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Edited by Forever Berg:
5/1/2014 7:06:29 AM
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Take a simple economics course and you will see why the minimum wage is stupid. For one, the majority (99.2%) of people on the minimum wage are below the age of 24. The minimum wage is so low because income is determined by the education and skill of the workers along with the high demand of the jobs (which require little training).
If you want more money, get a job that require more skill and experience. Working at Pizza Hut isn't a suitable way to sustain your life, it's a good way for teens to make some backup money to buy that car.
And it's easier to debate in person because they have a face. Online you are anonymous and can say things without repercussion. It's not rocket science. I can call you a retarded misshapen butt cheek and it will cause no harm since we have no relationship or social credibility to damage
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[quote]For one, the majority (99.2%) of people on the minimum wage are below the age of 24. [/quote] Sources, I require them. [quote]If you want more money, get a job that require more skill and experience. [/quote] Kinda hard to do on a minimum wage job with the drastically increase price of a college tuition. Much less tuition and books and housing and gas and food.
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Edited by Forever Berg: 5/1/2014 7:14:53 AM[url=http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/08-workers-are-over-29-and-earn-minimum-wage-or-less]Source[/url] [url=http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/documents/MINIMUM%20WAGE-BLS%20REPORT-2013.pdf]Source's source[/url] And my point was, get an entry level job or at least a job at a place like a restaurant where you get paid for more than minimum wage (Chipotle in Ohio I know pays around 8.15 for starters and every few months you get a raise). Just being a freshman in college is enough credentials to co-op or gain an internship in a company. Increasing minimum wage isn't some magical secret option that will cure all problems, increased payment equals less supply and more demand.
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Thank you for source. [quote]Increasing minimum wage isn't some magical secret option that will cure all problems, increased payment equals less supply and more demand.[/quote] I was never under the impression that it was.
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Sorry, I wrongly jumped to conclusions. Some people like to deny any effects of increasing the minimum wage.
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>links a source created by a conservative think tank who's mission is to destroy the liberalism that is undermining the values of a traditional (read conservative christian) America Great source you got there.
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Honestly I was just trying to find the Bureau of Labor data but nice job ignoring that source.
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Edited by Lord Commissar: 5/1/2014 7:40:45 AMJust so you know I'd say the same thing to someone who linked a website created by a liberal think tank who's mission was to destroy the evil conservatism that's enslaving our citizens and threatening the liberty of all decent folk. Why not just link to it directly then instead of linking to a source that's going to try and manipulate the results to fit whatever narrative they're trying to spin?
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Currently, I'm working at the local animal hospital here as pretty much the janitor, and taking care of the animals by feeding them and cleaning their cages. Other than money, I'm using that job to gain experience. Once I graduate, I was planning on using it to get into Vet School, which is much harder to get into compared to medical school. I started minimum wage, but I've been working there for about a year and a half, so they raised my pay up some time around late December, early January.
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That's pretty much your best bet by working upwards, but it isn't the minimum wage that should be fixed, it is the price of college tuition. Plus at least in Ohio, minimum wage has gone up at least a dime pretty much every year to adjust.
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College tuition is going up pretty much every two years or so. Last year, and the year before, the price per unit just in the community college alone was around $38 a unit. Now, it's $46 a unit. I'm going to the community college to get the lower division classes out of the way, before transferring to get my upper division courses done. Comparing to the community college's fees to the university's fees, I'm paying around $644 for just units alone, not including the health insurance fee, which is another $20. I'm also renting out my books to save costs, so I don't end up paying $1,000 altogether for books when I can pay a little bit over $100 for the books. If I went to the UC here, I'd be paying just under $14,000 a semester for just units alone. The health insurance fee is an extra $2,100. For books, well, a lot of the lab books in the UC are just for that UC alone, and those just by itself are around $150 per lab book. I'm basically paying $300 more for books, and tons more for tuition and health insurance. Yes, the college system needs a massive overhaul. I agree with you there. I don't even know if I'll be able to pay for my next semester by myself because the college board might increase the tuition per unit again this year to make up for "lost revenue". I enjoy being semi-independent, but I don't want to be dependent on my parents again. That's just a step backwards for me.
