| amak11 said: I feel people really don't understand why minimum wage increases and what it should increase/decrease to in relation. Minimum wage increases because prices of basic needs have increased (these are the things we have a right to have, food and water). Minimum wage should have been adjusted with inflation but it clearly wasn't in the US. My country is doing the same now with the last minimum wage increase this past month being to 11 dollars an hour (then again it cost more to live in Canada than it does the US) but now it's being tied to inflation. . |
Ramen or a sack of beans and rice and water to survive and splitting a $400 a month apartment 2 or 3 ways until you're done with school does not require $15 an hour. IPhones and BMW leases do.
This isn't about survival and getting by while you proactively better yourself for the future, this is about people who wish to continue living beyond their means to keep up with their friends and neighbors and people they see on TV in material wealth and status.
Stop buying iPhones and bluerays and playstations and spinning rims and eating out all the time and you WONT NEED $15/hr .
But if you WANT $15/hr quit buying shit you don't NEED for a little while so you can afford to survive until you can earn it like everyone else who is already there.
People who don't understand the concept of short term sacrifice for long term prosperity will NEVER have enough to "survive" regardless of the minimum wage. It's like these payday loan places.Quit buying cigarettes for one goddamn month and you'd be caught up.
