"A person who earns the federal minimum wage of $7...

"A person who earns the federal minimum wage of $7.25 has to work 103 hours every week to afford a one-bedroom home at the national average fair market rent, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition."

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Good day OP!

>home
the minimum wage is not intended to be enough to become a home owner
it is intended to be enough to survive while getting the experience needed to get a better paying job

I made more than $7.25 an hour when I was 10 years old mowing lawns in my neighborhood. It's not that hard, you're just not trying.

>Survive
Choosing between having a roof over your head or having something to eat.
Good bless 'Murica.

We are lucky we even have a minimum wage. We wouldn't if people didn't do something about it. Companies who pay minimum wage need to be burnt to the ground.

minimum wage is not designed to support a person

it is to allow people entering the workforce to get job experience and the skills necessary to obtain a higher paying job

A person who earns the federal minimum wage of $.7.25 does not deserve a one bedroom home

Exactly, people are too stupid to realize a shiny penny for the days work won't support them. Without more government control we'd all be dead win a week

Fool.

If you have a family and expect min wage to work you are a moron.
1) you shouldn't have a family if you cannot afford to support yourself much less others.
2) there are jobs paying upwards of 25-30 dollars and hour posted daily in my local paper- its almost impossible to NOT have a job in this economy
3) what are you eating that costs so much you can't afford rent?
4) if you are living in a home you can't afford you should sell and rent instead.
5) Murica, huh? look around. If you don't like it, move.

There are 168 hours in a week. You work 103 of them, you still get over 9 hours sleep each day. Are you just fucking lazy?

If you cant think around the rent trap you are a failure.
If some hand me down conservicuck work ethic morals are keeping you from living, you are a failure.
Also just for fun, fuck every one of you bootlicking Sup Forums idiots that comes ITT.

>the minimum wage isn't meant to support a person

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No, it's to prevent companies from paying employees even less and basically making slavery. Companies would pay people $2.00/hr. If they could get away with it. That's about what some waitresses make before tips.

To put things in perspective I make 17hr working full time with health benefits etc. And I am still living at home because rent is too high in my opinion and I don't have enough capital for a down payment on property yet.. if you are working less/making less than me you shouldn't be thinking about home owning much less on the MINIMUM wage

But it cost 0$ per week to live in OP's mom's basement.

Jews and the mob don't care. No sympathy for "communists". In other words, those people would be happy to watch the world starve in order to save their family fortunes. But, normal people who work and go to college are the insane "leftists".

Simply put, this is Late Stage Capitalism taking hold in a greater degree each year.

Why can't they just get a real job then? There is ads every day for jobs with free paid training with a guarantee of employment at training completion that pay well above the minimum wage. These are in markets that have a worker shortage too

Muh "waiters make $2 an hour" argument
Get a real fucking job, carrying food is not a skilled labor. And guess what, they know what the job pays before they take it so it isn't like they are getting fucked over.

Imagine having so little worth that you can only find a job paying the absolute lowest legal wage

There will always need to be people doing these jobs, even if some do move up a bit.

Or perhaps, we can stop thinking of "minimum wage" jobs as the sort of job anybody should aspire to have as an adult.

When I was a teenager, my first couple of jobs were "minimum wage." Working as manual labor in a fast food joint shouldn't be the type of job you expect to "support a family" on.

If your job can be done by a 15 year old kid with zero work experience, it will be. Get your experience, and aspire to a better job. Even without a lot of education, it's not that hard to get $10 - $15 an hour.

Make $14.50 an hour, and you can afford that one bedroom home in 51.5 hours a week... that's a pretty fucking reasonable wage, and a pretty reasonable amount of time to work in a given week.

Those same waiters or waitresses might make 100-200 a day underreported tip money. Learn how to math kiddo

sounds ok, it is the minimum, you can still go up, if you are making good decisions in life.

It being that low is an indication that the country is stuffed with people willing to live in abject poverty, dozens of people crammed in a tiny house, eating expired trash, and working for peanuts because it's still better than their country.

When human labor is more scarce, it is valued higher. When the market is crashed by flooding it with slave labor workers, average unskilled wage plummets

You missed the point numbnuts. One, I would never work I that type of business because I hate fat people. 2. My point was minimum wage is to protect the employees from being taken advantage of by the employers. You just want to argue just to argue even tho you make no points. Dumb shit.

The point with this post was to tell you tree bark lovers that money has more value than just giving you power. It's there to wipe your asses

The jobs still need doing though.

>Fuck it, all service staff, fast food workers and cleaners get new jobs.
>The country collapses into filth because no one will clean anything or serve coffee.

That’s false. Minimum wage is most definitely intended to be a livable wage. It’s not here unless you’re living like a Mexican with 12 people in a three bedroom house.

No shit fuckwad. That wasn't my point.

"The forest was shrinking but the Trees continued to vote for the Axe
because it's handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them"

places where the minimum wage is still set at the federal minimum don't have costs of living that wouldn't allow for someone to survive working full time. You can't just take averages across the board you ill informed cuck

> the jobs need doing though

Except if you raise the minimum wage, then you will simply accelerate the mechanization of those jobs - if WalMart looks at their expenses and realizes they're paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to an army of minimum wage drones to mop the floors, you can be sure that they're going to think very hard about how they can invest in an army of floor cleaning robots that they can deploy for a $30k per unit cost in each of their stores, and will never take a sick day or walk out in the middle of a shift.

In fact, WalMart is already investing heavily in just that: autonomous floor cleaners, shelf stockers, etc.

The jobs need doing... but it doesn't mean that PEOPLE need to do them.

The robot tax should feed into the UBI system.

Sorted!

So start the ball rolling and campaign for a raise in the minimum wage.

1) nobody talked about having a family, but you shouldn't consider founding a family if you are not financial safe, but if financial problems occur after you already founded a family you maybe couldn't do much more about it.
2) If they give 25-30 $/h they won't take just everyone. Don't know in what white trash social class you are, but for people in the lower social classes life isn't that easy
3) if you have to work for rent 103 h a week there isn't left much for other things in life
4) this hole thread was about how much it costs to rent a one-bedroom home, so how did you come up with the thing about selling your home?
5) Moving to another country isn't that easy. In fact it can happen that you get worse where you move, because no job, no friends/family, no place to live at, you might not know the language and in generall it's a better attitude to stay at your country and try to improve it (you personally can't improve it, but if others think like you the masses can make the changes)

Walmart and other corporations already have their customers working for them with self checkouts. Fuck that shit. Break them when you can. Accidentally spill some liquids on them.

aesops fable

Sorry, were you under the impression that the ball isn't already rolling? These companies are ALREADY investing heavily in these things.

The ball is rolling - raising minimum wage will simply make it roll faster.

Why break them? You're just driving up the prices you pay to WalMart. The robots and self checkouts are cheaper - which means they can keep selling things cheaper, which means you keep more of your money.

Break the stuff, and yeah, you really stick it to them - they have to spend a few tens of thousands each year in repairs and upkeep they wouldn't have before... and when that impacts their profit margins, they'll simply raise prices on each item a few pennies to offset the increased expenses.

You'll pay more so they can repair the shit that you're deliberately breaking to "stick it to the man," and their profits won't suffer at all.

Fuck The Waltons and Fuck you. A few broken machines are not going to raise the price of my oil filter and they most definitely have most of the God damn money to fix the fucking things . I don't work for them and if they expect me to work for them for free, I'm getting paid for it one way or another.

Well, I looked around and still don't live in the US, so I guess I'm good :-)

They didn't get the god damned money to fix the fucking things by selling oil filters at a loss, internet tough guy.

First, breaking the robot is vandalism, and they WILL call the cops and ruin your life over it. Your five seconds of tough guy satisfaction is not worth the suffering they'll put you through.

Second, if enough people break their fucking robots, they will raise prices and you WILL pay more, or have to go somewhere else, where you will STILL pay more than what you'd pay at WalMart. They have worked out economies of scale and supply chain in such a way that they can undercut just about any other retailer on price and still make a reasonable profit - few if any other retailers can match their prices in a sustainable way.

I'm not saying this to suck the Waltons' dicks. I'm saying this because this is how economics works.

It's called an accident. I accidentally spilled some soda all over the delicate electronics. I'm not going to just bash it up with a hammer from the tool section. You have alot to say, but it really just sounds like you are sucking the waltons dicks. I mean really, wal mart can't even prevent a mass shooting in their stores hahaha

Why don't any dads have basements?

Prove it. This is just something people say.

> spilled some soda

You really are stupid, aren't you? It's an industrial robot, you think you're going to ruin it with a splash of your shitty code red?

Your "accident" will be about as inconvenient and debilitating to the robot as your gay lover's jizz is to you when he paints your guts.

A teenager? Agreed.

They don't. Dads usually move to a low-rent one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of town after the divorce, user.

Isn't your break almost over. I'm sure you got alot to do being the floor manager at Walmart mart and all... you would be surprised what a very strong magnet can do also. Pleb.

> very strong magnet

I would be more surprised if you somehow managed to carry a "very strong magnet" around with those limp wrists.

Hit a sore spot? Don't worry, you can't have limp wrists if you shoot Glawks. Now get back to work, company man. I'm sure you're corporate overlords don't like you wasting time on the internetz.

> "A person who earns the federal minimum wage of $7.25 has to work 103 hours every week to afford a one-bedroom home at the national average fair market rent, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition."

How do you expect to afford AVERAGE housing if you're being paid MINIMUM wage? It seems obvious that average housing should be affordable for people earning the average wage.

If you're earning minimum wage, naturally you should be looking for below-average housing.

The OP proved it you stupid fuck.

> Glawks

Stay gold, pony boy.

No it isn't. Minimum wage is supposed to be survival wages without debt. Its for a roof over your head, basic cloths on your back and enough food to maintain healthy weight. Something people prior to minimum wage laws weren't earning. It was never intended to be a wage on which people could raise a family on just that income or buy luxuries. But in some areas of the country it is a valid argument to say minimum wage is no longer covering this minimum which it was intended to cover. If a single person can't afford a studio apartment on minimum wage its not sufficient.

ok boomer