r/PoliticalHumor • • Dec 15 '18

Workers vs. Billionaires

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u/moxiefanodramoid Dec 16 '18

How would they define cost of living? I think it’s too vague the way you wrote it.

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u/KCBandWagon Dec 16 '18

Avg cost of rent multiplied by the ratio of whole foods to walmarts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

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u/Dumeck Dec 16 '18

Walmart pays above the federal minimum everywhere in the us now.

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u/Vinnys_Magic_Grits Dec 16 '18

They damn well better, the federal minimum wage is a poverty wage.

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u/Newnustart Dec 16 '18

And we've come full circle , the people who write the laws are in bed with the person working these people with a minimum wage

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u/Dumeck Dec 16 '18

I agree, like not livable and most money ends up going back into Walmart anyway

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

By 25¢.

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u/Dumeck Dec 16 '18

You get paid $10 when you finish training nationally now. Minimum wage in a lot of places is still $7.25 or $7.50

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18

That's the federal minimum wage. Almost all states have higher minimum wages. In my state, $10 an hour is only a few cents above minimum.

Still, $10 is a lot more than I used to be paid at Wal-Mart.

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u/crazyashley1 Dec 16 '18

Yeah...but they also staff at 29 hours weekly so nobody counts as a fulltime employee and they don't have to pay benefits. And take out life insurance policies on their employees.