If I pay you a living wage, how do you expect me to buy my own, private Lolita island?
Honestly what’s the point of minimum wage if you can’t survive? Why even bother to have a minimum wage at all?
May as well just do crime 🤷♂️
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Minimum wage shouldn’t exist in the first place. It’s a round about way of accepting that the current structure takes everything you have indefinitely with constantly increasing costs. Why do we pay for taxes, for them to fund things to be used against us? I’m sorry if this comes off wrong, but the cost goes to fat paychecks and not helping us.
Incorrect.
They should also be able to afford basic creature comforts.
People love to ignore that part of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs :’)
“Just be a workslave bro! Just don’t do literally anything fun; don’t watch TV, don’t watch movies, don’t play games, don’t go out with friends. Just go to work and go home and that’s it, and you’ll be set for life!”
The USA, the richest country in the world by far, has been surpassed by Poland (about the same population as California alone)
https://www.dudkowiak.com/employment-law-in-poland/employee-benefits-in-poland
TLDR They have universal healthcare, family leave, vacation, and retirement that the vast majority of US workers can only dream of. No state of the union has this many benefits to my knowledge (but we do have 50, I apologize). Their minimum wage is almost as much, and they pay fewer taxes than many Americans (again, some states may be an exception).
An Eastern Block nation has managed to surpass the USA with far less money, in just a few decades.
Our politicians are not that stupid. They could pass legislation tomorrow with a simple majority vote (no need for super majority, let’s not be silly) and change our laws whenever they would like to. They choose not to, it’s a calculated choice.
They could pass legislation tomorrow with a simple majority vote (no need for super majority
But that would eat into shareholder profits, and we can’t have that, especially with insider trading politicians.
Honestly, this needs to be fixed. Mamdani has proven that the politicians have been trash, and it needs to go.
Likewise, an unemployed crumlord with previously undernegated transgender hypiograms and a general association with incest should have their court bills paid for any accidental public masturbation charges that totally deserve to get dropped because I’m retarded despite having proved P=nP, amirite guys? I’m with you people if you’re with me, and I’m Jesus for Christ’s sake!
Alliances, amirite guys?! 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🌎
“Be kind to each other”
I’m all for the residents of apartment buildings to own the space where they live, collectively.
That’s a great idea - I’m glad somebody thought of this!!
They should also be able to afford a little bit of fun too.
I have managed to roll some of my healthcare, self care/exercise, and hobbies into one by playing a musical that weighs I don’t want to do the math but the partial instrument I just built weighs 78 pounds.
Almost as though that wage should pay at least the minimum to accomplish that.
I think minimum wage isn’t sufficient. Inflation will keep striking, employers will continue wage theft and abuse, billionaires will keep engineering laws that benefit them at the expense of all others.
Replacing the entire economic system outright is the true minimum. At best, minimum wage alone is just a tiny bandaid covering a spurting stump. To save society, abandoning capitalist tradition is key.
Yep, it’s a treadmill. Raise wages and cost of living will rise to meet it. That’s why I’m not convinced a UBI on it’s own will be helpful. You need to find a way to govern end costs; but how you do that I have no idea.
Personally, I think the key is to create an income bottleneck: Each type of job falls into a rank, each rank giving a fixed income each year. Rank of a job type is determined by the effort, risk, and knowledge required. So a migrant working the fields, gets higher pay than a waiter, because that involves effort and possible damage from being out in bad conditions. There are only 7 or so job ranks. By limiting incomes, we also fight inflation, because sellers have to work within predictable income bands.
Rank 0 is UBI of $10,000 for citizens, which is replaced by job income if a citizen gets a standard job - but schooling grades adds to their pool. Jobs give more money than UBI. Students are payed $2,000 to $10,000, depending on their grades. Waiters and other basic roles get $20,000. $40,000 for managers, cops, and the like. $60,000 for produce pickers, delivery drivers, and soldiers in safe conditions. $80,000 for regular teachers, doctors, and researchers, fire fighters, lumberjacks, ambulance drivers, and so forth. $100k for surgeons, university-grade researchers, and astronauts.
Workers vote for their leaders within their unit and for leaders above their unit. They determine who gets to lead, and sets their pay rank every 3 months. This makes it harder for leaders to get entrenched and abuse workers.
I have more thoughts on this sort of thing, but the key thing is to seriously limit the power and authority of individuals: Limit total incomes each year to a hard cap, absolute limits on wealth and assets, guarantee universal services that allows people to quit and avoid bad jobs without risking their wellbeing. Free universal healthcare, basic food, generic goods, and basic shelter with internet, all of these freely given without means testing. Migrants also get universal services. The government gets the bulk of taxes from companies, and assigns a rotation of book-keepers from the state and federal government to ensure that companies aren’t lying.
The free stuff provided by the government also grease the wheels of genuine capitalism - paid goods and services have to be better than the universal items, else they won’t sell. That helps against inflation, since the government is basically setting the base price of things.
So then what do you do with all the extra money made by independent salesman? Already people cook books in order not to declare some if their income. Plus there are so many self employed professions that make money based on how much work they do, how do you scale them when their work might be seasonal or not a regular income?
Or do the ranked salaries only apply to certain sectors?
Rent nothing, minimum wage should enable home ownership.
So long as “home” doesn’t mean “house.”
Duplexes, townhomes, etc are necessary to limit sprawl. If everyone has a separate home, driveway, and lawn that’s a lot of land use.
Duplexes and townhomes aren’t that dense, you’d want apartment complexes for most people.
I came to say the same thing. It’s a good message but we could improve it by not having too low of a bar. Fuck landlords, everyone should own their housing.
Absolutely. If you’re in the US, and you believe this, make sure you get out and vote in November. Trump wants to make this problem worse.
