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Originally Posted by edslunch
I’m sure there’s truth to that but it’s pretty damning if to make a living wage you need to DOUBLE the minimum wage. This is a problem decades in the making.
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Sure but some of that is misguided.
1. When did minimum wage jobs become a career?
- When we were kids, minimum wage jobs were delivering flyers, pumping gas, working fast food only for teenagers. It was always a stepping stone to something better. We all have moved on from our first minimum wage job. Some of us probably never worked a minimum wage. My first job was a cashier at Superstore in 1996 and it was way above minimum wage.
2. By raising the minimum wage, the number of jobs at minimum wage increases.
- You raise a job from $10 to $15 but you don't raise the already $15 job so it now gets lumped in. Cashiers, office cleaning, even secretaries were never minimum wage, hence they never got tipped. But now they are. I know cleaners in the 80s that absolutely made a killing, mostly immigrants. Made 3x sometimes 5x the minimum wage at the time.