fandomsandfeminism:

broblab:

fandomsandfeminism:

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fandomsandfeminism:

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starrbear:

fandomsandfeminism:

Full time work should entitle someone to enough pay for rent, food, bills, and leisure activities. Full time work for a full life wage. You put in your 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? You should be able to afford the basic shit you need in life, no matter where you work.

pisses me off that this is considered a radical statement.

Get a job that pays that well, then.

All jobs SHOULD pay well. That’s the point.

youre right, they should.

what do you propose to fix this?

Minimum wage should be a mandated living wage. Like what minimum wage was always intended to be.

that would cause the value of the dollar to drop like a stone ,in the sense that everything price wise would spike. if a burger flipper can make 20 dollars an hour, someone making 20 dollars an hour now would be making 50, and so on.

all that would do is make everything effectively cost twice as much and we will be right back where we started, but with the value of the dollar effectively halved.

…it would also cause all but a single employee at these low end jobs (per shift) with automation doing everything else, as you only have to pay that once aside from maintenance and utilities, due to the cost of keeping a full staff at that point.

gas stations,aside from the manager, would turn into giant vending machines where a clerk is not needed to aquire anything within the store.

granted, government job wages would go up as well. and stay up. so the most secure job to have would be some level of government work.

…for a high percentage of people, it would either be govt work or foodstamps and unless someone already owned their home outright they would probably lose it, being unable to afford the new prices.

…basically what im saying is, paying a “career wage” at a “stepping stone” job will completely and utterly destroy both the US dollar and the economy at large. as well as quite literally double our national debt since the value of the dollar will be halved.

valued workers are paid a valued workers wage. minimum wage workers are easily replaced by the next ready-to-work 16 year old in line.

as i said when i reblogged you before.

get a job that pays for your living expenses.

i personally know a plumber who has 2 kids and owns his home, several vehicles, and is not struggling much at all.

i work at a low end job, and im not afraid to admit that im not worth much at face value at work, however, i am less worthless at my job due to the basic handyman work i also do around the store during my 3rd shift when i can. (keeping machines at 100% with basic upkeep that doesnt require major repairs, fixing small broken things. minor plumbing/electrical work,etc) granted, my boss didnt ask me to do it, but because of my abilty to fix and maintain our machinery and electricals so something *doesnt*go wrong. i am more valued then some drone who stand behind the counter all day.

i can say, with absolute certainty, that i am the single most valued cashier at my gas station because of what i am able to do outside of my job description. and i am, in fact, paid for my services. if something breaks and i fix it, my boss drops an extra 20 bucks or more in my paycheck depending on the severity.

…you have to be worth paying a living wage to earn a living wage.

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or. demand a living wage when you apply for a job.

if that works out, good for you.

if it doesnt. there is always section 8 housing and foodstamps.

So you’re argument is that capitalism is only possible by exploiting workers and paying them less than a living wage? Interesting observation.

And anyway, you’re wrong about inflation.

https://medium.com/@discomfiting/debunking-if-you-raise-the-minimum-wage-it-will-cause-inflation-c0db32f579f8

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2016-03-28/ask-an-economist-will-a-minimum-wage-hike-help-or-hurt-workers

https://truthout.org/articles/minimum-wage-hikes-do-not-cause-inflation/

https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/does-increasing-minimum-wage-lead-higher-prices

Also not everyone who works at minimum wage jobs is a 16 old part timer, what happens when you’re an adult that has trouble getting the other jobs, so the ones are the most acessible. Some of them who work there have degrees and families even! Are you saying its fine to pay them a pitiance for their work in this shitty job market nowadays?

glumshoe:

I can’t do justice to one of the weirdest camp stories I know. My friend tells it so well, and I can offer only a pale shadow of his story.

Last summer, he was working with one of the younger units comprised of ten year old boys. They had spent the night camping on another beach and were just readying themselves to depart. “Make sure you have all your things!” called my friend. “Don’t leave anything behind!”

One small boy came up, dragging a massive tangle of decomposing seaweed behind him. “But… what about me boy?” he asked, lip trembling.

“…what is ‘me boy’?”

The child held up the stinking wad of bull kelp. “This is him. This is Me Boy.”

“Me Boy is not coming back with us,” said his counselor. “You’re going to leave Me Boy behind on the beach where he belongs.”

The campers loudly mourned the loss of Me Boy. They insisted on giving him a Viking burial at sea, which just consisted of pushing him solemnly off the back of the rowboat into the water and watching him drift away in the surf.

That was only the beginning. Me Boy would be back.

The campers, in true camp fashion, possessed some kind of cultic hive-mind and a predisposition for bizarre memes. Me Boy would not be forgotten. They started telling each other stories about Me Boy and how he would one day rise again. There were warring factions with contradicting dogmas about Me Boy. Only when the gardener allowed them to take home a zucchini she had harvested did they find their god, born anew.

Me Boy, The Zucchini That Was A God, became the whole unit’s mascot. The kids would bicker over who got to carry him. They built nests and carriers for Me Boy and brought him to different activities, fiercely defending him from those that would do him harm. One child appointed himself the Voice of Me Boy and would translate the zucchini’s divine wishes into human speech.

It got out of hand. Me Boy had become a distraction, a fixation, a violent controversy. Something had to be done.

My friend, their counselor, took it upon himself to kill Me Boy. The children wailed in despair as he chopped their God into refreshing slices. With this sudden turn of fortune, followers of Me Boy turned to theophagy. “We must eat him to preserve his power!” they cried. Boys who would otherwise never have touched a vegetable ate greedily of this sacrament, eager to let Me Boy live on within them.

For a time, it seemed that peace and order had been restored, and the religion had already faded into its silver age. But only for a time.

In the last few days of camp, the religion of Me Boy splintered into several denominations. Every meal yielded new vegetable matter said to be a reincarnation of Me Boy, only for opposing groups to dismiss these as false prophets. Some believed that Me Boy was gone. Others believed his spirit lived on, intangible, omnipresent. Some believed he had found a new vessel inside a carrot, a pear, a slice of cantaloupe… even inside a child. There was chaos, and strife, and heartbreak without the guidance of Me Boy.

Dont tell me they all grew up to be vegetarians lol

skyline-sunset-in-my-veins:

freddieandersen:

survivablyso:

awed-frog:

emmersdrawberry:

erikkillmongerdontpullout:

A true warrior queen has risen

C h o s e n

I want her to be in charge of everything, just like the Lady intended.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/05/girl-pulls-sword-from-legendary-lake-of-king-arthurs-excalibur_a_23197937/

to clarify, these are two different young girls pulling two different swords from two different lakes, about a year apart. strange women in ponds will continue to distribute swords

Listen maybe Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is  a good basis for a system of government.

welele:

Si esto no es una aparición de la Virgen… Entonces… Es efecto de una inundación random xd