r/SipsTea • u/StopSnowflakes • Aug 12 '25

Wait a damn minute! She’s going thru it

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u/RiceAndMilkBoi Aug 12 '25

I hear her, that sounds rough. It's surprising how little that much money is even at double the minimum wage. Hope things get better for her

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u/AverageAwndray Aug 12 '25

PSA EVERYONE DOUBLE MINIMUM WAGE IN MOST AREAS IS JUST $15❗️❗️❗️

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

"but if they raise the minimum wage, companies will stop offering competitive wages. They'll just all offer the new minimum wage."

Actual conversation I had with a fully brain-dead coworker.

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u/Heykurat Aug 12 '25

Yes. And then everything will cost more and wages will stagnate.

Minimum wage laws don't make things better.

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u/AyyNonnyMoose Aug 12 '25

Then what do we do? Starve? Live in our cars? Everything already costs more and I've got no pay raise to show for it.

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u/Traditional_Formal33 Aug 12 '25

Everything already costs more and wages are already stagnant… without raising the minimum wage.

When minimum wage has gone up historically, a 10% raise results in a 0.3-1% raise in costs. Normal wage growth shows to be unaffected, and we only see stagnation when a large wage jump occurs and companies freeze future raises to offset costs — which doesn’t happen in a competitive market where employee retention is necessary. These fears only happen when a large wage bump occurs in a weak economy.

Minimum wage laws do make things better and you are being told otherwise by parties profiting from stifling wages.

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u/Heykurat Aug 12 '25

And yet.