"They'll just raise prices if thy raise the minimum wage."

[Chad32]

But why should it be necessary to get raises just so you don't have to work overtime, or multiple jobs, to make ends meat?

Why are you entitled to a 40 hour work week and no more?

When we were swinging from the trees, we worked as hard as necessary to make our nut. Do you think early hunter/gatherers stopped hunting and gathering after 8 hours and took two days off whether or not they found food? Negative Chad...they kept going and going if that is what they needed to do to survive.

There is nothing intrinsically wrong about having to work overtime if that is what is required to sustain your existence.

I doubt that hunters and gatherers worked from dawn until dusk if they didn't have to. My job is not my life. My job is there so I can have a nice life and do what I want. If I work 12+ hours a day, 5-6 days a week, I have little energy left to do anything else besides eat and sleep. Why should that ever be acceptable?

I can understand doing it if you absolutely have to, but no one should have to live like that.