m_f@discuss.onlineM to AskUSA@discuss.onlineEnglish · 4 days agoWhat do you think minimum wage should be?discuss.onlineimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareGoretantath@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days ago72 bucks. Read somewhere a little under that is what the buying power of our grandparents was when they could afford a house and comfortable life with a wife with a single job, so 72 since the billionaires have too much anyway.
minus-squareMrRubik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoI was going to say $73 but you’re right that would be way too much! $72 is perfect.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoBut we can’t pay our workers 73 dollars per year! We’d go bankrupt! Nobody wants to work any more…
72 bucks. Read somewhere a little under that is what the buying power of our grandparents was when they could afford a house and comfortable life with a wife with a single job, so 72 since the billionaires have too much anyway.
I was going to say $73 but you’re right that would be way too much! $72 is perfect.
But we can’t pay our workers 73 dollars per year! We’d go bankrupt!
Nobody wants to work any more…