"We need an economy that reflects the realities of 2026, not one stuck over a decade ago," said the newly sworn-in Rep. Analilia Mejía, who helped lead the campaign to raise wages in her home state of New Jersey.
Wrong. I don’t believe in keeping the same wage levels at all. I agree; hard working construction folk DESERVE MORE MONEY. a clothing store worker does not deserve the same amount. I’m sorry, its a comparison of value of jobs.
Why do engineers get paid more? Because they’re fucking smart and spent their best years of life studying and slaving in college. If you partied your 20s away and didnt learn shit, fuck you, you deserve less money and a lower living standard (1 bedroom apartment, 1 car, etc. Still, no reason for that person to ever go hungry, thats not what I’m advocating for )
Why do grocery store sorters get paid less? My grandma does it for a job and its easy. If you can’t see that, I cannot help you. Be realistic.
I merely believe that more valuable work should be a higher reward. I think people REALLY got offended at this, maybe because they are sad little people with no job living in a basement and blaming everyone else for their problems.
Then show your work. So far you’ve presented no actual arguments based on value, or indeed provided no numerical analysis at all. All you’ve done is asset that certain kinds of workers are more deserving of higher pay based on nothing but vibes about their intrinsic character (apparently construction workers are hard working but retail workers are not? Based on what? Why does whether they’re hard working or not even matter when you’re trying to claim this is about the value the work creates. If you actually believed that - and you don’t - then it wouldn’t matter how much of a hard worker they are). The only basis there seems to be for what work you deem worthy that I can glean is based on whether it’s stereotypically men’s work or women’s work. So, sexism
Why do engineers get paid more? Because they’re fucking smart
So it’s not to do with the value of the work then. It’s about the virtues of your idea of the a platonic example of that kind of worker. “Engineers are smart so they are more deserving of wealth”. Put aside that engineers are all individuals with different intelligence levels, and that most engineers I’ve met are dumb as rocks outside of their very narrow area is expertise.
If you partied your 20s away and didnt learn shit, fuck you, you deserve less money and a lower living standard
So again, nothing to do with the value of the work, and everything to do with your moral judgement of the people in question. You want people to be poor as punishment for not living the way you believe they should, and all the people who were just unlucky, disabled, naturally unintelligent, or simply didn’t go into a line if work that you consider macho enough are all acceptable collateral damage to ensure that nobody gets off unpunished.
Still, no reason for that person to ever go hungry, thats not what I’m advocating for
Yes. It is. The minimum wage has been stagnant for decades, and is falling to subsistence levels. More than that, why do you care if there is “no reason for that person to ever go hungry”? You’re already arguing that people should be impoverished for no reason, why not starved? It’s just punishment for their laziness, afterall; if they wanted to make enough money to eat, they should have been responsible and started working at the factory when they were 10, rather than fucking around and not learning shit. “Fuck them” right? That’s your argument, after all.
Why do grocery store sorters get paid less? My grandma does it for a job and its easy.
So, again, nothing to do with the value of the work, and everything to do with punishing people for not having it hard enough. Also lol; clearly you’ve never worked a high paying white collar job if you think grocery sorters have it easy.
And if your grandma works an easy job, explain to me why she deserves to live at all? Why shouldn’t she die in the streets for refusing to work the mines?
I merely believe that more valuable work should be a higher reward.
Nonsense: none of what you said had anything to do with the value of the work and everything to do with punishing people for not living the way a Protestant psycho thinks is virtuous.
I think people REALLY got offended at this, maybe because they are sad little people with no job living in a basement and blaming everyone else for their problems.
Says the removed chucking a tantrum about the idea of people he deems lesser not being punished enough. And, you dumb fucking idiot, minimum wage doesn’t apply to people with no job. This is literally about trying to make it so that people who do work don’t have to live in a basement. You fucking stupid ghoul
Wrong. I don’t believe in keeping the same wage levels at all. I agree; hard working construction folk DESERVE MORE MONEY. a clothing store worker does not deserve the same amount. I’m sorry, its a comparison of value of jobs.
Why do engineers get paid more? Because they’re fucking smart and spent their best years of life studying and slaving in college. If you partied your 20s away and didnt learn shit, fuck you, you deserve less money and a lower living standard (1 bedroom apartment, 1 car, etc. Still, no reason for that person to ever go hungry, thats not what I’m advocating for )
Why do grocery store sorters get paid less? My grandma does it for a job and its easy. If you can’t see that, I cannot help you. Be realistic.
I merely believe that more valuable work should be a higher reward. I think people REALLY got offended at this, maybe because they are sad little people with no job living in a basement and blaming everyone else for their problems.
Then show your work. So far you’ve presented no actual arguments based on value, or indeed provided no numerical analysis at all. All you’ve done is asset that certain kinds of workers are more deserving of higher pay based on nothing but vibes about their intrinsic character (apparently construction workers are hard working but retail workers are not? Based on what? Why does whether they’re hard working or not even matter when you’re trying to claim this is about the value the work creates. If you actually believed that - and you don’t - then it wouldn’t matter how much of a hard worker they are). The only basis there seems to be for what work you deem worthy that I can glean is based on whether it’s stereotypically men’s work or women’s work. So, sexism
So it’s not to do with the value of the work then. It’s about the virtues of your idea of the a platonic example of that kind of worker. “Engineers are smart so they are more deserving of wealth”. Put aside that engineers are all individuals with different intelligence levels, and that most engineers I’ve met are dumb as rocks outside of their very narrow area is expertise.
So again, nothing to do with the value of the work, and everything to do with your moral judgement of the people in question. You want people to be poor as punishment for not living the way you believe they should, and all the people who were just unlucky, disabled, naturally unintelligent, or simply didn’t go into a line if work that you consider macho enough are all acceptable collateral damage to ensure that nobody gets off unpunished.
Yes. It is. The minimum wage has been stagnant for decades, and is falling to subsistence levels. More than that, why do you care if there is “no reason for that person to ever go hungry”? You’re already arguing that people should be impoverished for no reason, why not starved? It’s just punishment for their laziness, afterall; if they wanted to make enough money to eat, they should have been responsible and started working at the factory when they were 10, rather than fucking around and not learning shit. “Fuck them” right? That’s your argument, after all.
So, again, nothing to do with the value of the work, and everything to do with punishing people for not having it hard enough. Also lol; clearly you’ve never worked a high paying white collar job if you think grocery sorters have it easy.
And if your grandma works an easy job, explain to me why she deserves to live at all? Why shouldn’t she die in the streets for refusing to work the mines?
Nonsense: none of what you said had anything to do with the value of the work and everything to do with punishing people for not living the way a Protestant psycho thinks is virtuous.
Says the removed chucking a tantrum about the idea of people he deems lesser not being punished enough. And, you dumb fucking idiot, minimum wage doesn’t apply to people with no job. This is literally about trying to make it so that people who do work don’t have to live in a basement. You fucking stupid ghoul