Llamalandia wrote:Grenartia wrote:
1. Yes, because we need more poor people starving in the fucking streets.
2. But living IS. And you have to work to get the money to live. So yes, working IS a right. As is a living wage.
3. Bullshit. If an employer can't be fucking bothered to pay me enough to live, why the fuck should I be bothered to appreciate the "opportunity" to slave myself out to them until I die?
4. Except, doing so requires this thing. Called education. That you have to pay for with this thing. Called money. If you can't make enough money on minimum wage to get the education required to move up.
5. There's a difference between working hard to achieve your goals, and slaving yourself to a corporation for barely any pay, and having to thank them for the 'privilege'.
6. Has nothing to do with "laziness". Instead, its a matter of NOBODY can be expected to work their ass off as hard as is required to obtain the money to obtain the education required to move up the ladder. You either have to be Superman, doing illegal activities, or performing sexual favors on your boss in order to move up the ladder while working for minimum wage.
Um the world band defines the poverty line as being $1.25 per day and I believe the UN uses the figure of $2 a day. Thus minimum wage in the usa is 3.25x that of the un poverty line per day for working just one hour! if we assume that an average work day is say 8 hours then that means that someone making minimum wage in the usa is making 28x the un poverty line. I would say that's a "living wage"
It certainly is a "living wage" if you live in fucking Nigeria.
But this is America, and shit is a lot more expensive compared to Nigeria.