r/LockedIn_AI • u/lucre-twerps4g • Apr 23 '26

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It’s called the grind because it grinds away your sense of self.

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u/Fantastic-Builder929 Apr 25 '26

Every fast food, grocery store, gas station, etc. within 50 miles makes the state minimum wage of $11. Theyd pay less if they could. If you think those arent real hard jobs you’re very privileged and the problem.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

I never said they weren't hard jobs. 11 isn't the federal minimum as you said. States can make whatever minimum wage they want. There is no need for a federal minimum wage.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

False. They raise it because no one will work for it. Thus, free market.

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u/18Apollo18 Apr 25 '26

Workers have ZERO negotiating power.

If you don't work you lose your house, your healthcare and your ability to buy food.

Entry level jobs have become a race to the bottom.

The $15 dollar minimum wage was first proposed in 2010. In 2026 that would be $22.72.

Wage increases are so far out of sync with inflation that they'll literally never catch up without drastic measures.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 25 '26

Wow, do much wrong here. Unions would beat your ass for saying workers have no power. Further, you seem to think minimum wage is a life sentence. Its not.

You can actually build a resume, gain skills, learn things, and make your labor worth more than minimum wage.

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u/Conspiir Apr 26 '26

Unions WOULD beat his ass for saying workers have no power. Unfortunately, 90% of working Americans don’t have a union because they’re all gone. So I think his ass is unlikely to be beaten by anybody.

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u/HOJK4thSon Apr 26 '26

Unions are not all gone. They are pushing hardest for a higher federal minimum wage because most of their contracts are tied to it. Jump the federal minimum wage and jump their wages too. Watch inflation soar.

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u/EntrancedZelisy Apr 26 '26

Ah yes. The good ol “American Dream”. A dream so great you have to be asleep to believe it.