Raising the Minimum Wage

[Renton]

Opinion: Unskilled labor by a single person in a single, full-time job should not necessarily be sufficient to live on.

I know this is a year old but I basically agree except maybe to say that it shouldn't be enough to support a family. I think it should be sufficient to live on, providing the living is very frugal.

The shit that drives me crazy is when leftist bash walmart because their employees don't make enough to support their families. It's like fuck man, you work at walmart, maybe settling down with a family wasn't in the cards. And I get that circumstances happen, but just because you made some bad relationship and condom decisions doesn't mean you are entitled to an American Dream salary for pouring sawdust on the puke on aisle seven. These sorts of jobs are meant for young people, presumably part time while they are in college. Also, it's well-established that if you want your family to have an information age standard of living, you need two household incomes so tell that hoe she needs to put on her Sunday best and start selling avon or something.

/rant

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I know this is a year old but I basically agree except maybe to say that it shouldn't be enough to support a family. I think it should be sufficient to live on, providing the living is very frugal.

The shit that drives me crazy is when leftist bash walmart because their employees don't make enough to support their families. It's like fuck man, you work at walmart, maybe settling down with a family wasn't in the cards. And I get that circumstances happen, but just because you made some bad relationship and condom decisions doesn't mean you are entitled to an American Dream salary for pouring sawdust on the puke on aisle seven. These sorts of jobs are meant for young people, presumably part time while they are in college. Also, it's well-established that if you want your family to have an information age standard of living, you need two household incomes so tell that hoe she needs to put on her Sunday best and start selling avon or something.

/rant

Yeah I just want to point out that this is what I meant in terms of not being able to support a family (though it is possible to support yourself).

Additionally, the idea of living frugally is beyond the realm of comprehension for so many people at this point that it's ridiculous.

I also want to point out that the OP was a copy/paste from something else and that I didn't write it.