Which is precisely why Zohran is necessary.
When are we going to stop caring about human rights and start caring about billionaires???
This is a case of:
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Corporate greed (“we could profit 18 billion and pay our workers a fair wage, or profit 30 billion and give them peanuts and lobby govt. to keep it that way”).
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Tipping culture run amok (“let’s guilt the consumer into paying their wages via tips on top of what we already charge them for the service, rather than simply paying them a wage or salary for their labor to begin with, and adjusting what we charge and what we profit accordingly”).
They say you grow more conservative as you age. That’s not happening to me. We need more labor unions. And Zohran must win NYC.
I’m just getting angrier and more pitchforky as I get older! If my old teachers who said that shit were still alive I’d be shrieking how no, no I did absolutely not get more conservative damn it.
We need more competently run labor unions in NYC. Thank God 1199 just ousted their scumbag thief president.
That stain had the union backing Cuomo of all people.
Cuomo is a corrupt parasite who took kick backs to cover up the excess death in retirement communities during covid. Then when he got caught, he go ousted for grabbing ass… not to downplay sexual harassment but dead people is a felony. And he never even got charged with the harassment, just resigned like nothing happened and already trying to sleeze his way in back into politics.
Someone mentioned “growing more conservative” could mean holding on to the gains, specifically material gains. Like, one of the key contributing factors to the housing crisis is NIMBYism. Plenty of house owners are maybe socially progressive and feel bad about injustice; but many of them, especially old people, vote down proposals to build affordable housing because it affects their property value. If I bought a house for €300k and in thirty years it is now worth €16 million. I would not even mind if the house value depreciates by one or two million, or even ten. What am I even going to do with that much money? If my net worth is six million, that is more than enough for me.
I think when the right say “becoming more conservative” as one grows older, it seems like a coded phrase to mean becoming greedy. And it seems to be the case that could happen to everyone regardless of whether one is left or right when they were younger. Which makes me realise that this is the point Squid Game is making.
It’s not even that much of a gap. They’ll crush their employees under the weight of dozen elephants if it nets them an extra 5%.
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Are Americans aware of what “minimal wage” means? I’m starting to have some doubts.
In short, no. No we don’t. Please send help.
A lot of people don’t believe jobs should make a living wage. They argue that if you want to make enough money to survive, you should get an education or work your way up out of entry level, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they’ve made education wildly expensive and that minimum wage is so outdated that in some places you can make double or triple minimum wage and still not be considered making enough to survive as a single adult with no dependents (I make over 3x minimum wage and rent on a small 1 bedroom apartment is over half my paycheck, if I don’t work OT shifts I don’t go grocery shopping that month). They also like to complain that no one wants to work anymore. My personal take is that if a job is worthwhile enough to society that someone needs to do it, that person deserves to make enough to survive, but apparently that’s a wildly socialist take in this country.
No we literally do not.
It is pretty much impossible to afford a studio apartment almost anywhere in the country with a full time, min wage job.
Our guidelines for what counts as poverty are a total joke.
I live off of about 24k a year while I am recovering from a bunch of injuries, and most states do not consider that poor enough to qualify for pretty much any assistance.
We also just gutted Section 8, so basically about 5 to 10 million people are gonna become homeless by the end of the year.
There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.
Adams is dumb enough to do it too, even though that’s just going to make more people switch to Mamdani
Maybe he’ll get free delivery out of it.
Minimum wages?? Nah we need to pay them LESS -every CEO
I like it when people say “if it wasn’t for the minimum wage companies would pay more”.
If they thought they could get away with it, they wouldn’t pay you at all.
Guess they don’t have what it takes to stay in business.
Maybe they could get better at it.
No no no!
We need food deserts and just barely not literally slave labor wages!
How else could Instacart generate profits for billionaires?
Think of the yachts that will never be laid down, you sick, sick bastards!
