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It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.
You can’t pay rent with 11$hr either
Shit u can’t even qualify for a one bedroom with 12/h job
13 either
There was actually a study done a whole back stating that 15 wasn’t enough.
Undercover boss is such a bullshit show
WHY!!!
A boss going through all levels of THEIR company? That should be standard. ALL BOSSES SHOULD KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. That should be everyday. Like, this is your money? This is your company? You own this? You should know it?
But the endings are the worst. They pick like 4-5 employees, decide whether or not they are “worthy” of the money.
These bosses hear, THEY HEAR, their employees say shit like, “I have to work three jobs to support myself.” “I had to work while I was on chemo because I couldn’t afford not too.” “I can’t even afford to take care of my kids on this salary.”
The boss hears this. Gives them money. Tearful thank you from those 4 employees.
What about your hundreds to thousands of other employees?????
Like these greedy manipulative fucks understand that these people NEED money, but they only give an adequate amount to four people???? When everyone in their company needs the company they are dedicating their lives too to care about them?? And pay them a living wage???
Like, how heartless of a person can you be, to know, TO KNOW, TO SEE IT IN YOUR FACE, that your company is working people to death, and you just give some people money for the cameras and tell your other employees to go fuck themselves
it’s nothing but poverty porn, and a way of making people think that bosses aren’t so bad, see, they gave money to these people so they don’t starve how selfless of them!! ignoring the fact that those people (and all the employees) should’ve been getting a living wage in the first place.
Like they portray their hardships as if they arent inherently their fault. Like omfg this person had to work and take care of their dying husband?! That literally would not happen if they gave people adequate healthcare and pay so that when an emergency happens they can take a fucking break. Or the people who say they work three jobs thats because this fucker doesn’t pay a living wage.
Fuck off with your ‘charity’ work when literally being a decent human being would have not created these situations in the first place.
THANK YOU
let’s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they’re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn’t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they’re mad we aren’t just money giving/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be
like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like “millennials aren’t eating cereal and it’s hurting the cereal industry” or “millennials aren’t buying houses and that’s bad” or “millennials #1 utmost priority isn’t trying to make as much money as possible” and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability/nontraditional values as “laziness” gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us
“You are Doing Capitalism Wrong and it scares me” - bitter Boomers to Millennials who are not buying into their shit (or buying their shit)
Keep in mind that the subprime mortgage crisis was at a pretty pivotal time in Millenial’s lives, and taught them that financial institutions are not on your side, will lie to you, and specifically will lie to you about what you can afford. Like, this isn’t coming from nowhere.
I mean boomers refuse to pay a living wage to anyone and then wonder why those people don’t buy anything? I am sorry but what exactly is the disconnect here?
AMC Entertainment’s new CEO Adam Aron wants to appeal to more to millennials by letting them use their phones in theaters.
“When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don’t ruin the movie, they hear ‘please cut off your left arm above the elbow,’” Aron tells Variety. “You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life.” Aron believes that AMC needs “to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives.”
The CEO is aware that his company is “going to have to figure out a way to do it that doesn’t disturb today’s audiences.” When asked whether there might be certain sections that allow texting, Aron replies “That’s one possibility. What may be more likely is we take specific auditoriums and make them more texting-friendly.”
do old ppl honestly think phones are stapled to our hands and we can’t control ourselves for longer than an hour and a half
i hate every literal thing about this right down to the condescending ceo
9 times outta 10 when im at a movie theater and the movie is being disrupted it’s either because a 60 year old won’t shut up or a toddler won’t stop screaming
9 times outta 10 22 year olds are the one shushing people or tellin them to shut the fuck up
How to get millennials to go to the movies more:
1) Retire so we can actually achieve career-level jobs and have some extra cash to go to the movies, AND/OR
2) Pay us a livable minimum wage so we have enough to live on and maybe have some extra cash to go to the movies.
3) Create movies that aren’t all about cis, straight, white people.
4) I mean lowering ticket price would help too
a real job? you mean, like, an internship at the white house?
okay, well what about the national democratic party?
what about interning at the united nations?
wow damn it’s almost like our economy functions on stealing labour from hardworking young people, regardless of whether their jobs are “real” or not
If I offered you $4 to come to my house and make me dinner and wash my dishes afterwards, would you do it? Probably not. But that’s what a minimum wage worker at McDonald’s can do in a half hour.
What about $8 to come over and play with my kid and teach her to read and change her if she needs it and do all other assorted activities for an hour? Again, probably not. But that’s what a day care worker might do in an hour.
If I paid you $4, would you come over and make my bed and vaccume my room and do some of my laundry and clean my bathroom and pick up trash and dust? Probably not but that’s what a hotel maid might do in half an hour.
When you break it down into smaller increments it’s obvious that people need to be paid more, that the minium wage is pathetic.
I work at an organic bakery and realized the extra half hour of work i did today is the equivalent cost of ONE LOAF OF BREAD.
Do you know how many of those i sell in an hour??
i used to be a maid at an econolodge. i could make the bed, vacuum the floor, wash down and scrub the toilet, tile, & tub, swap out the trash, replace the bottles, towels, and toilet paper in half an hour—maybe a little longer for rooms with messier customers and/or if i get laundry requests. that plus having to clean the parking lot and lobby. it was 1 floor to a maid and we had to get them all done in a day and come back the next day to do the same thing.
You can’t even afford a studio apartment in Chicago on minimum wage working 40 hours a week. It’s $10 an hour here. So that would be $400 a week or $1600 a month (not including taxes) Most studios are around $600+ and aren’t even nice or anything special. The rule of thumb is to make 3 times MORE than the price of rent. So you could only afford something that was $525 or less.
@smeghammer here you go.
In the 1970’s, minimum wage for unskilled labor for a 40 hour week allowed the employee to own a car, rent an apartment (without a roommate), pay their utilities, buy their groceries, go to concerts, purchase clothing, go out to dinner, take vacations, further their education and etc.
Why do people complain about “burger flippers” making $15?
Because, large corporations, while pocketing record profits, are now villainizing those same minimum wage workers, who’s labor and hard work earned them those profits.
By not paying a minimum wage that stays in step with the cost of living, the minimum wage workers continually get poorer, while the corporations get richer. They get away with it by convincing some that it’s those “lazy, uneducated minimum wage workers’ fault.
Also did I forget to mention that raising the minimum wage will only increase costs by 23 cents?
I support almost all things Bernie but I have to say I find it hard to think that my $40,000 worth of debt for nursing school and my $15/hr salary that I currently make should be equivalent to someone with a GED working in fast food. Cost of living is going to sky rocket in relation to the minimum wage going up that much, and I don't see how businesses can afford to stay afloat doing this. Please explain to me how this is the same and how my job is the same as someone working at Burger King?
That’s a good question anon. And neither of us feel that we’re educated enough on the topic to speak on it so I’m going to turn this over to our followers who are better versed in economics. Thoughts?
1) nonny, first of all, you should be being paid more than $15 an hour for being a nurse. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation right now it would be around $22 an hour. It hasn’t. It’s $7 an hour. The problem isn’t paying people as much as you, the problem is you are being underpaid. The good news is if your employer wants to keep educated people like yourself, they will have to increase your salary because you will have other options out there that pay better than what they’re giving you if the minimum wage goes up overall.
b) There is no evidence that increasing the minimum wage will increase the cost of living. Cost of living is about the price of groceries, rent, medical care, etc. Rents are already insanely high in the US and that’s because people lost their homes in the 2007-2008 crash. The rental market got flooded with people and rents skyrocketed because demand was so high. There’s a strong possibility that a higher minimum wage, bringing people to a more stable income threshold, will increase home ownership, reducing the number of renters and bringing demand down, also bringing rental costs down too.
Medical care costs are now being controlled thanks to the Affordable Care Act, meaning increasing minimum wage will not increase the cost of health care. There is a chance that increasing the minimum wage could result in slightly higher costs for groceries and dry goods, but the cost of groceries is already going up thanks to the massive drought in California. It is unlikely that a higher minimum wage will push the cost of groceries out of reach for anyone, though. (See the quote below.)
iii) If you by chance meant that “inflation” will rise, not cost of living, it won’t. There is no evidence anywhere that minimum wage increases cause big explosions of inflation. Check out this summary:
Past research on how business costs rise with minimum wage hikes indicates that a 10-percent minimum wage hike can be expected to produce a cost increase for the average business of less than one-tenth of one percent of their sales revenue. This cost figure includes three components. First, mandated raises: the raises employers must give their workers to meet the new wage floor. Second, “ripple-effect” raises: the raises employers give some workers to put their pay rates a bit above the new minimum in order to preserve the same wage hierarchy before and after minimum wage hike. And third, the higher payroll taxes employers must pay on their now-larger wage bill. If the average businesses wanted to completely cover the cost increase from a 10-percent minimum wage hike through higher prices, they would need to raise their prices by less than 0.1 percent.[1]A price increase of this size amounts to marking up a $100 price tag to $100.10.
Finally, the Department of Labor sums up the situation:
Since 1938, the federal minimum wage has been increased 22 times. For more than 75 years, real GDP per capita has steadily increased, even when the minimum wage has been raised.
Every single time a raise in the minimum wage has been proposed, Republicans have screeched about inflation and lost jobs and how it will devastate the economy and it has never happened.
The real problem here is you are being underpaid and your college costs, like mine, were too high. Requiring people who do the work you and I do not want to do to suffer shit wages for doing that work helps nobody.
Jens Rushing (via accidentalambience)
the last one tho.
where was this post three days ago
That last one hit hard
