Doc Freemo 
Sure, as long as that rent is a shared room, and the groceries consist of chicken every night... which you can off a minimum wage job.
@freemo @MikeDunnAuthor Minimum wage is supposed to be a living wage. Frankly, food and housing should be freely available to all, but at an absolute fucking minimum, a person working full time should be able to afford their own place and decent food, which is completely impossible at min wage in the US right now. Fuck the protestant work ethic and the religious fanatics it rode in on.
> Minimum wage is supposed to be a living wage
and it shouldn't be, thats the point. It disproportionately harms the poorest least skilled of the work force, it shouldnt exist at all, let alone act as a living wage.
> Frankly, food and housing should be freely available to all
Absolutely agree it should be, and minimum wage should also be abolished.
> but at an absolute fucking minimum, a person working full time should be able to afford their own place and decent food
Only if that full time is **worth** decent food and your own place. People deserve food and an education to be able to gaint he skills to be worth a home and decent food, it is not the obligation of anyone paying someone money to do a task to provide that. It is the governments responsibility to create a healthy economy and valuable workers through access to free education, training, and sometimes welfare.
> which is completely impossible at min wage in the US right now
Entirely possible, for people who are skilled enough to be worth the income needed to afford these things. The fact that many people exist who do not have sufficiently marketable skills is the problem needing solving, not minimum wage.
> Fuck the protestant work ethic and the religious fanatics it rode in on.
Has nothing to do with work ethic, bother understanding a persons position first.
@freemo @rootfake @MikeDunnAuthor how abolishing minimum wage will amek the situation any better? Minimum wage doesn't limit employer from paying more but only paying less.
Here’s an example. It’s 1975 you’re ibm and want the best computer coder. That person works for nasa earning a government paycheck & benefits package. You will have to offer a better deal than nasa AND compensate for the extra private sector stress of making sure the work is profitable to ibm—also the private sector lowers job security. Get rid of the government’s minimum standards just ensures that people will get paid less in the private sector.
And yet the peer reviewed scientific evidence clearly shows the exact opposite is true, that as minimum wage increases, those at or below minimum wage (those with the lowest education) **lose** work and pay.
The difference here is I am speaking from clear evidence, regardless of my personal views of how it would work. The evidence clearly shows us already what happens, we cant just make up our own fantasy and pretend thats the reality.
