disguy_ovahea @ disguy_ovahea @lemmy.world

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Same here. It wouldn’t help me now, but it’s what I needed when it would’ve mattered. Socialized healthcare would help everyone, myself included.

States do have their own minimum wage for exactly that reason. Federal minimum wage is $7.50/hr. NY state minimum wage is $16.50/hr. We also pay $12.99/dz for eggs and $1800/mo for a shitty studio apartment. A higher federal minimum wage would help New Yorkers more, but it would destroy lower cost of living states.

What a fascinating point. I’d be fine holding antique engineering story hour as my contribution. Who knows what old gems were lost over the years. It sounds like fun, even if I was just a novelty.

I got into a lot of debates as to how. Raising the federal minimum wage alone isn’t enough. Our nation’s cost of living varies far too widely for that to work without destroying small businesses. We need systemic reform with more smart subsidies and democratic socialism to keep necessities low. Possibly even regulatory pricing. Inequality will only worsen with AI replacement.

I’m not surprised. DeSantis is trying the same thing in Florida, to offset the lost farm workforce due to mass deportations. We’re basically cattle to these people.

The McDonald’s argument is old and outdated. Back when a family could comfortably afford necessities and some luxuries, those were seen as after-school jobs. It’s a very different world now. Any full time position should be able to afford someone all necessities. If not, it’s the very definition of exploitation.

I’ve survived the last 25 years by living in shit poor neighborhoods and commuting to work in wealthy areas of the city. It’s far from ideal, and I’ve barely saved 1/10 of what I’d need to retire.

I’m in complete agreement that our system is fucked.

I hear it makes a hell of a latte.🤮

The first video game was the precursor to Pong, called Tennis for Two. It was created on an oscilloscope in Brookhaven National Laboratory. Had they thought to patent it, the US government would’ve held ownership of all video games.

https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php

I wrote:

China said, “we have been here for 5,000 years, most of that time without the US, and we expect to be here for 5,000 more.” That’s some Teddy Roosevelt shit right there.

“without the US,” not “without Americans”

This was your comparison:

So China has existed for 5000 years but America has only existed since white peoples decided to start a government? Or are you cool with Native Americans claiming 50,000 years?

Yes. Federal minimum wage was designed to be set at a livable wage for the poorest states. States with higher costs of living are supposed to raise their minimum wage above the poverty line for their state.

I’m in NY. A higher federal minimum wage would actually benefit me, because we would see less of a hike in essential goods and services. An increase to $17/hr is only $0.50 more than the current state minimum wage. It’s the poor states and older people that suffer when the minimum wage is too high.

The increased price of goods drives people to corporations over private businesses. The private businesses can’t afford the higher payroll, resulting in layoffs. Those businesses fold, and the previous employees go to the corporations for minimum wage jobs. They inevitability end up on SNAP or other federal assistance while working full time once inflation sets in.

Older people nearing retirement may be forced to work for longer, because their target retirement savings is no longer sufficient. Social Security payments are adjusted for inflation at 2.5%, which is dwarfed by sizable increases in the minimum wage.

Again, as I said above, I’m all for a livable wage across our nation. I’m saying that adjusting the minimum wage is not the only lever that needs to be pulled to make that happen, and brining it up too high too quickly can actually be worse for poor areas than better.

See that doesn’t bother me as much. I’m a Boy Scout. Bugs and soil get in your food. So be it. I’m not ok with machine-milking cows until their udders begin to repeatedly blister and pop onto the milk.

A nation is defined by a collective identity just as much as it is the government. The Native Americans are not the United States.

You compared the establishment of the PRC to the existence of Chinese people. I did the same with the people in the United States. I’m being respectful of the cultural differences between the European colonialists and the Native Americans. How does that make me racist?

We’re talking about the United States, not Americans. The people that created the United States were not Americans. They were Europeans. They didn’t begin to settle here until the 17th century. The Chinese didn’t immigrate to China to found the PRC.

The Chinese people lived in China prior to the PRC. The same is not true for the European colonialists.

I stopped drinking milk the day I learned that the FDA has a limit on the amount of puss from a burst udder blister, and it’s not 0%.

It should be a living wage…in each state. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand the difference between state and federal minimum wages?

Carney is a smart guy. He met with leaders in the EU and discussed a slow selloff of US Treasury bonds to remind Trump that the US is being propped up by the rest of the world. The next day, Trump paused the tariffs citing “people getting too yippy” as his justification.

It’s great to see intelligent and composed leaders put him in his place. China said, “we have been here for 5,000 years, most of that time without the US, and we expect to be here for 5,000 more.” That’s some Teddy Roosevelt shit right there.

Ummm, it’s well past time. www.fiftyfifty.one

Willful ignorance gets no respect from me. Take your empty and actionless criticism elsewhere.

Still not getting it. Money is fictional. How many cartons of eggs per hour do you make? How many days do you need to work to pay rent? God you’re a dense one.

You don’t get it. I’ve never made six figures in my life. That’s NY poor. We pay more to live here. A dozen eggs is $12.99 here right now. A studio apartment is $1800/mo. Things cost more in wealthier states, so the poverty line is higher, hence the higher state minimum wage.