• GingeyBook@lemm.ee
      64·
      1 year ago

      Then we’d have to call it “some leg room wage”

      It’s the minimum wage, it’s supposed to be the minimum you need to survive. Conversely, you don’t need two bedrooms to survive

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        No, we call it the “minimum wage” because it’s the minimum to be legally paid

        It’s meant to be a living wage, and in case that’s not clear enough for you

        and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

        quoted from FDR, the guy who got the initial minimum wage laws passed in the US

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      What gingeybook said, with the addendum, if there was an option to bring up minimum wage to allow that wage to rent a 2 bedroom i would totally vote for it over voting against it, because itd better than nothing for sure.