As I said above, an ideal federal minimum wage is enough to live on in the state with the lowest cost of living.

But if it never goes up, oh well. Not like it matters to you.

You really don’t follow. I’m not defending inequality. I’m stating an economic fact that increasing the federal minimum wage too much will not only fail to provide a livable wage, but it will also put more people below the poverty line due to the increased cost of domestic goods and services provided at the new higher wages. More people would be on SNAP as well as working full time due to the increased cost of our food supply chain.

Right. You got yours. Fuck us flyover morlocks.

And therefore an hour of my life is worth less than an hour of yours.

Permanent underclass of flyover morlocks.

Unless they’re the flyover states whose residents you want to keep poor.

That’s precisely why states set their own minimum wage, which is unfortunately below representative of the difference in cost of living.

So how low is low enough for you? How exploited do you want to see everyone?

As I said above, I am the exploited.

Let’s pretend you are. Then we both are. You’re just making excuses for those that exploit you.

If your state’s minimum wage isn’t 7.25/hr with 2.13/hr tipped, don’t act like others should settle for less when you don’t have to.

It’s barely enough in the poorest state, how is that acceptable to you?

Because they’re not in rich states, so their lives have no value.

Given there’s lots of states still sitting at $7.25, $17 is certainly a step in the right direction.

Yeah, but centrists like having a permanent underclass to exploit.

The Republicans being full on traitors derelict in their duty to the Constitution doesn’t mean the Democrats attempting to hold that shit accountable was just for show.

No. Appointing Garland as AG means that democrats were never interested in the slightest in holding that shit accountable.

It’s odd. when democrats were pulling out all the stops to prop up coathanger cuellar, the reason given was that a progressive can’t win in texas.

cuellar just voted with republicans to disenfranchise millions. Like a good centrist, he aspires to capitulate to republicans’ slightest whim.

As I said above, I’d prefer that we all had a livable wage. That’s not feasible with our current economic system.

How convenient for those of you who have already gotten theirs.

This remains democrats’ last word on the minimum wage.

Or the federal minimum needs to be based on what shit actually costs regionally, and not just a single number for all 50 states.

“Got mine, fuck you.”

They only mention livable wages when they are not in a position to do anything about it.

In fairness, this was just as unlikely to pass under democrats.

You want a permanent underclass of flyover morlocks to exploit.

If they wielded power when we gave it to them, they might not have lost.

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I’ve seen enough WWII movies to know what a stalag looks like.

Depends on how fundamentalist you are.

How many bullet holes are yours?