• @gaifux
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      -710 months ago

      Yes, nobody should be able to legally work unless it’s for a lower bound of like $200/hr and absolutely free-ass healthcare

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        So basically your position is that some people who have full time jobs deserve to live in abject poverty. Cool, thanks for the input lemmy.world lib.

        Why are they always from lemmy.world?

        • @gaifux
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          -510 months ago

          Sorry, how did you assume that from my comment? Maybe try rereading it

          • @[email protected]
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            210 months ago

            From your multiple comments mocking the idea of a livable wage for low skill work. If you do support one I don’t know what you’re being sarcastic about.

            • @gaifux
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              -410 months ago

              I don’t think anyone deserves to live in abject poverty. I know people in the trades- some of them make more than those who went to college, and with less debt, so the entire premise of the post and your lazy moral outrage is cliche and embarrassing. It’s just not reality, but I understand it’s more fun to bandwagon and play to the crowd than actually think. Doesn’t make it noble.

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                10 months ago

                Nobody says the skilled trades are unskilled labor they’re literally called skilled trades. That also has nothing to do with your comments mocking a livable minimum wage.

                • @gaifux
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                  -510 months ago

                  The sarcasm is pointing out the absurdity of legislating a living wage. The reality of minimum wage laws is it forces all business to an arbitrary lower bound of wages regardless of the other terms of a work contract. Nobody I know who has been working for over a year makes the minimum wage so it’s not doing much for any person who’s built some skills and experience. What it does do is squeeze small businesses, so Tony’s family farm across the street gets in trouble if his family helps out in any official capacity and doesn’t meet the minimum wage requirement. It’s extra red tape to boost big corporations who love it and squeeze small businesses who get mired in the red tape to accommodate the law. I wish that wasn’t the case but it is unfortunately. It’s about as silly as a maximum wage.

      • @[email protected]
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        010 months ago

        Preposterous framing of a simple issue. People need money to survive. Jobs that need doing that don’t pay people enough to survive shouldn’t exist. Yes, healthcare should be free-ass.