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$15 an hour == $100k a year, Apparently. (infosec.pub)

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A tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could not get it through a coworker's head that there is something fundamentally wrong with expecting people to work at jobs lower than COL. They just say that person should get a better job if it doesn't pay bills... Not everyone gets that opportunity.

Fuck you-got mine mindset.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

They just say that person should get a better job if it doesn’t pay bills…

And someone else will have to fill the position they left behind.

People who argue that certain jobs don't merit a living wage are just admitting that they believe society is dependent upon the economic exploitation of a permanent underclass. This is the same exact argument the pro-slavery movement made prior to the Civil War.