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minus-squareGingeyBook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·10 months agoThen 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
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoNo, 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
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
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
quoted from FDR, the guy who got the initial minimum wage laws passed in the US