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Labor group demands California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors
(www.foxbusiness.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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The minimum wage was argued to be high enough to support an average employee’s needs. The idea that if you work full-time, you should be able to live. Food, shelter, etc.. The weird "just this sector deserves to earn at minimum a liveable wage" never sat right with me. It (the minimum wage) should apply to every working person.
I disagree. You should be able to live even with part time. We need UBI, not minimum wage. Minimum wage without UBI creates conditions for fastest displacement of the workers by machinery/technology/AI/outsourcing. UBI without minimum wage would create the opposite conditions.
We align pretty closely on this opinion, and I get downvoted for it too.
I would love to see every citizen's needs met, whether via UBI or something else and the minimum wage abolished. Then companies can pay their employees whatever they want, and the worker can make a choice whether or not to take it, because their health and shelter isn't on the line if they don't.