The sad thing is that she defends that it is is fine to live of peoples' backs for a slightly lower price. The same rationale exploits Bangladeshi women who make cheap apparel or mean from Ghana who scavenge Western electronic garbage.

Wait, so you mean if someone works every waking minute then that should give them enough money to afford the basic necessities of life? That’s insanity!! /s 🙄

I'm really struggling with how packing boxes is more "skilled" labour than working as a fry cook.

Jordan just showed her “I’m stupid” badge

Lol!! Mom’s kick ass!!!!

Idiot.

Bingo!

This!

Yeah people think it has the same buying oower

$100,000 at $15/hr is 128 hours a week, or 18 hours a day - assuming in both cases that you work for 365 days without a break.

Tomi is scum

May we suggest to desi that she should be paid minimum wage until she reads the first chapter of a basic textbook on economics?

Value is created when people stop being complicit with those who exploit.

I'm pretty sure the Colorado girl is high on something!

Schooled.

Someone did not understand the invisible hand. There is no working supply and demand as long as the market is imperfect, which it is due to the asymetry of information and power. If you use clever terms, be sure that you actually grasp them!

Because those folks working those minimum wage type jobs need to work because they’ll get fired for not coming in. They’re not there because they want to be there; they need to survive and get that pay check.

It’s funny how so many toss teens under the bus with labor, but do the math: college is extremely expensive and to pay tuition at the uni I work at you need 83 hours a week all summer. In 1980 you could pay tuition in 20 hours a week all summer. Many Americans are cobbling together a life on 2-4 of these jobs that for some reason were vital during the pandemic, but not valuable enough to pay adequately.

Bravo

By republican shills who flunked economics

Interesting that these people kow exactly why some people need to work in low-incoming jobs. "Lazyness" is such an easy explanation. What about illness? Bad fate in live? Other hardships? If you are at the bottom, it might not be as easy to get up as some imagine.

Bam!

I d i o t.

This concepts of buying power and inflation go hard on those who want to ingore them.

Burn-tastic

lets count the ways Ned messed up here... I have; 1/ Australia isn't in Europe; 2/ they don't use Euros; 3/ if their currency is higher that makes a "European" $20 even more then an American $20, meaning the Aussies would be paid more then US$20/hr; 4/ this guy is the one that needs to learn. Not bad for just 26 words.

Well, why not?

"Just get a better job". Fine, let those w minimum wages all just quit and get better jobs. Then there's no movie theaters, no burger joints, no public restrooms and what not. How is this even a discussion? Especially in the states where EVERYTHING costs 😱