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bOth sIDeS aRe ThE SaME!!1! (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Wouldn't raising minimal wage just raise prices higher without dealing with the underlying problems?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

So, honest question that comes of my own ignorance. Is a minimum wage supposed to be livable? I always figured minimum wage jobs were for people like teens who didn't need to afford housing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

"Supposed to be" in whose opinion?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, making his intentions pretty clear.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I love that all the Usual Suspects showed up on this thread to push "BOTH SIDES".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Why don't states with Dem majorities raise the local wage to match housing costs?

Washington State, New York, Minnesota... none of these states have escaped this problem.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Economics shenaniganery means that just raising the minimum wage will likely just raise prices.

The state apparatus should probably regulate the prices too, and improve the public housing projects.

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