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@Cyber_Trailer I genuinely don't understand how we are in the year 2026 and there are pathetic morons that enjoy embarrassing themselves, posting bullshit like this simply because they are stupid
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Maybe try the California model where minimum wage is $20 and the pretzel cost is $25.
BitcoinSapiens ⚡️@BitcoinSapiens
The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour. A regular Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel at the mall is $7.29. Imagine telling someone an hour of their time is worth less than a pretzel.
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@JerryTurin @vestevel1 @daleaduncan Right, but that was always the intent of the minimum wage, was to provide exactly that if not more.
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@thatfpsguy @vestevel1 @daleaduncan Everyone making minimum wage survives. That is a simple fact. How they do it varies, but it is virtually a fact.
They don't exist in single person households with median apartments. But that isn't relevant.
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It’s never been possible to “survive” on minimum wage. Why should it be now? Teenagers living at home work for minimum wage.
Tandy@dantypo
Am I the only one who still views minimum wage as gas money for your car and movie tickets for you and your date while you gain work experience in high school or at the bookstore in college? When did it become a career wage?
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@Its_Lunati @daleaduncan FDR even described it as providing a “decent living”
Just another example of boomers flexing their fake wisdom and knowledge.
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@daleaduncan Yes it has been possible. When it was introduced a single full time minimum wage income would support an entire family, housing, transport, food etc. that was the point of it.
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@vestevel1 @daleaduncan It’s just boomers who fucked up the minimum wage and benefitted from destroying it that spout this malarkey. The truth is, the fact that they did that is why the labor market is going to be screwed for a long time.
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@daleaduncan Bullshit. I made minimum wage in the early nineties and I survived. There's literally fucking homeless people with no job at all and no income and they survive.
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@daleaduncan Minimum wage was created for the exact reason you are saying it was not intended for.
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@JSiggelow @mtntallpaul They are probably too busy dealing with your calls for excluding yourself from property tax or anything you have to pay for.
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We didn't make stupid choices.
We didn't take out student loans for useless degrees.
scar@imfat
Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $3,100 rent and $10 eggs. You didn’t graduate with $60K debt and no job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.
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@CandidDevOps @mtntallpaul About the response I’d expect from someone who doesn’t know how to respond. Get those Twitter finger insults in the barrel and leave all intelligent conversation to your AI overlord…. Dumbass
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul What a dumbass..
Where did I mention usury? Where did I define it, or claim X was or Y wasn't usury?
Did you fail grade school?
If you paid for "college"... fuck dude..
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@RealCalvin1 You are so wrong about the history of the minimum wage. You are believing the bastardized version of it that allowed it to be $7.25 in 2026 lmfao
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Minimum wage thread
Entry level jobs were never meant to support a family of five indefinitely. That's the problem with the endless minimum wage increases.
They were designed to get high school and college kids some work experience and money for things like a car payment or food
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@mtntallpaul Your generation’s legacy:
americanmind.org/salvo/what-is-…
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We used to not say such ignorant things.
Boomers aren't squeezing you for your college loans, sprout.
CertifiedMemer@thatfpsguy
@mtntallpaul We used to societally protect people from usury, regardless of the merit behind the loan. Boomers don’t care about this though. They got theirs and would rather squeeze the youth for everything. Total Boomer Luxury Communism.
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@Dmandork @mtntallpaul Correct (but also no because many actually accrue daily). Now let’s say the part time job they can work 20 hours a week while going to school pays them $15 an hour. Let’s do the math, how much are they rolling over per year? Let’s also assume they have zero expenses.
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul If its 100k, it would be 25k per year, so it doesnt accrue as much interest until you add on more and more. You get the loans per year.
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@CandidDevOps @mtntallpaul 7% unsubsidized interest compounding (while you are in school), 10+ year, $100,000 loans aren’t usury? Especially given the salary expectations for some of these degrees? How did they play out with the housing market in 2008?
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul The 'silent generation' did this.
Try to be less ignorant eh?
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@NRowe041726 @mtntallpaul Yep. They refuse to see how they lived during the golden age of America where you would LITERALLY have to be a lazy loser to not be in a good financial position. It was beyond easy.
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul Yep! And you could get the loans from a bank and not the federal government who make it impossible to pay off. College also was semi affordable and not 100k for 4 years at an in state college
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@RichSaluki @nwet45 @mtntallpaul The same ones you guys allowed to become insolvent in just 6 more years? The same one I pay into knowing I won’t see a dime? Good, I hope you guys lose all that income. Should’ve fixed it decades ago.
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@thatfpsguy @nwet45 @mtntallpaul Which funds are boomers begging for? Social Security and Medicare? You mean the funds deducted from our paychecks and that our employer paid on our behalf instead of in our salary? Those funds?
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@RichSaluki @mtntallpaul You gonna ignore the last 3 and a half decades or so? Typical boomer retort
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul So, who is putting these people in office? Boomers? We're only 21% of the registered voters. You may want to look in a mirror for this answer.
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@Dmandork @mtntallpaul 7% on a $100,000+ 10 year+ loan that adds interest to the principle during the term while the student is still in school? Add all the context to demonstrate just how predatory it is.
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@thatfpsguy @mtntallpaul 7% is a usuary rate compared to 32% on some creit cards?
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@patternote @ReutherFan @dantypo The cost of that fucking sandwich doubled anyway in the last 5 years. MUCH of that being nothing more than corporate greed. I promise you, I can’t possibly hate takes like that one enough. Minimum wage hasn’t even had a fucking COL adjustment.
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@thatfpsguy @ReutherFan @dantypo If your labor costs more than what customers are willing to pay, guess who is out of a job?
My area has min wage of $7.25, but jobs usually start at 11-12. High min wage doesn't help anyone when the price of your sandwich doubles
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Am I the only one who still views minimum wage as gas money for your car and movie tickets for you and your date while you gain work experience in high school or at the bookstore in college?
When did it become a career wage?
JB Pritzker@JBPritzker
$7.25 an hour is about $14,000 a year. No one can survive on that. People can barely survive on double that. We raised the minimum wage in Illinois. It's long overdue everywhere else.
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@nwet45 @mtntallpaul It’s truly not worth it with these greedy fucks. They will sing a different tune when they are old and decrepit and begging for additional socialist funds to pay for their healthcare. Our generation will do the right thing and say no, because that would be “socialism”
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@mtntallpaul @thatfpsguy What did college cost in your time?
Around $400 a year nowerdays you start with $3000 a Semester without books or anything else you need for classes.
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