Minimum wage is meant as a stepping stone to earning more later on in life.
I see minimum wage for teens, undergraduate students, elderly, and those living with a disability.
Let’s see what President FDR had to say about the minimum wage:
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)
“By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the
wages of a decent living.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery
Act)
Also, ahahaha “It shouldn’t be a living wage. It’s for people with disabilities and old folks” who…apparently don’t deserve to live.
I couldn’t find a job that paid me a living wage when I was an undergrad. So I got two. And I still ended up maxing out two credit cards and regularly over drafting. And since I was working so much I also started getting Ds and Cs so I lost my small honors scholarship. So I had to drop out of college and keep working low wage jobs.
My credit is still a mess almost a decade later, I still haven’t been able to get back to school. And I’m still paying off the student loans I took out trying to survive my two years in college.
But yeah totally undergrads don’t need to make a living wage. Take a fucking seat OP. Only someone extremely privilege enough to not need a living wage during those times has the luxury of believing the bullshit you’re spewing.
woah wait why do people with a disability not need to make a living??
Because ableist douchebags like the OP think we don’t deserve to live.
So…just to recap…according to the OP…
Elderly people: don’t deserve to live, even though…they’re people.
Disabled people: don’t deserve to live, even though…they’re people.
Teens and undergrads who might be supporting themselves completely because either their family doesn’t have the money to help or won’t help: don’t deserve to live, even though…they’re people.
I…don’t even know how to start with that.