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We've known that the financial literacy of the American electorate has been on the decline for many years, but now it appears over half of Republican voters are verging on the brink of insanity.
Your simple logic amounts to wage slavery. An exploitative dystopian nightmare.
We have already seen how that logic works out in countries like Bangladesh. If Republicans had their way, the USA would be another Bangladesh, with all the pollution, the unsafe workplaces, the hunger and the disease.
The working person deserves a living wage. Any business which has to exploit workers by paying less than a living wage to make a profit is a failure.
I have not advocated for $20.00 an hour, I am not sure what the amount should be at this point, but to want working people to live well enough to have some kind of home and be able to raise a family requires caring about them. It requires actually understanding the real challenges they face.
My only comment was that "Republicans are not generally known for empathy" and your post amply proves it.
Your living wage is going to be different from mine which will be different for a high school student working part time which will be different from a multigenerational household.
Your simple logic amounts to wage slavery. An exploitative dystopian nightmare.
We have already seen how that logic works out in countries like Bangladesh. If Republicans had their way, the USA would be another Bangladesh, with all the pollution, the unsafe workplaces, the hunger and the disease.
The working person deserves a living wage. Any business which has to exploit workers by paying less than a living wage to make a profit is a failure.
I have not advocated for $20.00 an hour, I am not sure what the amount should be at this point, but to want working people to live well enough to have some kind of home and be able to raise a family requires caring about them. It requires actually understanding the real challenges they face.
My only comment was that "Republicans are not generally known for empathy" and your post amply proves it.
Empathy(TM) is not a desirable trait if one is so blinded by "Empathy(TM)" that they can't see the reality in front of them.
People will only pay so much for a burger. If your so called "living wage(TM)" pushes the price of the product beyond that price, your working person will no longer be working.
Plenty of college grads with unemployable degrees slinging lattes at Starbucks.
What do you expect someone to do with a useless Jewish Studies degree?
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