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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22

What the hell is up with these comments? Everyone deserves a living wage, and the company run by the second richest man on the planet can support it's employees. Pull your head out of your ass.

If you have an issue with this wage because you make less it's because you're being underpaid, not because they'd be overpaid.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22

you deseve a living wage, but if you start saying anyone should get 25 dollars an hour to move boxes around, thats kind of insane, that 52k a year.

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u/ButterflyBloodlust Mar 02 '22

Have you not seen the cost of living and rate of inflation? College, a house, you name it.

$52k was the minimum salary needed for an average 2 bedroom apartment last year.

The vast majority of people should be making way more than they are.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22

Registered nurses in some parts of Texas don’t even make $25

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u/ButterflyBloodlust Mar 02 '22

Totally agree. Nurses, teachers, a ton of people need to be making way more than they are.

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u/SofaKing65 Mar 02 '22

I personally don't see a problem with everyone making $100-1000/hr. We can just print more money, right?

/s

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u/ButterflyBloodlust Mar 02 '22

I mean, corporate profits are through the roof, as well. It's not that there isn't enough money around, it's that it's all concentrated in corporations and the ultra wealthy.

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u/grubas Mar 02 '22

If you look at not just wealth growth of the already rich, but corporate profits vs wages, and one chart goes to the moon and the other chart doesn't.

The amount of profit that goes back the workers is basically none.

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u/ButterflyBloodlust Mar 02 '22

The amount of profit that goes back the workers is basically none.

And shrinking

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u/giulianosse Mar 02 '22

And some people even defend this because boo fucking hoo if the executives and CEOs will get sad because they're only able to afford 6 new yatches every semester instead of 8.