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Originally Posted by arock10
Low minimum wages (below the cost of living) simply allow corporations to get their employees incomes subsidized by the government. Then who do you think are helping pay these wages? The tax payer aka us
So when a McDonald's or walmart pays $7 an hour, it's us picking up the difference instead of a multi billion dollar company just paying living wages
So for profit businesses are the ones abusing the tax payer and the government. Sorry that people have been blinded by conservative propaganda talking shit against the min wage. Which by the why when accounting for inflation peaked in the 1970s at over $10 in today's dollars.
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One could argue it is the government's willingness to hand out these subsidies to employees as being the problem. Allows these people to never work harder to be great employees and increase their worth to their current or next employers who value their skills. Doesn't make them accountable to survive. Lets them get by doing the bare minimum, with the least responsibility.
I would argue the safety net has gotten too big, too vast, and too easy to make people complacent and lazy.