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post 1565835951 11-09-2018, 05:19 PM
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I literally cant even find a job that pays minimum wage. Bussers at my PT job only make $8/hour but they get tips too. most fast food places around here start at $9-10/hour.

Any 14-16 year old can get a job paying at least $8-9/hour.

I look in the paper and listen to radio ads and see/hear TONS of jobs starting at $16-18+/hour. Economy is booming, jobs everywhere, They cant fill them.

What grown adult is making minimum wage?!?!?
post 1565835981 11-09-2018, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted By JonEh10⏩
The point is employers will do whatever it takes to not lose money in order to pay their workers more.
This, and it usually results in chittier working conditions/employees becoming overworked due to being understaffed to so it even suks ass if you get to keep your minimum wage job.
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post 1565836041 11-09-2018, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted By JewishSuperHero⏩
then we raise the minimum wage again.

my point is that things are becoming more expensive regardless. but wages are not increasing. it goes beyond minimum wage. i make $78k as an engineer right now. my friend’s dad was making the same amount when he was my age as an engineer in 1983. yet he bought his first house for $70k and his college tuition was like $15 per credit hour.
you can keep raising minimum wage until everybody else is making 78k and houses cost 2 billion dollars +
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post 1565836121 11-09-2018, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted By Better
you can keep raising minimum wage until everybody else is making 78k and houses cost 2 billion dollars +
Stop trying to explain it...you’re wasting your breathe.
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post 1565836141 11-09-2018, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted By bobbydigitaloa⏩
Well, companies aren’t going to accept less money in their pockets so they $5 value meal becomes $12.
Bro if McDonald's could get away with charging $12 for a value meal they would have done it already. Why do most people not understand that the cost to produce a good has very little bearing on its retail price?
post 1565836341 11-09-2018, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Bro if McDonald's could get away with charging $12 for a value meal they would have done it already. Why do most people not understand that the cost to produce a good has very little bearing on its retail price?
in canada a 10 pc nugget meal super sized is more than 11$
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post 1565836361 11-09-2018, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Bro if McDonald's could get away with charging $12 for a value meal they would have done it already. Why do most people not understand that the cost to produce a good has very little bearing on its retail price?
Make whatever argument you want...raising the minimum wage to some stupid number will give them a reason lol
Originally Posted By BrainChild⏩
in canada a 10 pc nugget meal super sized is more than 11$
That’s that funny money thou...
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post 1565836491 11-09-2018, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted By bobbydigitaloa⏩
Make whatever argument you want...raising the minimum wage to some stupid number will give them a reason lol



That’s that funny money thou...
on a serious note. it's not.
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post 1565836571 11-09-2018, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted By bobbydigitaloa⏩
It doesn’t affect me. I made money at my old job and wanted more so I got a new job and I make more than that and it’s only increasing.

Don’t like you’re situation, change it...amazing how that works huh? Feel free to apply that to almost anything.
so it doesn’t affect you. that’s your reasoning. do you care about any issues that don’t affect you personally or is it just this one?
post 1565836601 11-09-2018, 05:26 PM
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only people against it are those well off.
There is only one Hell: the one we live in now.
post 1565836651 11-09-2018, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted By JewishSuperHero⏩
so it doesn’t affect you. that’s your reasoning. do you care about any issues that don’t affect you personally or is it just this one?
Name one and I’ll tell you...
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post 1565836881 11-09-2018, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
only people against it are those well off.
eh.... i’m in the construction industry. and i meet a lot of non-trade construction workers who are against it too. talking about guys who make like $9.50 an hour.
post 1565837051 11-09-2018, 05:33 PM
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ppl on the misc have no idea how the economy works. thinking raising the minimum will have no impact on the rest of the job market.
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post 1565837081 11-09-2018, 05:34 PM
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My state will make minimum wage $15, pretty much doubling what it was a decade previous. We'll see how this goes
post 1565837261 11-09-2018, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted By 128⏩
My state will make minimum wage $15, pretty much doubling what it was a decade previous. We'll see how this goes
i will tell you. More unemployed ppl from 14-17. They will join gangs cause nothing to do and sell drugs or other illegal things to make money.
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post 1565837281 11-09-2018, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted By BrainChild⏩
ppl on the misc have no idea how the economy works. thinking raising the minimum will have no impact on the rest of the job market.
job market in bc is already garbage. the only jobs available are warehouse jobs. unless you live in the mountains.
There is only one Hell: the one we live in now.
post 1565837361 11-09-2018, 05:38 PM
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Just think in another 15 years 18% of jobs will be taken over by AI.
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post 1565837411 11-09-2018, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
job market in bc is already garbage
lol bc hate? you prob from alberta.
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post 1565837441 11-09-2018, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
job market in bc is already garbage. the only jobs available are warehouse jobs. unless you live in the mountains.
oh and bc has the lowest

Unemployment rate by province, March 2018
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Newfoundland and Labrador 14.2
Prince Edward Island 10.3
New Brunswick 8.0
Nova Scotia 7.4
Alberta 6.3
Manitoba 6.2
Saskatchewan 5.8
Canada 5.8
Quebec 5.6
Ontario 5.5
British Columbia 4.7
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post 1565837671 11-09-2018, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
job market in bc is already garbage. the only jobs available are warehouse jobs. unless you live in the mountains.
lol you sour cause no one would hire you?
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post 1565837681 11-09-2018, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted By JewishSuperHero⏩
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What top .1% people are shopping at retail locations staffed by minimum wage workers? It screws the middle class. Ignoring this is functionally retarded.
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post 1565837731 11-09-2018, 05:43 PM
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What top .1% people are shopping at retail locations staffed by minimum wage workers?It screws the middle class. Ignoring this is functionally retarded.
stats that prove that?
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If your business is doing so poorly that raising the minimum wage is affecting it, that's on you not the raise.

It has also not been the case that raising the minimum wage adversely affects anything but the businesses that were going to go out of business anyways. Every time we have this discussion, if the wage goes up, none of what people in this thread are saying actually happens.
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Originally Posted By Jaroctor⏩
If your business is doing so poorly that raising the minimum wage is affecting it, that's on you not the raise.
this is what the fuk is wrong with millennials. have no idea what it takes to run a business. they just want government hand outs. free school, free transit, free everything. damn the top 1 percenters hogging all the money.
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Originally Posted By bobbydigitaloa⏩
Well, companies aren’t going to accept less money in their pockets so they $5 value meal becomes $12.
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post 1565838001 11-09-2018, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted By BrainChild⏩
i will tell you. More unemployed ppl from 14-17. They will join gangs cause nothing to do and sell drugs or other illegal things to make money.
I forgot to add they've been raising it annually from eight bucks by a dollar every year, still see "now hiring" signs at every fast food even though our minimum wage its at $12 atm, will another 3 bucks over a few years bring drastic change? Time will tell
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Originally Posted By Jaroctor⏩
If your business is doing so poorly that raising the minimum wage is affecting it, that's on you not the raise.

It has also not been the case that raising the minimum wage adversely affects anything but the businesses that were going to go out of business anyways. Every time we have this discussion, if the wage goes up, none of what people in this thread are saying actually happens.
read the fukcing thread. I already said what happens.

a company with 15 employees will cut 5 employees to retain the same monthly profit. The owner only cares about keeping the business profitable. now 5 people are jobless. There tons of other affects too. Mcdonalds cut staff for computers. the list goes on
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post 1565838171 11-09-2018, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted By Jaroctor⏩
If your business is doing so poorly that raising the minimum wage is affecting it, that's on you not the raise.
The same could be said about the people who are in their 30s trying to support 3 children, still working a minimum wage job. That's on them, and not the government/people who didn't continually make bad life decisions.
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Originally Posted By JewishSuperHero⏩
“if you raise the minimum wage then the price of everything else will go up!”

costs of living have been increasing anyway.it’s been that way since forever.but wages have largely stagnated since the early 80s. why would anyone want it to stay that way?
Simply untrue. Aggregate prices were relatively flat from 1810-1910. Value of the dollar went down about 96% from 1914-2014.

What changed, you ask? A certain tribe implemented central banking, that’s what.
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Originally Posted By JewishSuperHero⏩
stats that prove that?
Stats to prove your original nonsense claim?
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