RE: Walmart throws a bone
February 23, 2015 at 12:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2015 at 12:59 pm by Brian37.)
(February 23, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: "On top of that, Walmart already pays nearly all of its employees more than the minimum wage. The AP reports that less than 6,000 of its 2.1 million employees currently make the federal minimum."
Well yipee yahoo! A lot of states have higher than the federal minimum wage, and it is still not a liveable wage for a lot of single parent families. Even just the basics.
Yea no shit. In more expensive locations even with two parent families it isnt enough.
Livable wages should be based on 40 hour weeks and enough for one person to pay the bills, single or married. That way if you have a roomate, or if you are married or single, you make enough to cover your bills and save.
But the way raises or federal increases go up now, those are used to increase prices and or decrease hours. That is not helping. That is simply big business blackmailing society.
What we need now is a livable wage and lower prices.
(February 23, 2015 at 12:22 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Coming from a middle class family, the rich and conservatives seriously need to stop saying to poor people that if they weren't so lazy and worked harder it would all be alright. If you've never been poor please refrain from making idiotic generalizations and minimizing trouble people face. There are no equal opportunities, people are conditioned since birth, and poor people are no exception
Well I am not against laziness, that is why people own businesses, because they do not want to work hard.
It is much easier to spend long hours on something when you own it than it is to work under the constraints for someone else.
Life is not either or for me. It is not all work or all luck, both work and overlap. And even if someone refuses to work, it is still cheaper to house them and feed them than criminalize poverty.
Now that certainly isn't claiming no one should work, just that our pay gap is killing us and while it takes all classes, there does need to be a more stable environment for all. There is no danger in a nanny state by addressing economic stability.
I find it absurd to use the term "hard work" when we invent things to make our lives easier. Productivity should be about making things easier, not harder.
