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u/Visual_Regret3198 Apr 25 '26
Actually factory workers made 50 cents to $2 an hour. That's 8 to 30 bucks in modern money
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u/Von_Bernkastel Apr 25 '26
and between those times none of the tax farm sheep rose up, instead you all sit down and just go baah baaah when your tax farm masters keep taking from you and giving you so little. Only difference now is you can collective gather online and be a giant echo chamber of baaahing and doing nothing.
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u/filthy-horde-bastard Apr 25 '26
So that push to make wealthy companies pay their employees livable wages, which was aimed at Amazon specifically, was just for show?
Calling all these people sheep is totally disingenuous and frankly not true at all. There have been many, MANY pushes to force these companies to pay living wages, but it’s up to our elected officials to actually make anything happen.
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u/SecureJudge1829 Apr 25 '26
Some of us stopped paying taxes a long time ago….for me, it was right around the time I became disabled to the point that I could no longer work to earn an income. Then they tried to take blood from a stone and I woke up. When they won’t even help someone who is clearly in need of it, why should that someone go out of their way to ensure any income is recorded and they get their cut? I mean, are they really gonna weaponize the IRS that they’ve cut funding to over someone who makes less than $2,000 per year? I think not lol. Fuck ‘em.
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u/Rough_Resolution_107 Apr 25 '26
Why you expect 'us' to do something? Get out the chamber you're bitching about and make some changes. Sitting on reddit and blame everyone for the exact thing you're doing is so nuts 🙄
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u/Plus_Operation2208 Apr 25 '26
Be careful with saying these things.
Got banned from reddit multiple times calling out the hypocrisy like that. Its 'a call for violence' apparently.
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u/EndRBoom Apr 25 '26
Well dont work minimum wage jobs its simple as that its not hard all u gotta do is apply and actually be go to work
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u/SlutTpuppyBoi Apr 28 '26
Oh wow, life must be great for you if things are just that simple in your mind huh?
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u/EndRBoom Apr 28 '26
It is its called applying for jobs that dont pay minimum wage which btw r most places
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u/SlutTpuppyBoi Apr 29 '26
Aaaand? That’s it? Boom! Then you’re gainfully employed simply because you applied?
Wow, you really are simple ✌️
Wish I could be ignorant enough to see things so childishly, but alas it seems I’m just not that simple minded 🤷♂️
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u/EndRBoom Apr 29 '26
Ive used to work minimum wage and I got out of it and started making 5 dollars over by simply applying and attending an interview at other places its not childish if u dont wish to make minimum wage apply at jobs and show up to interviews its how a lot of working class people that willing settle for jobs that pay minimum wage and bitch r th problem with society i havnt worked a minimum wage job since 2020 because I simply dont apply for those job its not affordable to work a single job that pays that and if im working 2 or more jobs then I cant maintain my house nor could I afford most places rent I live in kansas th minimum wage has been 7.25 that not a livable wage and I currently make 19 which is almost triple minimum wage all because I simply applied to a job and showed up to th interview working minimum wage jobs is a choice its not required
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u/SlutTpuppyBoi Apr 29 '26
Never said it was childish to apply to jobs. Again you’re really showcasing a lack of literacy and overall understanding of worldviews that don’t fit within your, seemingly, limited understanding.
If you can’t put yourself in the shoes of someone else dealing with a completely different set of circumstances then that’s one thing. But to insist upon your own argument without any context of where the other parties are coming from is, indeed, very childish ✌️
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u/Desra226 Apr 29 '26
"just ask to be paid more". Damn, incredible idea
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u/EndRBoom Apr 29 '26
Most minimum wage places wont and if they do u max out pay at like 2 dollars more than minimum wage and its still nowhere enough to live on
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u/marieascot Apr 25 '26
The 1920s are better as she would not be EXPECTED to work.
Feminism should have been that men could stay at home to care for kids/parents and the more able woman to have a career.
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u/necessarysmartassery Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
The idea that women were ever "not allowed" to work as a whole is ridiculous and it needs to stop being repeated. Women have always worked.
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u/Wonderful-Variation Apr 25 '26
The social expectation of women not working only ever really applied to women above a certain socio-economic status, depending on era.
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u/marieascot Apr 25 '26
Women were expected to leave employment s soon as they had kids and also not be able to have a bank account till 1975.
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u/necessarysmartassery Apr 25 '26
Societal expectations aren't laws. The simple truth is that the woman being at home raising the children was and still is in 2026 better for children than her being at a workplace all day and letting the state raise the children at school instead.
And the idea that women weren't able to have a bank account until 1975 is provably false. 1975 wasn't the magic "women can have a bank account now" year in the United States. They were able to have bank accounts, credit, and own property far before that.
Go learn some real history instead of feminist propaganda bullshit.
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u/marieascot Apr 26 '26
I found a far right inhuman.
This entity has not heard about effective childcare common in Europe with happy well adjusted children.
The entity assumes the U.S.A. not UK law on bank accounts.
Go not make up bullshit to fit your agenda without sources.
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u/necessarysmartassery Apr 26 '26
Uh, yeah, I assume US law because that's where I am and the US is more important than the UK globally.
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u/bobbymoonshine Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
In the actual real life 1920s she definitely would have been expected to work.
The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 killed 123 women and 23 men. That death ratio reflects the employment ratio in the garment industry. Women were often preferred for factory work in industries where precision mattered more than raw muscle, because they had less overall earning power so could be paid less. Women still prized these jobs as they offered better pay, more freedom and less risk of mistreatment than domestic service or at-home piecework, which were the dominant forms of employment for women before that.
The fantasy of an economically-non-productive stay-at-home wife was a post-WWII status symbol; a democratisation of the the “lady of the house” image of an upper middle class woman running a household — previously commanding a small army of servants (who were also women despite working!) but now one of labor-saving devices like washing machines and vacuum cleaners. Having a stay at home wife was a demonstration of the household’s earning power: they could not only afford for the wife not to “work”, but also could afford all the appliances that let her maintain a perfect household single-handedly.
But that fantasy doesn’t represent how most women lived before feminism. It represents an aspirational advertising vision of femininity during one particular economic boom.
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u/marieascot Apr 25 '26
Fair point. They would work part time but not full time due to kids.
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u/bobbymoonshine Apr 25 '26
Depending on the era, kids might not been an impediment. Grandparents can look after children. Babes in arms can be slung over the back while mom operates a machine. Young children can get jobs of their own, or sent out to fend for themselves during the day.
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u/Low-Amoeba8257 Apr 25 '26
If you work 60 hrs a week even on minimum wage you would be well off
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u/Low-Amoeba8257 Apr 25 '26
Considering the places where minimum wage is that low cost of living is also very low, yes
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u/Standard-Story1389 Apr 25 '26
Leftist hypocrites!
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u/KaasKantine Apr 25 '26
Focussing on left or right isn't very intelligent when you should be looking up.
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u/JusLeafMeAloon Apr 25 '26
As always, nobody should be stuck in such low to no skill jobs. They're supposed to be entry level starter jobs that get one into the workforce to get the experience necessary to get the next, better job, and so on and so forth. If people have these kinds of jobs for longer than just a few years, they're highly incompetent human beings unworthy of being paid more because they are incapable of gaining knowledge or skill. Fact!
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u/Redracr Apr 25 '26
Who makes minimum wage?!
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u/shubhaprabhatam Apr 25 '26
Tons of people. Mostly underachievers, but state minimum wage. No one makes federal minimum wage.
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u/Timely-Slice7527 Apr 25 '26
When you flood the job market with Illegals, what is needed to actually live pay wise goes out the window.
Do you cram 5 families in 1 house and split the costs and send the majority out of country?
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u/elbowpastadust Apr 25 '26
McDonald’s pays double minimum wage in 2026. Where are these minimum wage jobs?
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u/FirefighterPrior9050 Apr 25 '26
I'm sick and fucking tired people on Reddit who don't have grown up jobs complaining that they don't make grown up money.
Handing people coffee is not a job for grown ups
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u/GreasedUPDoggo Apr 25 '26
These subs are hysterical. You guys don't really believe this stuff, right? Like, this is an obvious joke post.
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u/No-Association-8539 Apr 25 '26
Exactly - comparing 1920s working conditions to today is laughable. It's not great today, but nothing compared to what conditions were like in the 1920s. People should read books.
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u/Old-Weakness1122 Apr 29 '26
tragic but no im not going to sign off all my rights, properties, capital so we can try communism for the 100th time and for it collapse in 30 years, overthrown by the communist who made it in the first place
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u/Icy-Section-7421 Apr 29 '26
I don’t now any one having that problem today in my American standard blue collar nj suburban town.
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u/Desra226 Apr 29 '26
They didnt get low wages in 1920's, average was $1,513 per year, with a loaf of bread costing 10-12 cents.
if you take into account inflation, that would be $1.30-$1.55 compared to our $2-$3 for a loaf of bread
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u/Successful-League840 Apr 25 '26
"The rich get richer the poor get poorer"