| PDF said: So sad to see bitter people making the argument that is not fair for minimum wage to go up unless I get paid too. Raising the minimum wage won't hurt you, it will only help that single mother, who already works two jobs or that college kid struggling to pay his way through school. Let alone the fact that an increased minimum wage will likely increase wages across the board as it always has. Only people who should be against the minimum wage is small business owners, and as someone who paid employees minimum wage when I ran my own business. I realize that it would have been harder to be profitable, but not impossible. Smart and resourceful businesses will survive, and the weaker ones will die. This already happens anyways. |
Hold on, time the fuck out. Won't hurt me...will only help the less fortunate? I spent 4 years in school and am now $30K+ in debt to land the job I have. I obviously want to move up as the years go on, but in no way, shape, or form, should a job that a teenager who's getting his "first job" or some lazy person who doesn't care about the job he/she does or how he/she performs at it; just the pay check, should be paid anywhere close to what I make. It undermines my job and my career to know that after all that hard work, I'm only doing 1% better than a 16 year old (since people like to look at things from the lowest common denominator). That does hurt me. I'm bitter because I worked my ass off and expect a payday to reflect that, while conversely, people who did nothing to make themselves more appealing to better, higher paying employers want a payday that is in the same range as mine? Fine, you're damned right I'm bitter. Trying to "help the single mother" or "the college kid" is purely an emotional ploy. Why? Because you yourself even said "it's sad to see people say it's not fair for minimum wage to go up unless I get paid too". Why should they get compensated more for their lack of skill, while I stay exactly where I am even being a skilled laborer? It's because you feel bad for them, right? Well, it's sad to see people defending "people who worked hard to get better skills to be paid better should be paid roughly the same as people with no skills at all".
But then....you also said that "let alone the fact than an increased minimum wage will likely increase wages across the board"? So why, then, is it unfair to point out that I better get paid more if Johnny McBurgerFlip gets paid more? In all actuality, that would just have a 0 effect. Pumping more money into the economy just causes inflation. Everybody making $15/hr doesn't mean everybody will be able to afford more. It'll just make everything go up, since suppliers will see the demand increasing and try to make a profit. Simple economics.
