Posted on 08/25/2023 7:21:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Not everywhere.
In Los Angeles, it's long been common for aspiring actors to participate in "showcase productions." These are nonunion plays in which the actors pay a fee to play a part.
There are also nonunion films in which producers raise money by selling parts to actors.
In both these examples, the actors pay for permission to come to work.
True enough.
Most people gain job skills and experience and education, as they go through life, which enables them to move into better paying jobs.
It’s not like everyone is going to be working minimum wage for the rest of their lives. Discussions about how you can’t afford a house if you work minimum wage seem really bizarre to me, for that reason.
At the rate Biden is going, $70 won’t be a living wage by next year.
I was on the phone with a customer and he did security and he said that a guard in San Francisco was making $25 an hour that did not have a weapon.
Yep - been proven time and time again.
I had a bartender friend back in the late 80’s that just killed it at a very popular restaurant w/ a big round bar in North Palm. She could take home $500-$600/night on a Friday or Saturday.
I swear I remember her telling me that occasionally she’d get a “negative paycheck”. The restaurant was probably only reporting a fraction of her tips, but still some weeks it got too much? Was there such a thing?
I agree, $15 an hour is not enough to cover the basis, the minimum expenses that everyone should be able to cover with a full-time job. What is the correct amount will vary by location but generally it’s going to be much higher than 15.
I was on the phone with a customer and he did security and he said that a guard in San Francisco was making $25 an hour that did not have a weapon.
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In San Francisco? No weapon?
I wouldn’t take that job for $25
What is this stupid broad talkin’ about. “U.S. workers?” What other workers would we be talkin’ about? “Living wage?” The deadbeats won’t pay their bills. Besides, if they make more than 15.00 an hour, Jo Jo the White House Pedophile Clown’s voter promise doesn’t kick in for them to force the American public to pay for their crappy diploma. If they aren’t already making more than 15 bucks, who the hell is paying for the expensive “smart” phones and “smart” watches? Hmmmmmm?
Minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage. If it is, then you need to get 2 minimum wage jobs.
that $15 is what got us to where we are...
No sh*t, Sherlocks! Minimum wage was a communist idea that doesn’t hold water. The lowest educated person will always make poverty wages. You cannot legislate prosperity; buy votes, perhaps, but never raise a person out of their own stupidity.
The complainers should have stayed in high school and graduated. They should not have got pregnant and spent hard earned money on hair extensions, tats, piercings, sneakers, and drugs. Bad choices cause bad outcomes.
Bad choices cause bad outcomes.
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But life goes on, be it bad or good.
What are you talking about, Hunter and the "big guy" are great.!!
The fastest, safest way to almost double net income would be to make entering the Social Security and Medicare systems *voluntary*.
Right now, these two things halve the average paycheck, and because Washington discovered that as long as they pay the benefits on time, they can spend the incoming money any way they want.
If enrolling in SS and Medicare became voluntary, a LOT of young people would refuse to do so. And the systems would slowly die off.
The biggest loser would be the federal government, because it would lose a LOT of “free money” to spend on whatever they wanted.
Benefits would continue to be paid, using the scam system they do now. So nobody but the spendthrift feds would lose out.
Indeed also is welfare around $15,000 annually?.
Business are raising their prices to keep up with inflation and so are workers. Nothing surprising about this.
Workers are just trying to keep up.
The real minimum wage in many areas is far above $15/hour, try finding or keeping workers at less than that.
Inflation is a destroyer that is wrecking everything.
As Rush would say, “why $15.00. Don’t stop there. Raise it to $100.00.”
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