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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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.
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You’re responding as if the number of people on minimum wage is the main problem, and horrors if the minimum wage increased there would be more of them. The issue is actually too many people making too little money, particularly relative to decades prior. Raising the minimum wage would address that (yes with some side-effects)