Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "The Cruelty of the $15 Minimum Wage" video.

  1. I believe that if someone gives you a full-time hours, they deserve to be able to live. You should be able to afford to share a shitty 2br apartment with another minimum wage worker, along with food and a bus pass and basic cell bill. The basics. That means the minimum wage should be different in different cities. But to tell someone that full time employment isn't even good enough to live is fucked up. I also can't stand this bs of "It teaches you skills you can use to get better jobs". That's absolute nonsense with even a modicum of thought. Unless you get NEW skills that translate to higher paying jobs, flipping burgers at McD's will not get you anything else other than minimum wage. I say if the business can't afford minimum wage, then you don't have a viable business. Yeah a few less people will be employed but I think it's better to have 80% with jobs that can actually keep them afloat as opposed to 1/2 of them earning fuck-all and driving them deeper into a hole. And if you for one second think that in bad times employers won't abuse the lack of minimum wage laws then you are detached from reality.
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