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Its_Me_Rae t1_j6pd08p wrote

Reply to comment by WhiskyEchoTango in People who are conservative, why? by sia_q

Raising minimum wage would make everything more expensive by increasing a businesses costs. Then people on minimum wage still wouldn't be able to afford everything they wanted. It would be really difficult for small businesses.

Minimum wages shouldn't be a comfortable career. It should be used as a stepping stone. Gain experience and some marketable job skills so you can find better pay elsewhere.

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MaggieMae68 t1_j6pjkle wrote

Minimum wage was meant to be a living wage. Here's FDR's inaugural speech about minimum wage (bolding added by me):

"In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe."

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WhiskyEchoTango t1_j6pfc11 wrote

It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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WhiskyEchoTango t1_j6pffwd wrote

And the ceo's pay going from $30M annually to $47M hear no visible effect of process. Lol

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Its_Me_Rae t1_j6pgarq wrote

And for every one of those that did, you can list one that did the opposite. Tim Cook of Apple cut his salary by 40% this year. Not a great argument.

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