Dr Kynes
Well-Known Member
Gotta say, though, your math is tight.
fucked up my math somehow the other day, so i been double checking my shit.
Gotta say, though, your math is tight.
Come on, meow. You know what I'm jabbering about, here. Paying the "lower classes" what they deserve will help everyone. More dough for the dummies means more spending, means more money for you biddness owners.
See that's true.
But its only a band aid for an amputated limb.
Problem is the "dummies" are the government class in legislature.
And they get first dibs before inflation unlike lower class me and you.
Its like your butler being in charge of your household budget, which you put him in charge of.
Assuming your butler took a dying oath to act with your money as a fiduciary according to the rules.
But they are usurpers.
Ignorant of what money is, which it is their JOB to know.
They create "capital" out of thin air unlike me or you.
They have awesome healthcare unlike lower class me and you.
Printing "money" corrupts rather quickly.
Now we beg the servant class for some of their corruptness
Now we beg the servant class for some of their corruptness
can you blame us?
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"full time work" mopping floors or washing dishes has NEVER earned a living wage.
if it did then dishwashers and floor moppers would never need to get better jobs.
your transparent self serving agenda is just an attempt to shake the money tree (somebody else's money tree at that) so you can get a tradesman's wage for asking "You want fries with that?".
if you can make a carpenter's wage slinging fries, how much more do you think carpenters deserve? so now building a house is more expensive.
plumbers need more too, suddenly a clogged toilet becomes a financial decision: crap in a bucket or take a second mortgage?
aircraft mechanics will need more too, so your plane ticket just went up.
you dont consider the implications of your agenda, a common failing with the occupy-tards.
The job is irrelevant, if you work full time, you should earn a living wage. How can you reasonably argue with that?
If you're making a living wage and/or are comfortable working as a carpenter, why would what a fast food employee makes have any significance to you at all? Exactly like you said, your wage is based on your skill/education level, not what somebody in some other occupation is making
and if you can make the same wage flipping burgers or washing dishes, why bother learning carpentry or plumbing or any other trade?
you fail to understand capitalism as an objective source of motivation.
why bother crawling in the mud, snaking pipes full of shit, or sweating in the sun with a hammer and saw when you can make the same wage comfortably ensconced in a starbucks making frappuccinos?
you WANT tradesman's wages but dont care that those tradesmen work harder than a guy standing behind the counter at a 7-11.
Oh I totally blame us.
Our job to check them.
Letting a hot girl take advantage of you financially being a requisite to her services is a myth.
Lots of hot girls out there willing to trade equally.
Seems I remember this being the beginning or close to the beginning of Aquarius?
raising the minimum wage to $8.10/hour would do very little since most states already have a minimum wage law that is close to that number or higher.
if you happen to live in georgia or alabama and make minimum wage, raisng the minimum wage by $2.35/hour might seem like a windfall, and suddenly you can afford to lease that prius you have been wanting, but after a very short time, all the things you buy will cost more.
"corporations" and "business owners" dont pay the wages, those are an expense. those expenses are paid by their customers.
while you may feel prosperous as fuck with that extra $94 in your weekly pay packet, that $94 will vanish like a fart in the wind when you have to pay more for everything, and due to the vagaries of Cost Accounting, every new expense must have a profit attached, so youll soon be spending $100 more per week for your necessities, making your sweet new pay increase into an effective pay decrease.
thats how the world works. when costs go up, prices go up, when costs go down, prices stay the same, but profits increase.
driving MORE inflation (even "short term" inflation) is retarded.
if you want more money, get a better job.
trying to vote yourself the right to pick somebody else's pocket wont do shit for you, since the guy youre robbing will simply charge more for his goods to refill his pockets.
I disagree with you that the only reason people learn things is for financial gain
We'd still have carpenters, we'd still have doctors and lawyers, society would go on.
You offer nothing but hyperbole with again, no evidence to back anything up...
and if you can make the same wage flipping burgers or washing dishes, why bother learning carpentry or plumbing or any other trade?
what a fun chart.
"poverty thresholds were inflated form the 2012 census based on cbo projected inflation projections, which were based on cbo projections and proposals to do shit that wont make a lick of difference, assuming everybody works 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year and assuming the author is not an idiot"
the REAL numbers:
1968 (the first year there actually was an official "Poverty Line" )
poverty line for a family of 4: $4235.00/year. (not adjusted for inflation, which we totally dont have anyway...) source: (a)
federal minimum hourly wage: $1.62 source: (b)
so, 40 hours a week x 52 weeks/year x $1.62 hourly minimum wage = $3369.60
ZOMG THAT'S BELOW THE POVERTY LINE!1!!!!!11!!!!!one !!!!1!!!!uno!!!!!!!!11!
No Shit Sherlock. the minimum wage was never intended to be a "living wage" or a tradesman's wage. it was instituted to prevent "exploitation" of desperate people, but in a town with ZERO jobs, even a shitty job paying less than $5/hour is a welcome thing, why do you think mexicans come to america to pick lettuce for $0.10 a bushel?
the poverty line for a family of four in 2013 is $23550.00 (5x higher. nope, no inflation there folks... ) source: (c)
the federal minimum wage is currently $5.75/hour.
so, 40 hours a week x 52 weeks/year x $5.75 min hourly wage = $11960.00 (3.59 x higher than 1968. yep. the feds are doing a great job keeping up with the inflation that we dont have...)
if you assume that 1968 (those glorious halcyon days liberals love to look back on with wistful tears) is the benchmark, then the federal minimum wage should be raised to $8.10/hour (exactly 5x the 1968 minimum wage, to account for the inflation we dont have)
while this means certain people in alabama and wyoming will be getting a pay increase, it wont do shit in most states which already have rates close to, or above $8.10/hour.
arguing for a DOUBLING of the minimum wage to $12 or $14/hour will simply fuck over an already shaky small business economy, and will shutter businesses with tight margins and high labour costs (like food service).
even raising the minimum wage to $8.10 will result in more illegal alien hiring to dodge the wage increase (and the comensurate increases in payroll taxes, SS, Medicare, disability,unemployment, etc) which will drive MORE unemployment.
until we have nearly zero unemployment, raising the minimum wage will only spur more inflation, and more unemployment.
(a)https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/thresh68.html
(b)http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/stateMinWageHis.htm
(c)http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm
ORLY?
nothing to back it up?
are YOU gonna spend 4 years as an apprentice (making the hypothetical minimum wage of $14/hour) to become a journeyman to gain the same wage of $14/ hour, when you can sit on your hump in a burger joint flipping patties for the sdame $14/hour, without having to suffer the heat, the noise the sweat and the exertion of carpentry?
no. i didnt think so.
you gonna dig trenches and cut out broken sewer lines for $14/ hour when you can make the same $14/hour mopping the floor of a porno theatre?
nope, didnt think so.
only communist believe that equal pay for all, regardless of skill education, work ethic or difficulty will result in magical inducement to take the hard or unpleasant jobs with the same pay.
why do you think garbage men make much more than minimum wage?
To expand on this point; ...because people want to.
Removing the burden of spending at a minimum 8 hours of every day for survival, people would be free to put that time towards learning new skills, inventing things, creating new art, etc. Do you think people would just be laying around taking naps and eating grapes in hammocks all day? I do these things in my spare time with the burden, it's absurd to think nobody would be around to do these things if there were the same financial incentive as working a full time job.
are YOU gonna spend 4 years as an apprentice (making the hypothetical minimum wage of $14/hour) to become a journeyman to gain the same wage of $14/ hour, when you can sit on your hump in a burger joint flipping patties for the sdame $14/hour, without having to suffer the heat, the noise the sweat and the exertion of carpentry?
you gonna dig trenches and cut out broken sewer lines for $14/ hour when you can make the same $14/hour mopping the floor of a porno theatre?
only communist believe that equal pay for all, regardless of skill education, work ethic or difficulty will result in magical inducement to take the hard or unpleasant jobs with the same pay.
Do you really hang your pot over a litter box to make it smell like Catpiss, do you not know that the characteristics of Catpiss are genetic?you are one stupid mother fucker.
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you have no evidence to support the idea that people will run off to become plumbers so they can come home stinking of shit, or get up at 3 AM to collect garbage, or sweat their balls off in the sun building houses if the same pay can be had in a burger king.
Do you really hang your pot over a litter box to make it smell like Catpiss, do you not know that the characteristics of Catpiss are genetic?