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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Chat - House passed minimum wage increase (to $7.25) |
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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire!                   Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6279 days Last view: 6279 days |
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| Raising wages doesn't change enough, in my estimation. People who have an education can demand more pay, simply by searching for a job where their skills are wanted. On the other hand, poor people who can only get minimum wage will be stuck with it. Raising it helps them, but everything on top is likely to catch up too, causing inflation rather than aid to the poor.
Not a major one, but generally the problem is that, to really change things, you'd have to put major controls on the way people are paid, which would contradict the capitalist bend of this nation. I think the major issue is that we get fixated on small issues, and miss the big ones; therefore arguing is wasted, and even if one picks the 'best' solution, that only benefits this one portion of the pie. Meanwhile, rich people get richer, copyright stuff gets tangled in a knot, and hobos don't seem to care. Etc. But, eh, what am I to say? The world didn't ask me for my 2 cents when this happened--however you guys might find this of some interest for reading. |
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SamuraiX Broom Hatter Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6281 days |
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| The fact that a company would be dismayed at this new increase illustrates that there's enough people so that most places don't have to pay competitive wages for unskilled labor. I don't understand what you mean by people miss the big issues, Metal Man88. Do tell. | |||
PrincessPeach Buzzy Beetle  Since: 11-18-05 From: Rüti ZH Last post: 6287 days Last view: 6287 days |
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| But Isn't it also so, that those which earn minimum wage, also have to work their asses of to get it?
It was like that when I was working at McDonald's, if you weren't fast enough and doing your job, you where gone faster than you could order a BigMac. On a side note, Swiss minimum wage is about the level of a store managers wage (about USD 15.- an hour). About the increase, wat counts more is the increase in relationship with the allready paid wage (2.- of 7.something is about 25%, and as some pointed out, it's not that much in the greater scale (Stores and companies are too too greedy anyway). |
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netscape Grizzo  Since: 12-30-05 Last post: 6310 days Last view: 6305 days |
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| When I was a kid my mom made minimum wage, and was the single earner. It was rough. When the washer broke used to have wear dirty clothes to school or hand wash and hope they dried quick enough in the house for the next day. Food was definitely a problem. Nothing but pasta and potatoes usually. One week we had $20 to shop for 2 weeks food. At least we ate I suppose. When my mom was finally able to get a job that payed $8 the difference was amazing. The nursing home she worked at (she worked as a nurse's aid), they'd leave her taking care of 30 or so old people so she'd be exhausted when she got home to a meal of potatoes. Mean while the owner's dogs got gourmet dog food. :/
I say long over do. (edited by netscape on 01-19-07 11:29 AM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6280 days |
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Minimum wage is MINIMUM wage. That's why fast food places/etc. offer it... they know they're not going to have a bunch of perfect employees and that they'll have a steady stream of high school kids applying. For a high school kid, minimum wage is a lot of money.  |
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 6281 days Last view: 6281 days |
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| As good a bit of news as this is given America's extremely low bottom-end wages, does anyone else find it incredibly ass-backwards and inefficient that politicians get to set minimum wages? | |||
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6280 days |
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Originally posted by Arwon Politicians set everything here. Why do you think we're still in the stone age regarding most things? :\ |
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Bloodstar   660 blue boar boobies Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/acmlm.org/board/profile.php on line 42 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6279 days |
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Originally posted by netscape Oh, how I know how this feels. My mom's lazy, too. She makes $5.50 per hour, works 4 hours a day, 2 days a week. That's $44 a week. And she blows fucking half or so of it on cigarettes. |
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