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The minimum wage in the US is $7.25 an hour. That is in fact not a liveable wage. That's $15,000 a year. Rent alone ($1000/mth) is $12,000 of that. Gas to get to work everyday would be another $3000. So you're left with....$0 a year.I keep hearing the left say that minimum wage, which is what the lowest 2% of Americans earn, needs to be increased to where it provides a “livable“ wage. The disconnect comes in what is considered livable - even for teens who barely squeaked through high school and have no job skills beyond that which can be taught to a middle schooler in half a day.
The left considers “livable” to be a middle class existence - a decent one-bedroom apartment, a car, a vacation. Where they miss is that is the level to which people should ASPIRE, and the desire to do so is what incentivizes one to get some vocational training (at a minimum).
To me, “livable” is how every member of my family lived when we were first starting out: either renting a room in someone’s house, or sharing a two- or three-bedroom apartment with others. I considered myself “living” doing that - I took the subway to work, did my job, bought groceries, and other basics.
And THAT is the lifestyle of someone right out of college, earning starting wages, or of a new high school graduate who has no real job skills to offer. In the case of the former, it will be temporary; in the case of the latter, it is rarely permanent as most people acquire job skills with experience.
Why is rent alone $1000? That’s for your own apartment. You can rent a so-so townhouse for $1500 with two other people and your rent is $500. The. Gas for car? Oil changes? Car insurance? What car? You take a job where there is public transportation. Around me, a bus ride is $2.The minimum wage in the US is $7.25 an hour. That is in fact not a liveable wage. That's $15,000 a year. Rent alone ($1000/mth) is $12,000 of that. Gas to get to work everyday would be another $3000. So you're left with....$0 a year.
I Guess adults can just not eat, drink, get oil changes for their car, renew their car registration each year, pay health insurance, pay for car insurance, and pay for electricity and a cell phone.
As Planned, Slavery for Superior People Has Replaced Slavery for Inferior PeopleI had several hundred dollars left over, and that covers clothes. And you don’t need to buy clothes and shoes and costs every month, either. I still have my winter coat from 2010.
And it isn’t fair to compare transit costs in New York. They already have a $15 minimum wage to compensate for the high costs of that city. (And who ever said I live in NY?] But in regular places, where people earn at least $10 hr, they can triple up with other low-wage earners, as people have done for generations, and cover their living costs.
And I did take out payroll taxes.
The fact remains that a $10/hr a wage worker, with no skills or education, can get by renting a room in someone’s house. If they don’t like that, they need to acquire job skills that makes them worth more on the open market.
Both Sides NowAnother excuse. There are so many rooms for rent around here that they are hard to fill.
And if they can’t find one near their Target or wherever they work, then they need to apply for a job where there IS a room to rent. Stop acting like these people are helpless idiots.
Those Who Make Excuses for Unearned Privileges Resent Their Own Daddies for Not Getting Rich and Spoiling ThemThe idea that wealthy people got that way due to “Daddy’s money” is an excuse failures tell themselves.
The self-made millionaire HAD no Daddy’s money. Plenty of them started off dirt poor. Stop assuming wealthy people inherited anything.Those Who Make Excuses for Unearned Privileges Resent Their Own Daddies for Not Getting Rich and Spoiling Them
Outlawing birth privileges has nothing to do with making excuses for failure. You can't honestly tie those two together any more than hating kings is a peasant's excuse for his own failure. And if these imaginary self-made millionaires really did it on their own, they wouldn't need a dime of Daddy's Money to get a head start, would they? So cut them off for that reason then.
“Prosperity through Motivation, Hard Work, and Free Education”“Prosperity Through Lower Wages!”
You're in a Nation Whose Economy Is Modeled After Urination“Prosperity Through Lower Wages!”
How many times are you going to repeat your own little personal communist manifesto bullshit?Those Who Make Excuses for Unearned Privileges Resent Their Own Daddies for Not Getting Rich and Spoiling Them
Outlawing birth privileges has nothing to do with making excuses for failure. You can't honestly tie those two together any more than hating kings is a peasant's excuse for his own failure. And if these imaginary self-made millionaires really did it on their own, they wouldn't need a dime of Daddy's Money to get a head start, would they? So cut them off for that reason then.
Where do you live that rent is under $1000/mth?Why is rent alone $1000? That’s for your own apartment. You can rent a so-so townhouse for $1500 with two other people and your rent is $500. The. Gas for car? Oil changes? Car insurance? What car? You take a job where there is public transportation. Around me, a bus ride is $2.
And Obamacare is around $30 a month if you earn so little. You share the electric bill. A cell phone runs you $69 for the phone AND a year of service.
Finally, I’m figuring on $10 minimum. Around here, the lowest is $17 or so. But figure $10, or $1600 a month. FICA, subtract around $100. That still leaves you with $1500. After rent, you have $1000 left for the bus, some groceries, and your share of the electric bill.
Not good enough? Then learn a skill.
If you rent a room in a house, it could be $500 or less, depending on where you live. Certainly you aren’t saying that someone with no job skills who flips burgers is entitled to his own apartment, are you? If he wants that, he has to acquire job skills that have a higher market value.Where do you live that rent is under $1000/mth?
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Start poor. Work way up. No one starts at top. Instant gratification is a liberal emotional illness.So you are saying some hard working people have to be poor. So give them some help. Problem solved.
And those delightful multi colored hair braids and nails for $$1,300 and then pull out the old EBT card that I paid for.!I think a lot of complainers of the wealthy do work, but none have ever risked a dime of their own money outside of buying a house or contributing to a workplace IRA. So they get pissed off that their employer is in charge of their income instead of themselves.
People like ourselves who did make investments, worked all the time to make those investments profitable are frowned upon. While we had to give up a lot of things to make it happen, they were buying the newest iPhone and video game systems.
Utterly incorrect for 85% of the USAUnder 100 grand is low middle class today at the very best. Un arguable.
Look these jokers think they are entitled to a 500k house on an income that they FEEL should be required to support a 500K house. So being cart before horse ass backward emoters they are offering that employment income needs to match the house rather than making the house compatible with the income.If you rent a room in a house, it could be $500 or less, depending on where you live. Certainly you aren’t saying that someone with no job skills who flips burgers is entitled to his own apartment, are you? If he wants that, he has to acquire job skills that have a higher market value.
People have been renting rooms in houses or apartments for generations, without complaint. I did it. My dad did it. My grandfather did it. If we did it, so can a low-wage worker without much market value.
Drink lessWhat you're advocating is just short of slave labor.
Where do you live that rent is under $1000/mth?
“Prosperity Through Lower Wages!”
Both Sides Now
Fine. And the rich should stop acting like their sons and daughters are helpless idiots. The pampered and sheltered brats should be cut off from Daddy's Money at age 18. No more entitled dependency.
