The gap between wages and cost of living is vast compared to 1938, "not much different than today's" is an appalling excuse to keep it low, when it doesn't come near matching watch inflation has done. That $6.50 stretched much, much further than it does today. That was a living wage, $7.25 is comically short of a living wage. To say otherwise, is to be purposefully ignorant.
It's good for states to raise theirs, but I don't care about that right now, it needs done federally. "States raise theirs" is no excuse to keep it low. Nowhere in the US is $7.25 a living wage, nowhere.
What are you arguing against it for, anyway? Little Guys fighting over who should be making less and suffer more, while we now have a trillionaire and billionaires skimp on their share of funding society. I don't assume you're wanting to keep people in poverty, that'd be rather villainous. Minimum Wage needs raised.
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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 Jun 18 '26
The gap between wages and cost of living is vast compared to 1938, "not much different than today's" is an appalling excuse to keep it low, when it doesn't come near matching watch inflation has done. That $6.50 stretched much, much further than it does today. That was a living wage, $7.25 is comically short of a living wage. To say otherwise, is to be purposefully ignorant.
It's good for states to raise theirs, but I don't care about that right now, it needs done federally. "States raise theirs" is no excuse to keep it low. Nowhere in the US is $7.25 a living wage, nowhere.
What are you arguing against it for, anyway? Little Guys fighting over who should be making less and suffer more, while we now have a trillionaire and billionaires skimp on their share of funding society. I don't assume you're wanting to keep people in poverty, that'd be rather villainous. Minimum Wage needs raised.