I hate the 'productivity' argument, especially from communists; is it the labor that has value, or not, you fucktards? Are people working 250% harder than they were? No, in fact in almost all scenarios the same technology leading to that increase in productivity makes our jobs easier.
There's plenty of issues with our current economy, obviously and, if we're going to have a minimum wage, and we start from a place of assuming the minimum wage back than was the correct one...yes, minimum wage should be significantly higher. It hasn't kept up with inflation, and worthless fiat currency made everything a joke.
Not from a minimum wage standpoint, but for calling out fiat, I do like the argument that, if you went back to when there was silver in quarters still (we'd already moved away from gold standard but coins still had some value), if you were paid $1.25, today you could melt down those coins for around $30 in silver, I believe. That's the real travesty, and a much more compelling argument to me; how fake the money is. I don't care about 'productivity,' especially coming from lazy Marxists.
I hate the 'productivity' argument, especially from communists; is it the labor that has value, or not, you fucktards? Are people working 250% harder than they were? No, in fact in almost all scenarios the same technology leading to that increase in productivity makes our jobs easier.
There's plenty of issues with our current economy, obviously and, if we're going to have a minimum wage, and we start from a place of assuming the minimum wage back than was the correct one...yes, minimum wage should be significantly higher. It hasn't kept up with inflation, and worthless fiat currency made everything a joke.
Not from a minimum wage standpoint, but for calling out fiat, I do like the argument that, if you went back to when there was silver in quarters still (we'd already moved away from gold standard but coins still had some value), if you were paid $1.25, today you could melt down those coins for around $30 in silver, I believe. That's the real travesty, and a much more compelling argument to me; how fake the money is. I don't care about 'productivity,' especially coming from lazy Marxists.
The real dirty secret is the feds don't want the minimum wage to go up, because it makes their "transitory" inflation permanent.
wages are sticky anyways. wages are already up. You'd have to experience some actual deflationary effect to push them down.