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$15/hr is 10 years ago, now it should be 25

My rule of thumb is "the less I'd like to do a job, the more the person doing it should be paid." It works well for all the so-called unskilled jobs that get routinely exploited.

Hourly Rate Yearly Salary

$10 $20,800

$15 $31,200

$20 $41,600

$30 $62,400

$40 $83,200

$50 $104,000

$75 $156,000

$100 $208,000

To make an average wage (roughly 62k according to the national average) it'll need to be $30 an hour minimum.

No, they shouldn't make $15 an hour. They should make whatever is needed to sustain themselves and a family, including a pension and any healthcar costs. That's probably well over $15 an hour.

15$ is too little now. They would need to make more.

raising min wage doesn't raise prices... that's conservative bullshit

"we find prices grow by 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage."

They also conveniently forget how recently these jobs were hailed as being essential to the function of society....covid taught us nothing lol

Y'all know that trick for toddlers where you give them a choice between two things so they don't throw a tantrum? Maybe we could try that.

"We can either raise the minimum wage to $22--"

Conservative: "NOOOOO don't WANT THAT, don't want! Poor people will TAKE ALL THE CHEESEBURGERS"

"--Or implement UBI. How does that sound?"

"...Ok."

The answer to all of these is actually no... Because it should be $23.

Being disabled after a decade of working is fun.

Went from making $36 an hour to... about $11.50 from SSDI.

Was too injured to even apply for unemployment in time, not that it would have mattered as I was utterly incapable of 'seeking work'.

At this point, it should be 28

I say make it a gradient based on zip codes.

High enough that the local average rent is no more than 30% of it.

Doesn't just make sure workers get paid adequately wherever they are, also provides a slight incentive towards making jobs in less developed regions of the country to bring more jobs out to the exurbs and such.

Ah, early 2021... back when $15/hr was at least somewhat decent. Heck, $15/hr was being fight for about a decade before even then. Maybe in ten more years $15/hr will become minimum wage and politicians will pat themselves on the back and claim they're the most pro-worker politician in US history for instituting a minimum wage that was argued for two decades in the past.

I suspect a number of middle-class workers are against the idea of a minimum wage increase because their wages have been mostly stagnant and they feel it's not fair that the lowest paid workers might approach their income, while billionaires and CEOs are buying up everything.

They're right, it isn't fair, but they're looking in the wrong direction. Instead of trying to prevent the lowest paid worker from approaching their income, they should be trying to reign in the top 1%. But I guess it's easier and feels better to say huge swaths of people don't deserve to make anywhere near as much money as they do rather than enduring the inconvenience of finding alternatives to Amazon, Facebook, Insta, Xitter, etc.

Not to dismiss the real problem of monopolies and market dominance-- but the docility and lack of resistance of such people would be startling if it weren't over shadowed by their misplaced contempt for the poor. edit: typo

I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn't be even worse.

People they and everyone else depend on that they don't respect.

Why aren't conservative parties illegal worldwide yet?