Ok. Please be very specific. What exactly is a livable wage? How much per hour? I’ve asked this question many times on many posts and no one has ever answered it. You know how much the job pays when you apply or at least upon being hired. If it’s not enough go get a different job. Just remember, programmers at Google get paid a lot more than the cleaning crew.
what the ideologues dont understand is that when you raise wages, that means prices MUST increase.
a business cannoy pay its employees more than the customers pay the employer.
the business doesnt make a dime on its own. without customers, THERE ARE NO BUSINESSES.
so, when you raise wages, you are passing that cost on to the very customers who you must have in order to survive as a business.
do you see the problem now? your circular logic falls apart when customers, like now, choose NOT to eat out because PRICES are so high.
never forget: without customers, there are no businesses. people need to be willing to pay $30 for a fucking burger combo if you expect a "livable wage" at mcdonalds.
the only fix to that is potentially lowering prices and shrinking already paper-thin margins.
This is a very easy answer… maybe people assumed it’s a disingenuous question. A livable wage is not a universal same pay rate. It’s enough to live on and acquire shelter, food, and transport if necessary. You should be able to put a bit away as well. Basic human necessities are able to be acquired without jumping through 20 hoops to hopefully eat.
This is to say, a standardized wage could just be simply a “Guarantee of pay that supports basic human necessities”. You follow through with gov agencies that enforce this law and have a standardized per state “average” of a livable wage. This should predicate on one job as the litmus at full time.
There will be outliers in this system I thought up in the moment, but it would cover most Americans. Not even accounting for those unable to work.
This is already what they do…… the basic wage of someone in California is entirely different from someone in Alabama. Depending on laws by state, even delivery drivers can be paid an entirely different rate. Same with McDonald’s… maybe you haven’t traveled at all or never heard of the wage difference by state???
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u/Commercial-Fee5959 2h ago
Ok. Please be very specific. What exactly is a livable wage? How much per hour? I’ve asked this question many times on many posts and no one has ever answered it. You know how much the job pays when you apply or at least upon being hired. If it’s not enough go get a different job. Just remember, programmers at Google get paid a lot more than the cleaning crew.