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[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;44894308]Never change facepunch.... Today I learned its somehow societies fault people stay in low paying dead end jobs. Seriously though- children can get jobs making minimum wage. So when an adult claims they can't do any better I tend to think- unmotivated, mental issues, drug/ alcohol issues. I can see minimum wage as your first job, or in a bad economy jumping around a few minimum wage jobs. But two years latter still making minimum wage? There's no rational reason for this.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Helix Snake;44893558]I see that same bullshit a lot from conservatives like him. The implication is "The only reason you're a liberal (and support rights for the poor) is because you're not rich, and the only reason you're not rich is because you're lazy."[/QUOTE] heheh, like a glove.
[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;44894067]I like your train of thought! But seriously, people don't like my ideas because I try to find solutions that don't require a redistribution of wealth.[/QUOTE] The problem is, thanks to the free market the redistribution of wealth is already happening, but in the upwards direction. The richest people are the people with the most power over the flow of money, and they use that power to make more money and power flow towards them (and towards other rich people), and this results in the increasing wealth disparity in America. How do you suggest fixing that without the government getting involved? The free market isn't going to fix it, it's the thing causing the problems in the first place.
[QUOTE=Comrade_Eko;44893351]Even though I would LOVE minimum wage to go up, I don't even think that's the main problem. Companies give crap hours, so 20 if you're lucky. That isn't enough so you find a second job, they offer 20 hours but because you have another job you can only take 15 of those hours. 35 a week on 7 an hour still isn't enough so you find another job that only has 10 compatible hours. In all you only work 45 hours yet somehow you wake up at 7 and go to bed at 12 with no days off. There should be incentives to fix that crap. I worked for 5 an hour before yet made more there than I ever did before I started college. When you get 72-84 hours a week 5 bucks is enough to survive. But 10 dollars for 20 a week is nothing.[/QUOTE] I don't know about you but at Burger King I can easily get 60 hours a WEEK if I really wanted to slave away that much.
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