It makes me so angry how badly people devalue labor.

@SW-User A gas station job or fast food job is not important or considered valuable labor. Therefore they can get away with low pay.

@SW-User Basically, the concept of "You work full time but what you do really isn't that important so you don't deserve to get paid." So, you're a barista at Starbucks or something and people will tell you that if you don't make enough money to support yourself despite working full time at Starbucks, it's because the work you do isn't worth anything so you don't deserve any money anyway.

@JaggedLittlePill oh.. so it’s the arrogant’s opinion then

@BlueMetalChick okay... and I definitely understand your point.
But what would you propose?

@SW-User Either setting a minimum wage which is a living wage or allowing collective bargaining for pay standards.

@BlueMetalChick again, while I don’t disagree... and while the minimum wage definitely needs increasing.. it will eventually be a ripple effect in the economy. The cost of goods and services rises when wages are increased... That triggers cost of living rising as well. Then everything is back to the struggle it was
The adjustment needs to happen from the top...
it seems all the wealthy want to continue capping the minimum wage yet the super wealthy never have limits

@BlueMetalChick we have a living wage in the UK. How people can live on that, I dont know:(

@SW-User The UK has its head screwed on a little straighter than we do here in the States. We do nothing but diarrhea all over people who work jobs and instead give all the money to people who have never worked a day in their lives. Just yesterday, Sean Hannity was bitching about his taxes. His yearly profit is $36,000,000 and he has a net worth of $220,000,000. He was whining about the prospect of only making a profit of $15,000,000 yearly because that's not enough.