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In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If not you should reexamine which political label you have chosen for yourself and see if it actually matches your contempt for all who earn wages.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's an analysis, not a solution. Where is the contempt? You can tell me where I am wrong but I haven't said anything about how anybody should be treated.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the contempt?

You don't have the mental capacity to see it.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I ask, I would like to see it.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Scroll back up and read what you wrote, then.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You must mean this:

because they don’t have the mental capacity to organize themselves.

Condescending, like the other thread says, I can see that. How can there be contempt for something that people cannot change. That would be stupid.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Condescending, like the other thread says, I can see that. How can there be contempt for something that people cannot change.

You see poor people and your first thought is how stupid they must be.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you.

I wrote mental capacity because stress, irregular schedules, two jobs and all the other stuff drain energy and trap even clever people. Intelligence is only part of the problem.

My point is that they are not stupid but helpless. Usually I argue that there shouldn't be minimum wage and that people have to organize to earn more, but I can see that it makes sense for that group.

Still, as we can see, relying on others is not sustainable. Minimum wage workers have to find a way to rise their wages on their own.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Usually I argue that there shouldn’t be minimum wage

Shocker, that.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's the wrong side to tackle the problem.

Wages can be risen with an increased demand for workers. How? That is the relevant question that leads to the right answers. Minimum wage is a distraction.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It’s the wrong side to tackle the problem.

I know. Workers having enough to live on instead of corporations and billionaires hoarding it all is a problem, huh?

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Please don't ignore my second paragraph.