• spacesatan@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.

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      Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.

      You’re leaving out a LOT of workers, I’m afraid; 20 states don’t have a higher minimum wage. So they should fuck off I guess

      In 1938, Federal Minimum wage was for a family of four to stay out of poverty… we’ve obviously abandoned that. But keep defending the status quo that’s fine it’s your right

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        And where are you getting your data from? Browsing the DOLs OFLC wage search the lowest I can find for a wage level 1 food service worker was 8.48 searching through rural Mississippi. Most metropolitan areas are > 10 an hour closer to 15.

        Just because states don’t have their own minimum wage doesn’t mean everyone in a shit job is actually making that little.

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        I’m not ‘defending the status quo’ I’m saying your numbers are bullshit. Less than a million people make federal minimum wage and most of those people are wait staff who are taking home a lot more than that.