Fair point but given everything else cost more, not sure there is room to also increase wages. You see what pizza hut did when CA min wage increased just the other day - they terminated 2,000 jobs.
Can’t argue with that. I don’t see precisely how we get out of this mess, but I think government needs to adjust it’s tax policy for corporations and also for families. I really think wages need to increase, but if businesses layoff thousands of workers, or if families stop shopping at businesses where workers are paid really well, that obviously doesn’t really work out for anyone.
I guess in general I think the country ought to think back to, say, the 1950s when the man worked, the women stayed home with the kids, and life in suburbia was the American Dream. We have drifted a million miles away from that. Some thinking about how we might get back to that sort of life seems overdue.
And note — my feelings on this are not intended to sexist (”women should stay home”). My basic thought is: “I have a job. I earn money. I can survive and I see hope for my future”. I think that right now we are a million miles away from that.