Why do Americans refuse to pay workers a living wage?

Why do Americans refuse to pay workers a living wage?

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>Making minimum wage at fucking 35.
I was getting 2$ above minimum wage 1 year after I got my first job, no college degree.
You have no fucking excuse unless you're a sack of shit that can't perform well enough to get a raise, piss off.

If you’re 35+ with kids and work minimum wage, kys.

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Then you go first.

stop bragging about you $17/hr job you useless poorfag.

17$ is a lot more than two dollars above minimum wage.

Minimum wage doesn't do shit for the poor. It causes inflation and hurts the economy. If a minimum wage worker works at a place for a few years and gets a few raises those get thrown out the fucking window when minimum wages go up. Higher paying jobs might give you a raise if you're lucky, but a lot of the time you'll just get shafted and get paid less. Sure the dollar amount might look the same, but it's less since the dollar will be worth less by raising the minimum wage. The only people not hurt by it are people with assets since their values will go up with the inflation.

because it would help the weak and useless

He worked at In-n-out for $10/hour

How many places actually pay minimum wage anymore? Hobby Lobby here offers $15 to stock shelves.

It's not in Seattle.

Here, fixed the image for you.

Once we start deporting the millions of beans, sand niggers, and hopefully some self deported lefties, this country could become a rocket ship and our white nation could prosper beyond belief.

Thats why socialism works in Scandinavia.

they are skill-less immigrants from south america you idiot.

raising the min wage is basically saying "lets increase the gibbs for illegals"

>liberals fail to understand the basics of economics or refuse to believe labour can follow the supply and demand curves.


Then, these dumb liberals will flood your country with people who are willing to work under minimum wage, making it even harder for poor people they supposedly care for. The left is a fucking joke.

It's more useful to promote a market where labor is valued at a point that it would be deserving of being paid more.

The reason you can pay so many in their 30's to do work at minimum wage is because there are a lack of jobs available in places like factories, mines, or trades where people could earn a higher wage.

That's one city out of the entire country. In my state minimum wage will still be less than 10$ until summer.

well, for a minute there I thought you had a real job. obviously if you're impressed with $17/hr you're a mcdonalds tier worker.

>replying to yourself


Shiggy

>Implying blacks work.

The cost of living should not be this high. We have an over population problem and no one wants to address it. They just want to help everyone further causing its growth.

We as Americans should not live in poverty as a first world nation.

>"Sooo, youre telling me I get paid the same with 15 dollars an hour AND i have to work less? What are you talking about buddy? Pay up"
People this retarded exist?

A. My state minimum wage is like 7.50.
B. I've been out of high school for like 6 years now, making much more.
No one gives a fuck about stupid faggots who are perpetually stuck at min wage due to horrible work ethic and drive.

I earn 1000 Euros by being disabled, A shy 200-300 euros away from what i would make slaving my ass off 24/7 at a dead end job

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They take away legitimate disability money because its easy for a refugee ( syrian somalian) to apply for welfare... I was cut short 70 euros every month this year, i can kiss leaving moms basement farewell now, Also you are a modern third world country, A brazil 2.0

If we got rid of the illegals there would be more jobs for the people here. If we abolished the minimum wage and lowered taxes for business those businesses could hire more people and more businesses could start up which would hire people.

If minimum wage is too high for a business to be profitable that business will never exist and that means those jobs will never exist.

With more businesses the competition for workers would go up increasing that worker's value and his wages would be worth more because of it.

With the minimum wage and less jobs we have more kids without jobs and kids without jobs leads to trouble, which is why kids are so fucked up today.

Why don’t we make the minimum wage a million dollars an hour to fix poverty

>Why won't they pay a living wage
Because the adults who make minimum wage have a habit of bouncing around from job to job to job for frivolous reasons, demonstrating their lack of utility for employers.

Also
>Walmart, the largest private employer in the world, was the latest company to join the list. On Thursday, the company announced that it will increase its minimum wage from $9 to $11, along with increases in paid maternity and parental leave.
>"Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.," Walmart CEO Doug McMillan said.
>Other companies have also indicated that they will increase their minimum wages, included banks.
>Wells Fargo said that it will raise its minimum wage for American employees to $15 an hour. The bank also plans to increase its philanthropic giving by 40 percent in 2018 to $400 million.
>Fifth Third will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for employees and give bonuses of $1,000 to more than 13,500 employees.

>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Thursday described the bonuses and wage increases as "crumbs" and "pathetic."

>Debbie Wasserman Schultz said $1000 was nothing, thus proving she is a woman of the people and not at all completely out of touch with the working class.

> demand higher minimum wage
> import millions of illegals who drive down wages

WHAT DO LIBERALS WANT

Why should I pay more because you are a fucking loser?

>complain that the gap between the rich and the poor widens every year
>demand millions of third world illiterate peasants come to America
?????

Overpop is not a problem. Education + income = less kids. Give your plebs an education and a living wage and they will stop having kids. This formula has worked wonders in the rest of the world.

>haha automation is gonna TERK YER JERB dumbass rednex XD
>we need beaners and Haitians desperately
???????

They pay for it in food stamps and other assistance, so it doesn't really matter, other than keeping people poor for no reason.

A lot of Americans aren't worth 15 dollars an hour

>helping single mothers
nope, shouldve made a better partner choice

>pragerjew video

leave

Poor people don't have jobs you dumbass
Those world star videos you see she boons fighting each other are all jobless retards who didn't bother to pass grade six

Imagine being such a worthless piece of shit that an HOUR of your time isn't worth $8 to anyone. There's literally nothing you can do for an hour that someone would willingly pay you $8.

You can make double minimum wage working as a fucking mailman. If you're over 18 and making minimum wage there's something wrong with you, period.

Define living.
Redefine living when minimum wage is raised.

There would be a lot more opportunities if we broke the unions too.

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you sound like a boomer faggot

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OP btfo by common sense economics, how will he/she/it ever recover?

I'm all in favor of raising wages by company, but by law you just invite inflation

Minimum wage is a scam.
Impliment maximum wage and UBI

>tfw you work two jobs but both are more then minimum

the difference is i refuse to work like this the rest of my life, and i will better my position

What is so ass-backwards about OPs post is the reality side of the pic makes me even more against raising minimum wage.

I mean if it doesn't help teens and part-timers then fuck-it.

Raising minimum just makes it even harder for small businesses to be established and grow. Of course the huge companies like McDonald's can afford a minimum wage rise but you're average small or medium sized business probably won't.

Yeah fuck it, so pajeet can send your American Benjamin bills back home to his grandma and his eleven brothers

They should really just select which businesses need to increase the wages. Make a law where a percentage cap is passed to increase the company wage.

Another excellent point.

In London we work for 7pound at h.

everyone in seattle and soon everyone in California

>Set restrictions upon minimum payable to employees.
>Wonder why everything gets more expensive and your purchasing power is reduced.
>Repeat until financial collapse.
>Call in jews to bail you out.
>Repeat whole cycle.
Just pay people based upon their merits and actual value as a worker.

>making shit money
you should probably get another job
>can't do that without trade school or college
you should probably go to trade school or college
>can't do that because I have kids to raise
why the fuck would you have children if you make shit money and can't get an education?
>because Jesus or something

Thank you

and 99% are illegal.

>implying that the minimum wage helps those who earn it

Imagine a world with 3 brands of beer:
- shit brew 1$
- mid brew 2$
- good brew 3$

Everyone drinks what he likes and can afford - poorfags drink shit brew, normies drink mid brew and the rich drink good brew.

Now government wants to crack down on alcoholism and sets a minimum price for beer at 2$.

What will happen?

Will poor people suddenly pay 2$ for their beloved shit brew or will they rather reduce their consumption and get the better mid brew instead?

Single women on minimum wage should not be having kids.

Do you have an tangible evidence that you're right?

I was making 30k a year flipping hot dogs four days a week before liberals fucked that up, don't even start with me

Women are le 56%
Go figure.

In UK, they fucked up the countryside by raising the minimum wage of the whole country according to London's cost of living standards. Big kick in the nuts for voting Brexit. Towns are becoming ghost towns at an alarming rate.