoughtful comment.

To be fair the topic shows up quite a lot (and the left, at least on imgflip universally refuse to even acknowledge the responses and just keep repeating the memes over and over) which is why not many people actually commented.

Just for the mere existence of living in a tiny house, going to and from work, coming home and watching netflix and then going to sleep can yield literally tens of thousands of dollars a year in bills, gas, taxes, rent, food etc etc...
Theres a very severe problem with this picture ad unfortunately most of it happens before we even look at the paycheck.

Cost of housing is the no.1 issue in the picture and almost all of the issue is government related due to a long history of both preventing housing being built and artificially driving up the 'demand' but keeping the 'supply' too low.

I mean if I try to build a house on 100 pieces of land
> no permits allowed for 95 of them
> high cost due to competition for the remaining 5
> Obligatory expensive build design to match the local houses built 70 years earlier
> hundreds of building regulations the local houses never had
> high taxes on material and labor the local houses never had
> high material cost the local houses never had
> So now building an identical house to the local ones is more expensive than just buying one.
> government brings in more people who need houses
> House costs keep going up
> houses become investment
> people buy and rent out
> rent has to cover mortgage
> Nobody can afford rent or mortgages
> Housing is the primary cause for 'cost of living budget'
> Employment doesn't cover basic costs

ergo, the government is the true central cause of the issue in the meme

Define livable wage

That's the neat part - they can't.

Or don’t get a job and live off your aging parents. If that fails you can live off the government, I mean the tax payers.