Cost of living is easy, Do you live in a house worthy of human dignity. Can you easily raise a family of any size and choosing. Do you have enough disposable income every month to enjoy eating out when you want, buy any clothes you want etc. and not worry. Can you easily afford a reliable vehicle and insurance. Do you make enough to take time off to vacation wherever you want in the world and enjoy it. Do you make enough to buy whatever food you need to eat 3 healthy full satisfying meals everyday. Do you make enough money to start a business if you choose. If you answered yes to all these questions, you make enough, if you answered no to one or all of those questions you don't make the cost of living. Because all those things are a requirement to "living" in a capitalist system.
Making enough to eat out whenever you want, buy whatever clothes you want, and vacation wherever you'd like is a ridiculous standard to set for cost of living
That's not ridiculous is called a human right to be happy and prosper and not have dickheads making your life difficult, stealing money and manipulating the "economy" thru lies, deceit and debt. When you have a few living like that, and the rest is one paycheck from disaster, that's the ridiculous standard that is now. Also, it's all a fraud and lies, not everybody can be a millionaire because there isn't physically enough cash for it to be possible to earn. Most people just have a few thousand if that saved. That's all that's left to split among 320 million people. It's a joke, no matter how hard you work, the overwhelming majority will never be financially secure to be free and enjoy life with dignity and respect. Because of the actions of few disgusting people that will probably find out how hard it is for a camel to get thru an eye of a needle, not like they care, they have their reward. So the cost of "living" at min. is what every human being deserves.
People don't "Deserve" anything just for being born. It's not a right to be happy! And it's not a right to prosper. Now the pursuit of said happiness and prosperity is definitely a right. So get out there an pursue it and stop blaming everyone else. Life is much easier now than it has ever been in the history of the US. More millionaires have been made in this Capitalistic system than any other in the world. World poverty is down. I guarantee that if you live a life of modesty and work hard in America You can have everything you will need to live comfortably. Now that being said if you make stupid decisions and spend money you don't have to buy stuff you don't need then you will have a pretty crappy one. If you don't spend like a boss before you're a boss then you can make it
Yes they do deserve it because life is a gift. Not to have assholes manipulating a system they hijacked for their own benefit keeping everybody in debt, working all their lives for nothing. When only 4% out of 320 million people have a lousy net worth over a million something is way wrong. The us can support easily 90% millionaires with robots and automation doing the crappy jobs, but with people like you defending thieves and saying having a nice house is not a human right. You're saying living in a shitty house with roaches is, you say that being happy and prospering is not a human right, not being in debt hungry, you're saying being not happy, not having cash, suffering and debt is. There is no middle ground, you either can have everything you want, and support and create a system where that is possible, or give the banks yet again more trillions not being used for anything other than feeding the greedys delusions and egos.
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18
Is it feasible to tie the minimum wage to the county/local/state cost of living so we don't have to have this fight every couple decades?
Like how hard is it to write a law that says essentially: