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matchgirl42:
iammyfather:
floralgaysthetic:
According to my Dad the Republican™, people who want the minimum wage raised “don’t understand what it’s for” and that the businesses he worked for when he was younger would have had to change their entire business model to accommodate it so I just wanna say, controversial opinion here apparently, but if your business can’t afford to pay its employees a living wage it’s because uhh your current business model ain’t worth shit. Lol
Considering that when your dad was paid minimum wage it most likely went a lot further than the current wage…
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That last part of the OP’s statement is actually the reasoning behind why the minimum wage was established. The companies and corporations of the day levied the same argument back then, that their companies couldn’t survive while paying a minimum wage. This is what FDR said in response:
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living. Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you – using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act, and 1938, Fireside Chat, the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act that instituted the federal minimum wage)
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matchgirl42:
iammyfather:
floralgaysthetic:
According to my Dad the Republican™, people who want the minimum wage raised “don’t understand what it’s for” and that the businesses he worked for when he was younger would have had to change their entire business model to accommodate it so I just wanna say, controversial opinion here apparently, but if your business can’t afford to pay its employees a living wage it’s because uhh your current business model ain’t worth shit. Lol
Considering that when your dad was paid minimum wage it most likely went a lot further than the current wage…
http://ift.tt/1fi2qzM
That last part of the OP’s statement is actually the reasoning behind why the minimum wage was established. The companies and corporations of the day levied the same argument back then, that their companies couldn’t survive while paying a minimum wage. This is what FDR said in response:
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living. Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you – using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act, and 1938, Fireside Chat, the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act that instituted the federal minimum wage)
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