They're just going to eliminate positions now because they can't afford the extra pay. Very sad.
On the news they were saying that small businesses will suffer with the minimum wage going up in multiple states. I'm sure these 10 cents are absolutely going to devestate them.
what do you think the chances are that this is the top rated comment in the thread on r/montana?
Why even show a stack of bills. Just show a dime. Show one dime in the middle of someone's palm so it looks as paltry and as insulting as it is.
That's 16 dollars a month! Or almost 200 a year! Almost!
What do you mean food costs are rising?
What do you mean food costs are rising?
Clearly, this is being driven by the skyrocketing minimum wage and subsequent inflation.
That's how many more dollar bills someone will earn in 1 year at that new minimum wage
I was watching some Austrian school? economist that was saying there shouldn't be one at all. If your labor is worth two dollars that's what you should be paid so you get "valuable work experience." If the lolberts ran the economy.
I see you don't want to waste time keeping them alive. They can describe their elaborate plans to completely turn society into a type of social Darwinist neo feudalism, though!
Maybe if we had universal healthcare and a UBI that covered rent, healthy food, and a reasonable allowance for recreation. The "efficient market wage" logic only makes sense if people aren't held hostage to take whatever they can get in order to survive.
I somehow read lobotomy in your post and I think that characterizes that economist well anyways
You poor plebeians need to get in the entrepreneurial mindset. This 10 cents is equivalent to $15 an hour, provided it is properly invested for ... ~103 years.
MT is like top 15 in property value and bottom 10 in median income but that number seems wrong. My sister moved there back in 2015 and even in one of their college towns (where property values are the highest) you can get a 2 bedroom apartment for less than $1k pretty easily.
There are studio apartments for 600 USD in MT but average rent on Zillow for all properties was the number I posted
I don't think Zillow's widely used there for renting, so I think it's a sample problem (i.e. vacation/ultrarich rentals have a disproportionate representation on zillow for MT).
honestly the fact that they changed it and pulled this bullshit is somehow 1000x worse than just keeping it low for decades.
I remember when a city in Iowa tried increasing its minimum wage from 7.25 to 10.10 and the governor made doing that illegal. Was still good though because it was legal for like a month and a lot of businesses kept things at that wage.
Oh nice. And Gianforte, the piece of shit that assaulted a journalist is gonna be taking over as Governor soon and reversing the mask mandate. That'll be fun for retail employees. That dime's gonna make their traumatic experiences with maskless psychos well worth it. Not to mention their probable illness and attendant expenses.
