*OLD MAN REACTS* Fight For $15 - REAL TALK - Hurt Feelings On The Way!
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An important thing to keep in mind, while yes menial labour is "unskilled" it is still a job. Working a job should enable you to live you life. Rent depending where you are ranges at a starting point between 400 to 1000 dollars a month. Transportation cost, food cost, health care cost, insurances, utility bills, etc. If you working 40 hrs a week can not equal a basic living standard then the economy will not function. For a healthy economy in a capitalistic system to function the average worker, the layman, needs money and time to spend it. Removing the livable viability of the base employment as the value of money decreases just to sate the pride of those that worked to reach it back when that was a high value pay is not healthy for an economy. Skilled labor should always be scaled in relation to the base pay. But the base pay should always be enough for the one spending those unrefundable hours a livable wage.
Thank you! This!!! There is such a lack of understanding of simple economics as well.
No disrespect in the slightest; but the main problem is an 18 year old working at a fast good restaurant, making $17 an hour can hardly afford a studio apartment depending on the state, their family situation, health, other bills, etc. There are so many factors. Prices keep going up while the minimum wage stays the same. How ass backwards is that? It will take teens of this generation until they're in their 30's to move out. Everybody's wage, depending on their skill, should rise a lot higher than they already are.
The bottom line is that EVERY job should pay a decent wage. It shouldn't matter WHAT the job is. Not everyone can work a "skilled" job, but nobody SHOULD have to justify their job to convince you or anyone else that they deserve to be paid enough to make ends meet without having to work three jobs just to cover necessities. I work at a gas station. There's nothing meaningful or fulfilling about that crap. I sell coffee and overpriced convenience store junk to people alongside the gas they fill their cars with. You can talk all day long about how essential my job is or isn't, or whether it is skilled or unskilled labor, but the fact is, SOMEONE has to do that job, and why the hell am I less deserving than anyone else, such that I should not expect to be paid enough that working 40 hours a week would be enough to pay my rent and put food on the table?
50 to 60 years ago - this was the case. If you worked, you could pay your way. We left the gold standard in 1971 The problem isnt the wage -- it is the value of the wage.
Under the Fed Reserve -- the higher the wage goes, the less it is worth. We need to go back to stability.
@@SaltyReacts We aren't going back to the gold standard. That's not going to happen. It does not mean that we are categorically incapable of ensuring that people are paid decent wages. The problem is that billionaire capitalists have sold too many Americans on the lie that wages can't be raised because all that means is that prices go up, thereby keeping us all locked in a situation where the wages stay low and people are maintained in poverty, and oh, look, prices are going up anyway.
The problem is that people aren't paid enough money to live. Nothing is holding us back from fixing that except for the corporate class who want to keep wages as low as possible - and their unwitting cheerleaders.
This makes me sad because the people that we should be focusing on is not the minimum wage workers who are at the bottom of the rung. but the people on top is who we should be chastising. The group of greed capitalists who actually have the power and the money.
So the middle-class is weaker than it's ever been since the Great depression the gap between rich and poor is larger than it has ever been since the Great depression.
Even if you just take a look back the last 30 years rent food all the necessities are going up ... And yet wages have not matched or gone up at the same or equilibrium, which means people are actually making less money because their money doesn't go as far as it used to.
I know everyone is a good person and I know that they don't want to see other people suffering I hope, but unfortunately because schools are so expensive people are not able to get great jobs and they have to take min wage which is not feasible. I mean the younger generation has the card stacked up against them. So I don't like seeing them beat up because it cost a lot of money to be poor.
The proven method to get our economy on track and have everybody living in middle-class comfortable life it actually paying middle class and low wage workers a lovable wage.. because then they turn around and they bugged goods and they buy all the things that keep the economy strong and business is open. When the rich keep getting money they can't buy everything at the same rate that we would be able to so, the economy gets stagnant
I mean honestly we need to stop fighting with each other cuz it's not the people better asking for a livable wage that have any impact on the economy like they lead you to believe.... I'm with homelessness skyrocketing it's the rich for buying up all the houses sitting on them which in turn leave the housing market inventory short and so prices go up again and they're doing this on purpose so that they can make record profits
The top economist and the FEDS already said that it's good for the country if more people become unemployed.. like people are just their collateral damage a bottom line so they can just climb up the rope before they turn around and cut it so nobody else can get up there.... I don't know we're better than this people that are making 15 an hour or going to have no impact and it's sad and again it is so expensive to poor
This. This. This. This.
Just enough sass to fact😊
gotta add a little salt from time to time
This was wild, great video as usual!👍
Hi Salty. are we getting reaction from Tom MacDonald ft. John Rich last song ?
Well the title isn't wrong, this disappointed me after enjoying some of your reactions.
The elite class wants exactly what you did here; to have those in the working class to be pointing fingers at each other as the problem while they just keep getting wealthier and wealthier.
In the many decades since your first jobs, cost of living, inflation, and corporate profits have skyrocketed and minimum wage has increased by a measly $3-4 an hour. I humbly suggest that you educate yourself on the real statistics about the value of labor and who the types of people on minimum wage are. Work to change your attitude to try to want better for your fellow citizen instead of putting them down. How do you justify literally everything else in this world getting 10+ times more expensive over the years, but the value of labor is the same as it was decades ago?
Your arguments are all about how "fast food workers would be earning more than biologists, teachers, etc". This is a strawman fallacy that you have set up to argue against.
You honestly think the same people fighting for a fair minimum wage want teachers, scientists, EMTs to be as low paid as they currently are? Workers need to stand united to decrease wage inequality across the board. It just so happens that those earning minimum wage are the ones who need the increase the most desperately.
Want to talk about entitlement? How about we shift the discussion to why those at the top feel entitled to hoard the profits generated off of their employees hard work?
Thought I'd add, not as a flex, but just to negate the "you must just be poor/jealous/bitter" arguments. I'm a software engineer. I earn a great salary. I just have empathy, especially for those trapped in the cycle of poverty.
Extremely well put comment.
It does get exhausting hearing about how low wage workers are entitled when we have absurdly rich people feeling like they are entitled to most of the profits that is made by their workers.
Without the labor of workers, large businesses would be absolutely nothing compared to what they are now and that should be acknowledged more.
If the CEO of Starbucks took a slightly less pay for the year 2023 of ONLY 25 million. The money could have given all 400k employees a 11k a year raise. Business can afford much more then 15 and hour, which you still cannot buy a house and car making even with 2 or 3 household incomes.
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Interesting video, do you still hold these opinions?
In order for things to be, even remotely equal, going back to roughly 1958, the minimum wage SHOULD BE closer to $18.50 ...
But, that would be a different Story Time...
@@SaltyReacts You should totally post more of these types of videos! I found it quite entertaining!
Fantastic video! I think you should listen to Roaring Thunder by Daniel Larson! Quite a touching song so I would be prepared before listening but I think you would love it.
back after i got out of the army i worked as a cook at OCB. i made 13 dollars an hour. everything we made there was cooked from scratch. you shouldnt clump in line cooks who actually have to cook food with these fass food workers. major skill jump from them
I don't think we should diminish anyone's job there are a surprising number of x retirees having to get back in the workforce and unfortunately with technology changing and ageism ... This may be their only choice and if it's their only choice I definitely think we should be giving them a livable wait I think we should be getting everybody a lives me wage.
I watched a piece where aging population is having to move back in with their kids that is so messed up....
It's horrible. And we need to take better care of the most vunerable
But I get it because back in the day I read some stuff that it was younger generation and this was just like a summer... unfortunately that is no longer the case.
if the minimum wage gets raised those other jobs will raise with them with the price of how things are right now america needs to raise there starting pays for every person to be able to at least live in modren houseing and in the modren economy. all those other jobs should be raised as there are higher value but every worker should have to right to not starve or become homeless while working 2 jobs
And the only way those wages increase is if product prices increase, taxes increase, etc. The money doesnt just magically appear out of thin air. The problem isnt the wage -- it is the value of the money itself. Your buying power. The power of $1 back in 1956 is worth roughly 8 cents today. And getting worse each year. How do we fix THAT??
Ridiculous
Can I be offended that someone in the comments is offended…and more than likely voted for the people who put us in this mess? Sorry, I read software engineer and all I see is clips of that chick who showed the world a day in the life of a Twitter employee. You know, the one that grabbed a glass of wine on tap and ate meals I’d only be able to eat if I sacrificed other things. Sorry, if they want to help the poor or not as well off people, they need to either donate more to those in need or, if they want a systematic raise in those peoples jobs, they should be happy to be taxed at a much higher rate so the government can give the needy more (I’m very much against those options). Gotta love the “Latte Liberals” that spew their delusional ideas about the environment and people while on their iPhones which are made by what is practically slave labor in the country that pollutes more than most of the world combined. I do love that “not trying to flex” flex, but, unlike them, I barely make it by because, at 40, I’m retired military with a lot of physical problems…but that was my choice and nobody should pay for anything more than what I earned from my service. Yep, I’m poor, it’s my fault, and I will always own my failures and mistakes.
Thank you for your service! It is greatly appreciated.
@@SaltyReacts Thank you for trying to set an entitled generation straight and accepting the push back you might get from posting this video. The only reason I brought up the military is for it to be an “anti-flex” flex. We all must take responsibility for the choices we make and I’m so tired of hearing about this faux compassion from people that think if they say something it absolves them from what they are complaining about. How many white celebrities or CEOs pretend they are outraged by a lack of diversity but wont step down and give someone else that job? Yep, they don’t care; but spewing lies makes them feel better. Maybe I’m stubborn, but people getting handouts and being told they are a victim have stopped them from wanting to strive for something better.
Getting flack for initiating conversation is something of which I have gotten familiar.
Donations doesn't solve the systematic issue of underpaid employees. When discussing a problem, in this case Americans today having the lowest purchasing power in American history, it's important to acknowledge the root problem.
That root problem being corporate greed that has gone unchecked that leads more people to require government assistance despite working.
Even from a capitalist perspective raising the minimum wage would be the most effective way to get millions in America out of the poverty level thus getting millions out of government subsidies.
As the person who you're talking about, I just want to suggest that maybe you don't create an entire fake person in your head to get mad at based on one youtube comment about how maybe people should be paid a livable wage when companies are posting all time record profits.
And yeah, thanks for your service.
We call this pricing your self out of the market. Low skill lowe pay!
And if it were a static system with no interference from those at the top, you'd have a point.