get with the program

and to learn which side of the numbers the currency symbol belongs

Why?

Give us three good reasons why you believe this.

Should a minimum wage job be a full time career?

No.

I'm waaaay too long-winded. In a few short words, you brilliantly summed up what I was trying to say in several sentences and paragraphs!

Part of the problem is that I asked for three good reasons.

But, I guess you only have one bad one.

"The minimum wage has people getting payed 15k a year" ("payed"...? You have my sympathy)

Not in the San Francisco block of the Peoples' Republik of Taxifornia. Here they would make $38,833.60 per year, going up to $39,894.40 per year on July 1st of this year. That's assuming they work full time. But we both know people making minimum wage don't work full time. Well, it's more accurate to say shouldn't instead of don't.

I think if you could be realistic for a moment, you'd realize that minimum wage jobs really shouldn't be what someone aspires to as far as permanent employment goes. Kids, part time workers, short time workers, etc., yes. To support a family? Hell no.

If someone actually thinks a minimum wage job should allow them to support a family, then imo they really should never have had a family, since they can't even support themselves.

Yap

it is because the average person doesn't understand economics and simply want immediate relief.. they don't understand that raising minimum wage would only make everything more expensive faster. in 2000 I used to get 2 fish sandwiches, fries and a large coke from Mc Donalds for 5 bucks, now its like 27 dollars.

well, that is people in general - normal people really don't think about the future. The elft is as bad as anyone you can think of , pandering to criminals, open borders, outsourcing manufacturing, healthcare for all.. those ideas will destroy a nation as fast as any other bad idea.

Looking at the world only one way, the dem / swampy RINO way, leads people to come to one sided conclusions. The problem described is a people problem, not a MAGA or a demonrat problem. It's called human nature.

What about here in the SF Bay Area block of the Peoples' Republik of Taxifornia, where the minimum wage is $18.67? (and going up to $19.18 on 7/1/25) Many workers lost their jobs because employers can't afford to pay that and remain competitive. The bigger places, some of the chains, are just automating and eliminating many of the low wage jobs.

The demonrats / swampy RINOs are pricing the very people they're pretending to help, right out of jobs. How does that square with the left's 'feelings are more important than facts' and 'we want to help people' attitudes?

I guess they can no longer count on a never ending stream of low-wage workers making their way across our borders for them to subjugate, so they're trying to make the ones here as poor as possible. After all, the best way to keep them in line, as in not straying from the demonrat plantation, is to make them believe the party actually cares about them, despite all the evidence from everything they do pointing in the opposite direction. I guess the demonrat party thinks they should be happy enough just being here.

Uh, there was no minimum wage initiative on the ballot in Florida in 2016.

WHAT!!!??? Please, oh please do not tell me that pl made up some bullshit!!!

Wait, I can't believe I'm having to type these words... but he's doing it again with several posts about a child labor law he says passed in Florida, but it didn't.

Lefties / swampy RINOs, making it up as they go... again... as usual.

RINOs... when they have zero facts to support their position...

"If I say it happened 10 years ago, nobody will remember, and nobody will bother to look it up."