You dummies love these corporations and you love taking care of their minimum wage slaves/employees 
McDonalds in Denmark pays its workers $22/hr + 6 weeks of paid leave
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The reason people pay those high taxes is there standard of living is multiple levels above the average American. I have visited, worked and dealt with people from these socialist countries, and if I was white I would have been left this shithole.
This was a good reread
Denmark has always been a reasonable country....
Is the US ready for a $15 minimum wage?
I often wonder if people dead set against a $15 minimum wage ever actually think about $15.
Seriously.
What would you do for $15?
Would you come to my house and clean my bathroom for an hour?
Do my Dishes?
(LOL For the record, no, neither of those is ACTUALLY mine, nor are thy representative of my domicile)
If I asked you on the street to stop what you were doing and watch my car for one hour so I could run into an appointment and offered you $15, would you take it or tell me to fuck off?
What is $15? Why does that suddenly sound like a lot of money when we are talking about minimum wage, when there isn’t a chance I could use $15 to motivate you to do ANYTHING unpleasant or even just boring for an hour.
This idea that it will somehow crash the economy is silly. The economy is strongest when it’s strong from the bottom up.
Pay the bottom tier of the economy a living wage, and something amazing happens. They SPEND that money. They spend it not just on the smallest things they are able to afford when they are somehow scraping by, they spend it in the same restaurants, bars, small gift shops, home services like carpet cleaning that most people are wringing their hands over “How are they going to afford it?” They afford it because more people will be able to afford THEM.
Businesses will ALWAYS pay bottom-tier workers the absolute minimum they are allowed to whether they can afford it or not. It’s part of how you run a business, but treating labor like any other commodity creates an economy where the GIGANTIC bottom tier not only can’t afford to participate in that economy, they end up needing social support like food stamps, Medicaid, sometimes welfare. So suddenly the next rung up in the economy is actually paying for that lower rung NOT to get paid a living wage.
It is a fact that the minimum wage has not kept up with the cost of living, and it’s long past time that was corrected.
The reason for issue with $15 is because entry level out of college DEGREE jobs pay slightly more (sadly). The system will be unsustainable if you pay an entry level bachelors degree graduate $20 then pay a master degree hold $27. Both of these parties probably have a ton of student loans. $5 is not an incentive to go and stay in college. I can avoid all the debt and work 40hrs a week at McDonald's for $15/hr.
Secondly, people who argue that warehouse workers, McDonald's employees and other lower level jobs should get paid more just don't understand how inflation works. It makes no sense. Prices will just go up and they won't see any of that money.
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The masters degree thing bothers me and will forever bother me. Got a bunch of people making more off minimum wage than a 40 hr work week.
Unfortunately that’s not how the world works. We can counter the first photo by saying “get a degree and get paid well”.
People who work at McDonald’s and other lower level jobs and position are victims of circumstances and choices. It’s either an unfortunate situation or their own choices/doing that put them in that position.
Do you want to reward failure? Do you want to be in a society where working at Walmart is considered a legitimate job while a college grad’s earn $5 more?
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