In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far…

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    It’s the wrong side to tackle the problem.

    I know. Workers having enough to live on instead of corporations and billionaires hoarding it all is a problem, huh?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Your second paragraph is an admission that you have no better ideas but want to abandon minimum wage anyway. That’s basically an admission that you don’t want people to be able to earn a living.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            12 hours ago

            I think I point out the obstacle to people making a living. There is no easy answer.

            “Let the corporations exploit people” is a pretty easy answer. It requires no effort and you don’t have to waste time supporting the interests of those unwashed mental deficients you don’t want to earn a living.

            • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
              11·
              12 hours ago

              Please read the article. It’s one of the most important things to know.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                I have read the article, and I don’t see where it supports your disregard for the wages of people you consider beneath you.

                • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  I don’t have that disregard. My point is that the supply of jobs has to be increased instead of setting a lower bound on wages.

                  Taking them as a whole, the general movements of wages are exclusively regulated by the expansion and contraction of the industrial reserve army

                  Focussing on minimum wages makes workers ignore how they are controlled and how they can increase their wages without having to rely on benevolence. To me, that’s disregardful.

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    9 hours ago

                    My point is that the supply of jobs has to be increased instead of setting a lower bound on wages.

                    And you have admitted that you have no solution in that direction. But you still want to abandon the only mitigation we have.

                    Focussing on minimum wages makes workers ignore how they are controlled and how they can increase their wages without having to rely on benevolence.

                    Frankly, I think you just want to abandon the minimum wage and I don’t trust anything else you’re saying on the matter. Put the measures you want in place first. Until then, fuck anyone who wants to forego raising the minimum wage to a livable wage. I get that exploiting workers is very popular among republicans, centrists, and anyone else who sees workers as resources to be exploited rather than people.