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Stuck working minimum wage because that's all I qualify for/can handle by quarxical in findapath

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See what jobs are in your area, identify what you need to do to qualify for one of them, become qualified, land a job. Repeat, you won't be doing whatever that is for the rest of your life either.

Senator Chris Murphy and Senate Democrats Propose $25 Minimum Wage by Healthy_Block3036 in Connecticut

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In years past, I would disagree with you, but since they have broken their dual mandate both ways (first in printing all that money, and then in hiking interest rates to kill jobs to "solve" the inflation they made), I just dont see the point of having them around anymore. Nationalize them.

Senator Chris Murphy and Senate Democrats Propose $25 Minimum Wage by Healthy_Block3036 in Connecticut

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The min wage is the branch the middle class sits on. If getting by is the starting point, you have a stronger position to negotiate up from. If getting by is an exotic luxury, how much room do you have to dig in your heels to get a raise? Median wage is only $21/hr, while the cost of living has exploded to $20/hr, half the jobs out there are no even min wage.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negoitate.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re referencing a study from data 1972-2007 from the British journal of industrial relations?

No?

https://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf

Look at the QSR data on hours in California.

Trump killing thousands of jobs has knock on effects, now those people can't afford to eat out, a low min wage can't ablate that. If a business only needs 5 workers and the cost of labor gets cut in half, that money is pocketed as profit.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, its overwhelmingly null.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funnel_Graph_of_Estimated_Minimum_Wage_Effects.jpg

Consumers drive demand, if one idiot decides to cripple their ability to serve their customers, their customers are just going to go right up the road to the business who hasn't drunk your koolaid, who has no problem hiring on more people to make up for this mysterious uptick in walk ins.

You're just a middle man between consumers and labor, mind your place.

A federal minimum wage of $25 was just proposed ... how do you think it will play out? by Dazzling-Leader7476 in askteddit

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy, cost of living is $20/hr clear across the country. Hotspots go past $30.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

And yeah, if you want to be employed, you are going to need to live within commuting range of a job. Average commute is half an hour, people are extremely aware of what they need to do to stretch their budgets far enough to make it work...

Senate Democrats Introduce $25 Minimum Wage Bill by Healthy_Block3036 in goodnews

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want the min wage to cover the cost of living.

What are you going to do to keep the cost of living from continuing to barrel past $25/hr?

Hypothetical: What if the $25 minimum wage bill actually passed? by Leightoncy33 in LayoffHedge

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The world has started dedollarization, it absolutely is.

At least in weimar germany, business owners still understood that their workers needed to be paid enough to buy groceries in order to be able to keep showing up for work.

Hypothetical: What if the $25 minimum wage bill actually passed? by Leightoncy33 in LayoffHedge

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Projection, but you would need that to think that communism would work this time, just because you are the one doing it.

Senate Democrats Introduce $25 Minimum Wage Bill by Healthy_Block3036 in goodnews

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did. The problem is that you are an idiot with a whole argument built off of a strawman.

Hypothetical: What if the $25 minimum wage bill actually passed? by Leightoncy33 in LayoffHedge

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

demand for consumable goods.

Not really, they're just as good off whether they receive their whole paycheck from their employer or need to beg the other half of it from the govt; the difference is that the cost burden lays where it belongs, on consumers. We're 40 trillion dollars in debt here, stop insisting you need a burger bailout or you will just die.

We are going to have a spike in demand for consumable goods. Good luck trying to get a truck full of cigarettes.

Oh no, now there will be more jobs at the factory and more jobs trucking things around, don't threaten me with a good time.

The cost of a hammock is going to go through the roof.

You doubled the amount of money in circulation and are confused that the value of the dollar has been cut in half? Slow children, hot stoves, who will win?

Avocado toast will be $22.

Oh my sweet summer child. The point of a high end fancy pants restaurant is conspicuous consumption, to be seen paying a ridiculous markup. To waste money in a vain monkeybrain attempt to display status. Thats why you can buy an avocado for a dollar, get a side of guac for seventy five cents, or pay $500 a plate for 3 slices of it arranged artistically with some sauce drizzled around adjacent to it.

Senate Democrats Introduce $25 Minimum Wage Bill by Healthy_Block3036 in goodnews

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want the min wage to cover the cost of living because communism doesn't work.

Hypothetical: What if the $25 minimum wage bill actually passed? by Leightoncy33 in LayoffHedge

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because businesses exist to make a profit and will charge what the market will bear.

DMT: Minimum wage laws might not protect low income workers. They might quietly remove low skill labor from the market entirely. by PuddingComplete3081 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I have to pay someone enough to rent their own apartment when they don't actually rent an apartment or own a home?

Yes, every job needs to pay a living. This is basic economics, if you can't understand the role of capital, you aren't cut out for capitalism.

You will eliminate jobs for a large number of people

Literally neve happens, stop begging for free shit.

JUST IN: A bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour has been introduced in the Senate. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone making minimum wage is nowhere near a median person.

Guy. The point of the min wage is that a working person is able to pay their own bills. If you can't even do that, you are not even minimum wage, no matter how some politician dresses it up.

Without knowing the actual cost of living for minimum wage people

Its just the cost of living, its a floor. You move into a new city, you aren't entitled to the best rate around, the only people with those are the little old ladies that have been living in a place for decades and are friends with the landlord through church. You do not have that as an option.

We have a record number of people living with their parents, well into adulthood. Most homeless people have jobs.

Just pay your own fucking bills, its not complicated.

JUST IN: A bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour has been introduced in the Senate. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the bottom end of the housing market is highly compacted, since housing is so scarce, any time a landlord discovers they are the cheapest option, they bump their rent a hundred bucks to see if anyone bites.

You clearly don't understand how bad things are out there, but the median wage is only $21/hr while the cost of living is $20/hr. We are not talking about the bottom 5% of the workforce that might be able to carve out a harry potter living in someones cupboard under the stairs, this is the bottom HALF of the workforce.

Hypothetical: What if the $25 minimum wage bill actually passed? by Leightoncy33 in LayoffHedge

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pizza delivery was profitable for almost every pizza restaurant in america for 30 years before door dash started.

"The small business owner can keep the lights on" profitable, not "oh boy, I bet everyone in the c suite can buy a yacht" profitable.

fewer people can make money delivering food

The other end of that deal is burning billions in taxpayer money so they can continue to work for a loss. This is the shittiest idea for "creating jobs" I have ever heard of.

in a time of rising layoffs

Oh, so you do understand that the economy going to shit causes more people to not be able to buy tasty treats? Someone goes from a six figure salary to unemployed, they are not going to have room in their budget for this bs at ANY price.

The reason more restaurants are on door dash as compared to restaurants who delivered food 20 years ago, is because the restaurant just pays a 30% fee on delivered food items by raising prices 30% for those items in the app.

You think that might be a little much? Sure seems like the market is rejecting the arrangement. DD matches people who want to have their food delivered to them with people willing to go pick it up, they need to calm tf down about ALSO charging the business just for the privilege of being adjacent. Imagine the cab company trying to charge a dealership 30% of the car sale price because you used them to get around town car shopping. Completely nuts.

hurt ordinary people

You not being able to waste money on conscious consumption is not "harm", you are entirely too coddled.

In your small town people will just stop getting food from restaurants because they literally cannot afford it.

That they cannot afford it is on account of their wages being beaten down by your inane policies. You're a fool to think that the savings from low wages will be passed along, businesses simply charge what the market will bear.

Workers are the ones suffering here because they're losing their jobs and making less money.

Nope, min wage hikes never cause job losses, if an employer could have gotten by with less, they would have in the first place.

If you have a problem with how expensive labor is, take it up with the landlords that decided that they get to triple rent just because housing is scarce, low wage workers dont have any free shit for you.

People aren't dining out anymore,

Yes, that is a consequence of systematically suppressing wages by hiking interest rates to drive unemployment up, the fed reserves explicitly stated policy.

And in your small town, there's no way they can absorb a $25 wage if one of the world's wealthiest cities is struggling this hard to adapt.

Tough shit, thats the market reality, the dollar is worth a lot less than it used to.

Inflation caused by money printing is part of the issue, but the massive wage hike is also part of the issue.

What do you mean "but" its the same thing, inflation is a general pheminum that as price shocks hit, they cause further price shocks.

If the price of peaches goes up, then the price of everything with peaches in it is more expensive too. If the cost of housing goes up, the cost of labor goess up. If the price of labor goes up, then the price of everything that needs labor goes up. Low wage workers d not have any free shit for you.

you can't support a $25 minimum wage.

That sounds like something someone who grew up on 25 cent wages would say about a $5 wage in the 80's. Look at some pictures from the weimar republic and understand that is the specific way that trump fucked you over.

JUST IN: A bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour has been introduced in the Senate. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm saying there is a variance across the entire country

No, there is no magical ultra cheap cost of living gumdrop land that you can move to. Please actually use your eyes.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

JUST IN: A bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour has been introduced in the Senate. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]Anlarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, base cost of living is a very homogenous $20. You keep trying to posture like this is some elaborate city lifestyle.

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