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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.
Apparently
Some moron on Facebook was talking about how Trump raised the minimum wage because major brands like Walmart started paying $15 an hour (or whatever specific amount) at the lowest they offer new hires. I told her that, no, that's not what "raising the minimum wage" means. She insisted that because of Trump's brilliant economic prowess it allowed these companies to pay more.
Like, yeah, turns out of the federal minimum wage is so low that basically no one wants to work for it then people need to pay more to get workers. (I'm aware people still work for the actual minimum wage in case that isn't somehow abundantly clear.)
People can work for less, under the table or via wage theft. Very common in the lowest tiers of sex work, in house cleaning services, and in the agricultural sector where human trafficking is common place
Goodwill pays less than the federal minimum wage to disabled people.
Lol that's amazing. And sad.
It's sad how little people know about how their world works. I always knew they knew less than they let on, but hoo boy are they just putting shit like this out there these days. Proudly ignorant.
I promise I'm raising my kids better. Almost done with the first! Shame there's such a gap between em though...
She's not even ignorant. From the back and forth it was clear she knew that the federal minimum wage is still $7.25. It's like willful double think. I hate it. I've since emotionally detached from online "debates" and I feel better.
Most Americans are idiots.
"Imagine how dumb the average person is. Now considers half the people are dumber than that."
is a line I never hear from people who think they're in the bottom half.