General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Tremendez]

none of those are livable wages lol

I lived on them. Point is, they were above the minimum wage.

 

[Barry Poppins]

I lived on them. Point is, they were above the minimum wage.

TBF, back in 2000, the housing market was still solid.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

You can go to local grocery stores and other electronics stores for competitive pricing. No one is forced to use Amazon. They do it for the convenience. Convenience of it all being in one place and convenience because they ship it to you. Same for Walmart, but because the groceries, clothes, electronics, and car shop is all in one place, etc. People chose this convince over going elsewhere.

local grocery stores barely exist and are mostly big brand stores just lije Walmart though. It's all siphoning up and out of the community. The fact that there's options that are the same or that one place has everything is irrelevant to me. But I digress

 

[Dakstang]

'Universal Minimum Wage' is a dumb idea because the cost of living is higher in some areas.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

No the point is if that was above minimum wage your state is fucked lol. Never buying a house on that

 

[Dakstang]

Minimum wage is $8.75 an hour here. All a $15 Universal Minimum Wage would do here is put smaller companies out of business and raise prices on consumer goods.

 

[Dakstang]

We already have a 'Federal Minimum Wage'. Let the states decide from there.

 

[Swamps]

Minimum wage is $8.75 an hour here. All a $15 Universal Minimum Wage would do here is put smaller companies out of business and raise prices on consumer goods.

That's the plan

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yikes.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Now I'm embarrassed to share my political compass.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

The generation before us could buy houses working a no education 9-5 , I'm not sure why suddenly wages stopped going up once they reached higher positions. Wage freeze vs inflation is prob the biggest issues n most j f it

 

[Barry Poppins]

Seems I've gone a lot more Libertarian vs. Authoritarian lately.

 

[his_insanity]

The generation before us could buy houses working a no education 9-5 , I'm not sure why suddenly wages stopped going up once they reached higher positions. Wage freeze vs inflation is prob the biggest issues n most j f it

Maybe because bluberries like you voted for the parties that took advantage of people and created a welfare class that you now enjoy being part of.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

Wages are too low, but then the second they go up tge buck is passed to consumer because God forbid losing 0.1% profit on the quarterly

 

[Barry Poppins]

Do people not realize Jeff is Canadian, not American?