PA House GOP leader: “Not every wage is designed to be a livable wage.”
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PA House GOP leader: “Not every wage is designed to be a livable wage.”
Posted by ExactlySorta
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Why don’t we give him on of those not designed to be livable wages?
Some people just aren’t meant to be here.
born and raised in pa, lot of people here are under the impression that the world needs ditch diggers and only high schoolers work low wage jobs with no expectation to make more. and i live in a seemingly liberal city 😩
Then living people aren’t design to do that job.
So some jobs are supposed to be a hobby then?
Fuck this
Can universal basic income just be the average of the amount we give a for profit prison for one person a year? Seems fitting that if you’re going to not pay people a livable wage and keep funneling them towards the prison system for homelessness that ubi should be the same amount you’d pay anyways for that to try to keep them out instead.
# “It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By “business” I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
In a just society, saying something like this would get you [redacted]
Yeah, but the problem is that most jobs don’t pay a livable wage.
F this boiled potato.
Fuck this mediocre white man
GOP is full of sociopaths who enjoy other people’s suffering.
I wish sinkholes opened up under shitty people
GOP don’t say the quiet part out loud challenge: impossible.
The audacity of this man to say this, when those same people not making a livable wage are literally paying his salary with their tax dollars. Despicable humans
So… would he like to name those fields that are not designed to provide livable wages?
Is that why we pay teachers like shit in America? These people are disgusting and selfish.
I would agree and think that’s ok… if he supported a universal basic income.
Alright I obviously wouldn’t think it was okay, regardless. But there are answers for this beyond “some people will just starve.” Don’t expect corporations to pay decent wages. Just tax them and put that toward a UBI.
The grocers at my town’s store do more work in a week than these people do in an entire year.
So pro life.
25 years ago my minimum wage ($5.15/hr) pizza job paid me enough to be a roommate. My next job ($10/hr) made me enough to rent my own apartment. It took me 12 years and a housing market crash to be able to buy a house.
Should I have been able to buy a house for myself at my pizza job?
I’m all for pushing people higher and farther. Just wondering what people think should be happening.
exploitation of labor is a form of slavery, it’s not chattel slavery, but it is slavery.
Huh?
So what tf is the point then
The fact that the phrase “livable-wage” needs to exist to begin with shows how fucked we are
And why not? Because some greedy bastard wants to take it all.
Depraved af
In other words “Be crushed by your work, you filthy peasant”
His name is Jesse Topper. Feel free to shoot this twat a message [here](https://www.palegis.us/house/members/bio/1681/rep-topper)
Then you can’t tie healthcare, food, and housing to our jobs then, fuckface.
It’s always rich people telling us we need to be content with what we have.
Exactly! Why can’t people understand that if you work one of the bad jobs you don’t need to eat food. Just lick the nutrients off the bottom of my shoe like a good poor.
So what was the rest of his point?
If a job doesn’t deserve a livable wage, why does it deserve a human being doing it? If the position matters enough to exist, it matters enough to pay someone fairly to do it. You can’t say a job is essential and then turn around and say the person doing it doesn’t deserve to live off it.
Give him a non-livable wage then