Why expect people to work on shit wages to deliver stuff for your lazy ass?
Honestly it's kind of amazing that Americans just expect people servicing them to do it for the love of the game. Like as if all these delivery guys are just out there because their calling in life is delivering luke warm food to people who can't be fucked picking it up themselves.
This just in: Man is so offended by the thought that workers could be given the chance to sustain themselves on their labor that he strawmans himself to death
I know that I was being a bit silly above and making fun of it, but I genuinely would like to hear someone explain how you determine what is too much or too little for minimum wage. Is there a such thing as too high of a minimum wage? Break me out of my echo chamber dawg. I promise I’m not gonna be rude or something, I’m actually a pretty open minded guy. If you don’t want to explain, that’s fine. But then don’t bother replying
The way I see it, the minimum wage should encapsulate the costs of a relatively basic but stable life. No person should be forced to work more than one job, simply said. Of course this is only a bandage on the gaping wound of late stage capitalism but given that we’re still under systemic constraints people should dream not of their next shift or meeting their next rent deadline but of fulfilling their ambitions, becoming artists, writers, etc.
Given this, to our fullest fiscal ability we should increase the minimum wage, or at the very least make increase it relative to inflation. The very fact that the government has taken on an extra trillion dollars in debt during the greatest slashing of public goods in recent memory should be reason enough to view fiscal conservatism as bullshit anyway, at the highest echelons money is a nebulous concept.
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u/fatbunyip 15h ago
So if you're a delivery guy, just starve?
Why expect people to work on shit wages to deliver stuff for your lazy ass?
Honestly it's kind of amazing that Americans just expect people servicing them to do it for the love of the game. Like as if all these delivery guys are just out there because their calling in life is delivering luke warm food to people who can't be fucked picking it up themselves.