This is America! This is slavery!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79390582 7.50 x 80 = 600 after taxes about 500$ not 240....so she is not working full time at 7.50 and has a child. This is noone elses fault or responsibility. work more, get a better job.
Get a better job.
When you have to catch a bus that runs 2-3 times a day, not convenient to your shift to get anywhere near a place that offers a better job.
Not to mention finding childcare or affording it to work longer hours.
Fuck that.
Pay a living wage. It's about time we recognize the slave masters for what they are. Cut or cap CEO salaries. Why does anyone need to make more than a half million a year? Seriously, if you can't find affordable housing, a decent car, childcare, and groceries for a half million you're just greedy. No one works hard enough to deserve more than that. No one.
It's all about paradigms and the lies you're being sold.
So you pay them a “livable” wage... say... one that starts at $20 an hour for a job that requires no skill or higher training. Now everyone who does have skill or training and are starting out their careers making $20 an hour will want more.. and that goes ALL the way up the line and stops at the director position. This is a HUGE cost to ANY business, because you are no longer just paying the lowest tier a lot more, but EVERYONE up to and including directors positions. That cost goes back into the cost of the product produced, thereby making EVERYTHING more expensive.
More people suddenly making more money want to rent better places and buy more apartments and small homes. Suddenly the cost of rent and property go way up because of demand and, also, quite suddenly people now making a “livable wage” can’t afford rent anymore and everyone else also finds themselves paying higher rent over time because of it. Same goes for the price of preowned and new vehicles as well. Actually, the immediate demand of non-essentials suddenly goes up tremendously due to newly imposed imbalance of supply to demand.
So now you are right back where you started. People making $20 an hour for no skill or higher training work not being able to afford anything. Except everyone else with skilled work suddenly are having a difficult economic time as well.
Because no skill or low skill labor is meant to be temporary while you go through a University or trade school and get skilled up in a job that actually requires technical skills and therefore are compensated for those technical skills you accrued. The more you learn and experience you garner in that field of skill the more you are worth for your know how. This is how the system rewards people who work hard and accrue knowledge. You get better positions with higher pay because you know more and have more experience doing technical things.
You have a baby? Too bad. Either you wanted a baby before being ready or it happened by mistake before you were ready economically for one. Now you have a lot harder time getting educated and trained. But you CAN do it, there are government help systems out there for you. Just go get educated and don’t sit on your ass taking advantage of those systems and doing nothing.
Also, one last thing for the retards that hate me for writing all of this: AUTOMATION IS HERE. TODAY. Your no skill or low skill job is amongst the EASIEST to replace with machines. They WILL (soon) eventually replace you with a machine, because: machines are faster, cleaner, don’t get sick or talk back, don’t need vacation time or rest and lunch breaks, cost about as much as a low skill labor employee to implement and just keep getting cheaper as robotics and AI tech progresses and more companies jump onboard deploying them.
Good luck.
