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Especially because some expert has been incentivized to tell people who make 50,000 a year or more that the people making less than 20,000 are
1) Choosing to
2) Refuse to take full time jobs
3) Could easily walk into better paying jobs no matter where they live.
4) Mostly Teenagers and Retired people who somehow between them run retail businesses from 6 in the morning to 10 o'Clock at night without somehow missing school but also still being open.
"Who should I listen to?" Well you're choosing to listen to the guy telling you economic inequality isn't real so you absolutely shouldn't support raising the minimum wage to a living wage so people aren't literally dying of poverty.
You want to decide people like me should just die. Fine you're an asshole but fine. But don't tell me the reality I'm experiencing isn't real because some expert told you that I'm doing fine on 15 hours of work a week at minimum wage.
1) Choosing to
2) Refuse to take full time jobs
3) Could easily walk into better paying jobs no matter where they live.
4) Mostly Teenagers and Retired people who somehow between them run retail businesses from 6 in the morning to 10 o'Clock at night without somehow missing school but also still being open.
"Who should I listen to?" Well you're choosing to listen to the guy telling you economic inequality isn't real so you absolutely shouldn't support raising the minimum wage to a living wage so people aren't literally dying of poverty.
You want to decide people like me should just die. Fine you're an asshole but fine. But don't tell me the reality I'm experiencing isn't real because some expert told you that I'm doing fine on 15 hours of work a week at minimum wage.