Feel Bad News: Manchin undercuts Biden on $15/hr minimum wage

[C(-)ris]

$15 is too much for a Federal minimum wage. Federal needs to be the bottom dollar that someone who lives in the lowest cost of living area needs to stay out of poverty. $10-$11 is probably right around there.

I'd say set it at $10 starting next year and put it in law to increase by CPI every year. States and localities can decide on their own if they want to go over that.

[bfd]

Work is work. The way we value it is ridiculous. Yes, it costs more to be a professional than a manual laborer. But which worker is worth more? Which life is worth more? When we get past the notion that this work has greater value than that work, and this life is worth more than that life we'll have made a major breakthrough. But don't hold your breath. The elites and the gazillionaires will fight like hell to keep the status quo. Just look how they're weaponizing the weak-minded and inbred among us right now.


Who makes up our minimum-wage workers? https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum...f/home.pdf

Might be surprising…

[RgrF]

Some of those weak-minded reside among us.

[Sam3]

How about we do away with the tipping industry and pay tipped service workers a living wage? The idea of a tip was to thank a worker for EXCEPTIONALLY good service. Now from a customer's view a tip pretty much mandatory, not a choice. It's even automatically built into some restaurant bills.

[rjmacs]

C(-)ris wrote:
$15 is too much for a Federal minimum wage. Federal needs to be the bottom dollar that someone who lives in the lowest cost of living area needs to stay out of poverty. $10-$11 is probably right around there.

Cite? Or is this just your personal assessment?

[Lemon Drop]

Sam3 wrote:
How about we do away with the tipping industry and pay tipped service workers a living wage? The idea of a tip was to thank a worker for EXCEPTIONALLY good service. Now from a customer's view a tip pretty much mandatory, not a choice. It's even automatically built into some restaurant bills.

Yes! Tips as compensation is absurd, needs to go.

[rjmacs]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Sam3]
How about we do away with the tipping industry and pay tipped service workers a living wage? The idea of a tip was to thank a worker for EXCEPTIONALLY good service. Now from a customer's view a tip pretty much mandatory, not a choice. It's even automatically built into some restaurant bills.

Yes! Tips as compensation is absurd, needs to go.
Absurd, racist, and sexist! A trifecta of American ingenuity.