These people are such f'n idiots. Tell ya what, White_Wolf, you f'n Communist, let's raise the minimum wage to 50K. After 2 years, all prices will rise to reflect the wage increases, the pay scales will shift as will that fictitious poverty rate, and you stupid douchebags will be right back here bitching about 50K not being enough to live on.
Everything is relative, DUmbasses.
Could go back to the old Piece work plan, one gets minimun wage and paid extra for piece work. My first job as a teenager was to work this machine in a shoe shop. Scared the hell out of me, it was a bar machine that sewed straps onto shoes. Simple and easy, just place the strap on the shoe, put the foot down on the material and hit the foot peddle, the machine did it all.
Had I been 10 years older and not had to watch as another worker somehow got her thumb under the foot, had my husband not taken my pay check each week and given me just lunch money, I could have made a living wage and worked even harder.
All came down to working my butt off for $3.00 a week for lunch money and have someone else in charge of my money. Culture clash between those that handle the money and those that want a say in it.
Take a ride to the old mill towns where 80 years ago they were booming. Notice all the small homes that were built on the idea of Piece work. Businesses paid the minimun wage then gave the workers the chance to work as hard and as long as they wished to make even more money. It was up to the worker to decide what their salary would be.
No one complained about the wages they got, it was up to them to decide how hard they worked and what they wanted for a living wage.
Asians today do much the same, they work 2-3 jobs much like piece work, they do not expect any one job to pay them a living wage unless they spread it out to become one.
