Report: Minimum wage Orlando worker needs to work 117 hours a week for two-bedroom rental (Sanders, illegals)
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I always get a kick out of people with 110 IQs pontificating about how people with 90 IQs need to stop being losers.
This obviously isn't about IQ, as effort, and decision making are at least as important.
But if it was about IQ, it's not problem for those with a 90 IQ.
Minimum wage workers make up about 1% of workers. (Some places will say it's 2-3% but those are counting wait staff that officially make 2 and change per hour...but that's not an honest reflection of what they make)
The first percentile has a Z-score of -2.326, and IQ generally has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So the first percentile of IQ...the comparable level...is about 65 (100 - 2.326 * 15).
For some perspective on a 65 IQ:
"To be diagnosed as having mental retardation, a person must have an I.Q. below 70-75, i.e. significantly below average. If a person scores below 70 on a properly administered and scored I.Q. test, he or she is in the bottom 2 percent of the American population10 and meets the first condition necessary to be defined as having mental retardation.
Although all persons with mental retardation have significantly impaired mental development, their intellectual level can vary considerably. An estimated 89 percent of all people with retardation have I.Q.s in the 51-70 range. An I.Q. in the 60 to 70 range is approximately the scholastic equivalent to the third grade.11"
Now beyond teenagers working their first job who have very few options to demonstrate their capability, and ex-retirees taking a part-time job to stay busy...if you're making minimum wage it's very possible you qualify as being mentally retarded.
All wages are negotiated by the employee and the employer and entry level positions should be no different.
Having an arbitrary minimum wage just prices some people out of the work force.
If your labor isn't worth some arbitrary minimum amount, then you won't work at all.
So essentially, the government setting a minimum wage isn't just telling businesses that they have to pay at least "X".....
It also government telling you that if your labor isn't worth "X".......you won't have a job, because it's illegal for you to work for less than "X" ....even if you are willing to do so.
Workers who are only capable of the minimum are screwed if anything.
FORTUNATELY...workers are allowed to pick up skills that will allow them to earn more than minimum wage. The vast majority of people DON'T earn minimum wage (roughly 1% do) so the better question is wtf are they doing wrong where they're in their 30's and still unable to get a job that pays them more than minimum wage.
Other people are doing it, why aren't you?
Personal responsibility is key!
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Originally Posted by Eristic1
This obviously isn't about IQ, as effort, and decision making are at least as important.
But if it was about IQ, it's not problem for those with a 90 IQ.
Minimum wage workers make up about 1% of workers. (Some places will say it's 2-3% but those are counting wait staff that officially make 2 and change per hour...but that's not an honest reflection of what they make)
The first percentile has a Z-score of -2.326, and IQ generally has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So the first percentile of IQ...the comparable level...is about 65 (100 - 2.326 * 15).
For some perspective on a 65 IQ:
"To be diagnosed as having mental retardation, a person must have an I.Q. below 70-75, i.e. significantly below average. If a person scores below 70 on a properly administered and scored I.Q. test, he or she is in the bottom 2 percent of the American population10 and meets the first condition necessary to be defined as having mental retardation.
Although all persons with mental retardation have significantly impaired mental development, their intellectual level can vary considerably. An estimated 89 percent of all people with retardation have I.Q.s in the 51-70 range. An I.Q. in the 60 to 70 range is approximately the scholastic equivalent to the third grade.11"
Now beyond teenagers working their first job who have very few options to demonstrate their capability, and ex-retirees taking a part-time job to stay busy...if you're making minimum wage it's very possible you qualify as being mentally retarded.
On the one hand you are demanding that people better themselves and improve their skill set so they can earn more, and on the other hand you are arguing that non-teenagers/retirees working minimum wage jobs must be “retarded”. How do you expect these “retarded” people to improve their skill sets?
I was responding to your post about housing costs and I'm the one that moved goalposts? That's quite an odd illogical accusation.
The very first post is about housing costs, as in RENTING, not buying.
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