hopopo t1_iy0spdl wrote on November 27, 2022 at 9:52 PM

Reply to comment by JizzyTurds in minium wage increase by MissMilkerss

If you work 40 hours week you must be able to live off of that wage. Under no circumstances anyone in NJ is living in a "nice place" or buying "nice things" with $52000 a year before taxes. Please don't exaggerate.

Majority of minimum wage jobs are preformed by adults not teens. Ratio is not even remotely close. If you are adult with family how precisely can you better your self if you have to work 80-100 hours a week working 2-3 jobs? How many hours you have in a day? If you allow people to live of minimum wage and 40 hours a week they might have time to take courses and better them self. Right?

Also most teens do seasonal work or part time so there is no way they will get anywhere near $52000... And even if they do, so what they should be paid fair market value for the job they perform.

JizzyTurds t1_iy0utp6 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM

And that’s my whole point, an adult shouldn’t be trying to live off minimum wage especially with a family, go to school and get a degree, learn a trade skill, there are so many ways to further yourself and make good money and not have to rely on minimum wage being increased. The fact is people are lazy and want their slice while not having to do anything for it, I struggled through my 20s with credit debt, I went back to college and finished my degree in my 30s, the degree wasn’t what I wanted and I ultimately turned to a trade skill and I couldn’t be happier. The point is I never stopped trying to better myself and now I make over 150k a year and I did that through hustle and determination.

hopopo t1_iy113b3 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 10:52 PM

I would not call people who work minimum wage jobs lazy. That is ignorant thing to say the least.

We need to give people a chance to better them self, and even if they can't they still have a right to live a dignified life.

Did you have to work 2-3 minimum wage jobs at 80-100 hours a week while you were getting your shit together and going back to school? Did you have a roof over your head or did you have to balance the earnings that pay enough to live on our own with rental help that keeps your family from being homeless?

Also, not everyone is capable of finishing trade or higher education for plethora or reasons including mental issues and disabilities.

Are disabled adults not entitled to live a decent life even though the best they can do is sweep the floors, flip the burgers, or bag groceries?

Apprehensive-Fox-127 t1_iy1lo7b wrote on November 28, 2022 at 1:27 AM

So i hope for your sake that everyone who can goes to trade school or college and betters themselves so next time you are at drive thru there is no one to serve you, all supermarkets are short staffed and so are daycares. Then you will be out there complaining about how everyone is too lazy to work. Lol lol lol.

Richard__Juul t1_iy35g5l wrote on November 28, 2022 at 11:46 AM

Something happened to nerds where they have become cold hearted misanthropes.

jersey_girl660 t1_iy38f1n wrote on November 28, 2022 at 12:21 PM

Lol at you thinking it’s that easy to do. Also there’s not enough skilled jobs for what you’re suggesting. Your idea would crash the economy.

Apprehensive-Fox-127 t1_iy1mn1r wrote on November 28, 2022 at 1:35 AM

Also i worked minimum wage for a couple months while looking for a better job relevant to my degree and no, after i got a higher paying job it wasn’t necessarily ‘harder’ than the minimum wage job. I now earn 6 figures at a corporate job sitting on a desk, and while the value i add is quite high, i would never be arrogant enough to feel that minimum wage jobs are ‘lazy’. You have to stand for hours and its still a lot of work.