Gregory's ServerThere's people in my mentions arguing about whether minimum wage employees should be paid enough to live. It's one of those arguments you just can't ever win because there is no logic or reasoning to refute. You're just competing against centuries of American brainwashing that led people to believe being able to push buttons on a computer means they're somehow more valuable to society than the people who produce the food they need to survive; therefore, they deserve 6 figure salaries while others should have to choose between food and rent.
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 @yogthos @lispi314 @malwaretech And a solution: [The workers] ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!" they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wages system!" Karl Marx - "Value, Price, and Profit" |
@malwaretech It just makes no sense. What's the point of a minimum wage you can't live on, and transitively of any job you can't live on?
A livable wage should be the minimum lowest bar acceptable legally, certainly not some unusual benefit.