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A tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.
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And that's what the minimum wage was intended to be, a living wage no matter how bullshit your job is. FDR even wrote about it publicly, confirming that yes, even if you're pumping gas, the intent was for you to be able to live well.
Instead, we chose to impoverish everyone so we can have 700 billionaires, and we can't change it, because our government caters to those 700 billionaires and couldn't care less about the working class and poor.