Why should we increase the minimum wage? - Higher paid employee's, work harder.

Before I make a solid judgement about minimum wage, I want to first know why you could have a living wage as a gas station attendant in 1975 but not in 2015. Or even 2005. I want to know what changed in those 3 or 4 decades.

In Australia, the minumum wage is considerably higher than the minimum wage in the US.

Having a higher minimum wage means that it's more expensive for companies to employ people in Australia, which means that a lot of them take the cheaper route of outsourcing everything to China, where they can pay everyone with peanuts.

I agree that people should be getting more than they are for the work that they do, but I don't believe that a higher minimum wage is what we should push for. A higher minimum wage would do nothing but bring enough comfort to the working class to make capitalism seem tolerable; it's first-worldism at it's finest. The only way for true change to come about is through an armed revolution of the proletariat, which would be impossible to do if the entire first world were to settle upon an increased wage as reparations for the disadvantages that capitalism creates.

A fifteen dollar minimum wage is nothing more than a bribe to keep the proletariat under capitalism's rule.

Coming from someone whom nearly lost their own home several times whilst not even being in debt, I like it the way it is now. I don't have anything special, and for sure I'm not rolling in money but I'm just a masochist whom would pass out at work after doing all-nighters again and again only to enjoy it.
Ah- by that I mean uhm, like one day I'll look at all I've done and stuff
I dunno. I am young though so...
but its not as if i dont know what im talking about since i do work a lot at school then editing then not getting enough sleep or food so i pass out of the couch 3 days later when i get home
good times

based_bluetawn wrote

Why not UBI dependant on whether you maintain a job, then do away with the minnimum wage?

Uh no, literally the whole point of Universal Basic Income is that it is, in fact, universal.

We shouldn't force people that don't want to work to work. Then only people that actually want the jobs will get them, and quality will rapidly increase.

To pay a poor man a rich mans wage is to make a rich man a poor man.

If we raise the minimum wage then the prices will go up and the issues will continue eventually.

I think low minimum wage encourages those whom will put forth effort to put it forth..?

Increasing minimum wage will hardly have any positives.  Small to medium-sized companies will either increase price, cut work hours, or fire employees.  Large-sized companies would just increase prices.  $15 minimum wage will ruin small family businesses that don't make tons of profit.

I've seen some hard working people bust their ass off with two minimum wage jobs just to survive.

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Well that's because they're meant for high school and college kids

should be scaled to where you live. i.e. places more expensive to live in should have a higher minimum wage than places that aren't