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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
If you justify raising the minimum wage to $15 with the cost of living excuse...then you have to apply that same percentage increase across the board to everyone - up-to and including CEOs of major corporations.
And to pay for all those increases - corporations will hike the price of their product/service... which we'll all pay for in one way or another.
I'm college-educated and 50 yrs old with many, many years of work experience in a variety of fields. In the past I invested a great deal of time and money in my college education. Currently I'm in upper management - having laboured my way from an entry-level position a decade ago (while working a second job, I might add).
As such - if minimum wage is raised to $15/hr. I'm not going to be pleased about the diminishing gap between my current position and that of a menial job - unless I get a percentile increase as well. Cost of living affects us all, correct?
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Or all these people realize that just saying fuck it and go on welfare hurts us even more, because A, nobody to do those jobs, means no more people working shit jobs so you don't have to cook your own meal, or serve yourself at a restaurant, etc, and more we pay in taxes.
But hey, fuck the people who weren't lucky enough to get a college education because they couldn't afford it, they're just not meant to make more than $9/hr. Let them starve, let them work themselves to death like this woman, let them become homeless, they just weren't meant to survive, right?