$15 dollar minimum wage ?

[Chillfolks]

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

No, that doesn't make any sense.

 

[Jay59]

No, that doesn't make any sense.

It makes as much sense as paying a busboy the same as a cook.

 

[swing_voter]

I think the market should determine wages. Don't want to work for $8 an hour? Don't take the job.

 

[Kerry Won Ohio]

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

The answer is neither. Whatever point you're trying to make is a FAIL.

 

[Drawdown]

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

It is only 2+ times the minimum wage.

 

[Casper]

No, that doesn't make any sense.

Nope, not by the same margin but the same increase amount, meaning if the raise for the minimum pay is increased by $3 then everyone's pay goes up by $3, it is State Law here in Texas.

 

[SDET]

That's how it's done in countries with an unstable currency. Your wish may one day come true if the dollar collapses and we have triple digit inflation.

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

 

[Chillfolks]

It is only 2+ times the minimum wage.

No I make well over 3x the current minimum and over double 15

 

[Chillfolks]

No, that doesn't make any sense.

So it doesn't make sense to increase my skilled labour wages if you I'm free none skilled labour? Are you serious or an idiot

 

[ttwtt78640]

So for all those wishing to see minimum wage raised to $15 an hour I have a question. As someone who’s skills and abilities are currently valued at 3+ times the current minimum wage should the law also require my wages increase by the same margin continuing to be 3+ times the $15 minimum or should the value of my skills and abilities be devalued?

Nope, if you now make MW ($7.25/hr) + $14.50/hr ($21.75/hr or 3X MW as you claimed) then you might expect to make $29.50/hr (MW + $14.50/hr) after the MW goes to $15/hr but not the $45/hr that you dream of.

 

[Superfly]

No I make well over 3x the current minimum and over double 15

So why on earth do you care if someone makes $15 an hour? Clearly you are trying to impress people by mentioning twice now how much you make.

How about you mind your own business, and let everybody else mind their own.

 

[Superfly]

So it doesn't make sense to increase my skilled labour wages if you I'm free none skilled labour? Are you serious or an idiot

One could ask the same of you. Your post makes absolutely no sense.

 

[Lethargic Aptitude]

You guys are out of touch with how much wages are these days. Costco for example has a starting wage of 23 bucks an hour. Up in Oregon I have a friend that just started on at a paper mill (with no experience) at 41 bucks an hour.

Its 2019 start living in it.

 

[Brochacholomigo]

You can cry all you want about how your wages need to be a certain portion better than the people who can't afford to feed themselves consistently, but that doesn't actually address the reasons they're in their position. Capitalism is an inherently stable system. Profit is derived from paying workers less than the total sum of their productivity, which means that the working class never has enough money to purchase their own production; the money taken out of circulation by the ultra-rich results in shortfalls in purchasing, resulting in wage depression. At best, in a capitalist system, you can launch something like the confiscatory policies of the New Deal to straighten out the wealth imbalance as best you can, and use it to fund job programs for all of the people the private sector is content leaving behind. Reaganomics has done nothing but create a system of increasingly weak recoveries from the periodic busts that this system causes,and it's high damn time we resume the previous leftist regulations that gave us the robust middle class of the 50's through the 70's.

 

[Lethargic Aptitude]

So it doesn't make sense to increase my skilled labour wages if you I'm free none skilled labour? Are you serious or an idiot

Dude you should chill bwhahaha :lol:

 

[Brochacholomigo]

You guys are out of touch with how much wages are these days. Costco for example has a starting wage of 23 bucks an hour. Up in Oregon I have a friend that just started on at a paper mill (with no experience) at 41 bucks an hour.

Its 2019 start living in it.

I live in rural Georgia, and you're lucky to get a job around eleven to fourteen dollars an hour without a college degree. I'm happy for your friend, though.

 

[Chillfolks]

So why on earth do you care if someone makes $15 an hour? Clearly you are trying to impress people by mentioning twice now how much you make.

How about you mind your own business, and let everybody else mind their own.

Because my pay shouldn't go down. Simple concept. I've spent a lot of time an effort to get to this stage unlike a fry cook

 

[Chillfolks]

Dude you should chill bwhahaha :lol:

90% of the time I am chill but like Big Perm/Worm said ****ing with my money is ****ing with my emotions Smokey

 

[Drawdown]

No I make well over 3x the current minimum and over double 15

Sorry. Misread the 3X as a reference to $15 being a multiple of the current MW. Anyway, no you shouldn't get your pay increased proportionally. You should be fired and replaced with a robot.

 

[mike2810]

When did entry level jobs at a fast food place should be a living wage job? Around my area a majority of workers are teenagers who live at home.

When MW becomes $15/hr, the more experience workers with greater responsibilities/skill should have a fair proportional raise. If not you are devaluing the more experienced workers worth.

imo, entry level jobs were never meant to be a "living wage".

 

[Superfly]

Because my pay shouldn't go down. Simple concept. I've spent a lot of time an effort to get to this stage unlike a fry cook

Your pay doesn’t go down simply because their pay goes up. You are just whining unnecessarily for something that will not affect you at all.

You are probably the first one to complain about subsidies to low-income families, too.

 

[Helix]

i support debt free access to post secondary education or job training for everyone while indexing the current minimum wage to inflation. also, minimum wage should apply to everyone including restaurant employees. however, raising the wage to fifteen or twenty bucks in one fell swoop won't be met with raises for those who are currently at that level, and they in turn will suffer.

 

[mike2810]

Your pay doesn’t go down simply because their pay goes up. You are just whining unnecessarily for something that will not affect you at all.

You are probably the first one to complain about subsidies to low-income families, too.

I take it your point is from a liberal point of view. By raising the MW worker to $15/hr and not raise supervisors/more skilled workers you are devaluing the supervisor/more skilled worker. I find it very hard to believe you would accept that a entry level worker is paid almost as much as you if you were an experience worker or supervisor.

 

[SDET]

Texas already has ya' covered! A semester of Community College is about a grand.

i support debt free access to post secondary education or job training for everyone while indexing the current minimum wage to inflation. also, minimum wage should apply to everyone including restaurant employees. however, raising the wage to fifteen or twenty bucks in one fell swoop won't be met with raises for those who are currently at that level, and they in turn will suffer.