Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "California Fast Food Workers Get BIG Raise!" video.

  1. ​ @IcarusLime yep
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  2. Exactly
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  3.  @anthonycarbone3826  thank you. Ancedotally, I was working minimum wage but left to pursue community college and a physics degree. I'm poor now, but ultimately I care about minimum wage debate the most because it affects me the most. These jobs are dead end, which is why I refuse to work them now. I don't want to be a cashier and I know the government doesn't really want to help poor people, only corporations.
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  4. Yep
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  5. Except conservatives believe minimum wage workers deserve poverty. They oppose a living wage and welfare at once.
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  6. ​ @jf9979 exactly
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  7. Not everyone can be promoted to management. Minimum wage jobs don't give you skills.
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  8. ​ @jam6876 exactly
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  9. Which is still a poverty wage
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  10. Boom
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  11. ​ @seancarson1212 yep
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  12. Inflation is an acceptable risk
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  13. Holy crap
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  14. ​ @jam6876 exactly
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  15. So you believe poor people don't deserve that much money
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  16. It's only communism when the government helps poor people.
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  17. What about them?
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  18. Everyone can't be business owners.
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  19.  @whytheface777  okay, but if everyone quits then people will complain that those minimum wage jobs aren't being filled. That is the fallacy of relative privation.
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  20. Times change
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  21. ​ @111Phoenix777 exactly
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  22. So you're more concerned about having cheap prices than workers having a living wage
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  23.  @GoEqBro  inflation is an acceptable risk. It doesn't matter what something is meant to be, it matters what it is, and it is a career for milions of people.
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  24.  @GoEqBro  not everyone is supported by their parents, can afford school, or wants to work part-time. You're arguing for poverty here.
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  25. Meritocracy is a myth.
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  26. Who are you to say what jobs aren't as important as others?
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  27. You morally believe poor people deserve poverty
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  28. Over time? Poverty won't take a smoke break in the meantime. Inflation is a real risk that we must be willing to take.
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  29.  @anthonycarbone3826  the core problem here is corporations: they want many things, but in this case cheap labor. Minimum wage workers are already kept part time so they don't receive benefits. These corporations make billions of dollars from cheap labor, wage theft, buying up housing, debt, and more. All corporations have to do is pay a living wage with benefits and they won't have to worry about a minimum wage increase or compete with welfare.
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  30.  @anthonycarbone3826  thanks. How did I debate?
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  31. What you aren't seeing is the problem here is corporations wanting cheap labor. It's why corporations support immigration
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  32. Then you find poverty acceptable.
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  33.  @robertkleiman  1. Society prioritizes having lower costs over rising labor power 2. The government could eradicate poverty with more robust income support programs, if it was a true priority. 3. The core problem is corporations, politicians are secondary because they back corporations. 4. The core problem here(MW debate), is corporations want cheap labor. That is why they fight against the poor and for immigrants.
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  34.  @robertkleiman  read Herbert gans functions of poverty. Poverty serves 13 functions within American society. The first, and biggest function of poverty, is to ensure society's dirty work gets done. Nobody works minimum wage jobs if everyone had wealth, skills, or both, so rich people and corporations have a vested interest in ensuring everyone cannot obtain these things, in order to force poor people to accept slave wages.
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  35. And it is..
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  36. Then accept it.
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  37. Yes, but read Herbert gans functions of poverty.
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  38. Entry level jobs are dead end and give you no skills
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  39. Not everyone can do that
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  40. But it is a career for many people now. Times change.
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  41. Low wage workers have no bargaining power. I made $10.50/hr as a cashier instead of the $17 I wanted.
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  42. I didn't realize cashiers are worse than rapists.
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  43. Ok
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  44. Ok
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  45. You're evil
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  46. Unemployment is an acceptable risk. This is a separate bill than the overall minimum wage
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  47. ​ @spb4455 exactly
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  48. To exert control and have cheap labor.
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  49. Wow
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  50. Blame greedy corporations, not poor people
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  51. Poverty isn't vague.
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  52. Thank you
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  53. Sounds good.
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  54. ​ @patrickahaus6570 welfare
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  55. Yep
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  56. This is a moral issue to you, not an economic one: you believe poor people don't deserve to make a living wage
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  57. It was in a separate bill than the overall wage increase. What you're saying is it's more important to not have automation than workers having a living wage, meaning you find poverty acceptable.
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  58.  @Chiguy79  all priorities are not created equal. Our political values are based on the risks we refuse to accept. Raising the minimum wage poses real risks: inflation, automation, unemployment, etc. However, if empowering workers to work for non poverty wages was our top priority, then we would be willing to take such risks. We are not willing to accept such severe risks. Therefore, working and being in poverty is acceptable.
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  59. So you want cheap prices over livable wages?
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  60.  @robertmatthews2009  inflation is an acceptable risk. What is being deemed intolerable through the minimum wage debate is the empowerment of workers, not the continuation of poverty
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  61.  @robertmatthews2009  the truth of our politics lies in the risks we refuse to accept. You refuse to accept empowering workers, meaning you deem poverty acceptable.
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  62.  @robertmatthews2009  then inflation is the risk we must be willing to take. Whether the meal is $40 or $400.
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  63.  @robertmatthews2009  it isn't a certainty.
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  64. Then you want workers in poverty
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  65. Not everyone can work their way up to management. Not everyone can even work. Minimum wage jobs don't give you skills.
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  66. Because people believe poor people don't deserve that
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  67. Corporate greedd
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  68. Holy crap.
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  69. Wow
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  70. No, because corporations want cheap labor.
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  71. Then you prefer risk mitigation of unemployment and inflation than empowering workers.
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  72. That's a moral issue to you.
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  73. ​ @MedicalAutonomyProject ok
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  74. 7.25 is already 0 because you can't live off of it
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  75. If they paid based on profits workers would make around $100,000/year.
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  76. The problem with your thinking is that minimum wage jobs aren't going anywhere. People want there to be cashiers like they want there to be doctors.
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  77. You morally believe poor people don't deserve to be middle class.
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  78. Inflation is an acceptable risk
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  79. So this is a moral issue to you then: you think poor people don't deserve this much money. And the overall wage increase was in a separate bill.
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  80. A person's job is not reflective of their intelligence or work ethic.
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  81. ​ @mechengineer4life so this is a moral issue to you then: you believe poor people don't deserve to make that much money. Move where? The minimum wage can't afford housing in 98% of the country. Stop shaming poor people.
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  82. No because corporations were too greedy and wanted cheap labor from over seas
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  83. You admit these jobs are dead end and give you no skills but also argue these workers should get more skills.
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  84. ​ @karllogan8809 thank you
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  85. ​ @PoliticallyAffiliated not everyone can be promoted out of low wage jobs. They aren't stepping stones for everyone.
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  86. Entry level jobs are dead end and give you no skills.
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  87. They want to blame poor people.
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