m_fMA to AskUSAEnglish · 12 days agoWhat do you think minimum wage should be?imagemessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up179arrow-down1imageWhat do you think minimum wage should be?m_fMA to AskUSAEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square85linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGoretantath@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·12 days ago72 bucks. Read somewhere a little under that is what the buying power of our grandparents was when they could afford a house and comfortable life with a wife with a single job, so 72 since the billionaires have too much anyway.
minus-squareMrRubik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 days agoI was going to say $73 but you’re right that would be way too much! $72 is perfect.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoBut we can’t pay our workers 73 dollars per year! We’d go bankrupt! Nobody wants to work any more…
72 bucks. Read somewhere a little under that is what the buying power of our grandparents was when they could afford a house and comfortable life with a wife with a single job, so 72 since the billionaires have too much anyway.
I was going to say $73 but you’re right that would be way too much! $72 is perfect.
But we can’t pay our workers 73 dollars per year! We’d go bankrupt!
Nobody wants to work any more…