Regardless of who is sitting in the White House, I see a dark future where even the most Spartan of apartments are leased to people making at least $20/hr, and everyone else is stuck living wherever they will be allowed to park their cars (if they even own one) for longer than a night.
Unless you are living in a rural area with no jobs, that is certainly not true.
You can put it this way though: at $9/hr you've better odds at surviving in midwest than both coasts.
Thinking about raising a family? Thinking about better lives for your kids? Thinking about a decent vacation a year? Thinking you'll be fine after a single medical mishap? At $9/hr, No sir.
Except in most midwest towns you can easily find work at a warehouse or distribution center for $15-20/hr, while having homes that cost around $150k be pretty common.
yea but someone has to do the low level jobs, what if every fast food worker and server "improved their skills to make more than 9$" we'd have no restaurants... the people who work there deserve a living wage
All you boot lickers have zero economic understanding. It doesn't matter what the intent of the job is. If people aren't willing to do it for that wage, then the market is responsible, not the individual. It's called a demand curve, but apparently economics isn't taught in whatever shithole you grew up in.
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u/Gloomheart 27d ago
Christ, I've not been on 9 bucks an hour since high school, twenty years ago. I don't know how people are managing :(