specialk said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
The minimum wage should be whatever it costs to pay a single person's rent, food, phone bill, car insurance, gasoline, car payment and gym fee, while living in a studio apartment. Take the total amount of all those things find the average and add $200 just for good measure. Then divide by 40. There's your unofficial minimum wage.
Also there hasn't been a federal minimum wage increase since 2009, and before that it was something like 6.50 an hour. $7.25 an hour only gets you about $986 a month at full time. Rent for most studio apartments is $500-$700 alone. Should people live off cereal, have no phone, no car, and work 40 hours a week? That's 3rd world country conditions.
Also, all those corporate jobs that force you to work 60 hours a week for "salaried" should go out of business. That's just another way to pay below minimum.
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I agree that we need to do a lot more to help the working poor, but I disagree with the bolded.
I feel like the idea that everyone needs to have their own place (no family, no roommates) and everyone needs their own car (no carpooling, no public transit) is a pretty America-centric idea.
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Yeah it is central to America. But let's be real. The northern half of America is too cold in the winter to walk or bike to work, and public transit isn't exactly the best here. I mean, are you really willing to wait on a bus for two hours just to get ten miles to your job? That's how slow public transit is here in america, in some cities.
