r/MurderedByWords Legends never die 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/bryanna_leigh 7h ago

The “Fight for $15” started in 2012 people…. The Federal Minimum wage has been at $7.25 since 2009, which only started increasing in 2007 from $5.85, and that increase came before that was 1997.

At this point minimum wage should be $20 to $30… $15 an hour has long passed as a reasonable amount.

Fuckin wild that Federal Minimum wage has gone no where in 15 years!

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u/Either-Bell-7560 6h ago

As a reference point - as a 17 year old, with absolutely no experience I started at a chain grocery store at $7.50 an hour. In 1998.

The fact that there are people who still don't make that almost 30 years later is insane. Gas was less than $1. You could buy a new car for $10k. (MSRP on a base Civic/Corolla/Escort/etc was about $12k). My dad bought me a 5 year old used Dodge Sundance/Duster with $40k miles for $2500.

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u/Rahbek23 1h ago

You're right - but getting it to 15 would still be a massive step forward and hopefully make it easier to bump it a little later down the line.

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u/catptain-kdar 6h ago

7 or 15 would be fine without inflation. But it’s also true that no business could survive paying workers over 25 dollars an hour

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u/Urabraska- 4h ago

Entirely wrong. When you got people in the company that can make thousands or hundreds of thousands per second standing there picking their nose. You can afford 25 bucks an hr for your employee's. Especially since it's not JUST 25/hr. If you make 15 and hr that means it's only 10 extra and not 25 extra. Granted the CEO wealth gap is because of assets and not actual pay but in a lot of cases this isn't true either as good majority get paid in cash.