“Any person who thinks that a $15 minimum wage is the ‘crazy socialist agenda’ is living in a dystopian capitalist nightmare.” -@AOC pic.twitter.com/yIUw1NyQco— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) March 1, 2021
AOC is a good entry point for the left even though she's pretty :LIB:. That said, I really wish she'd push for $40 / hour and make the conservative democrats talk us down. The left compromises before it even starts too much.
Aiming high is good, but there's a danger of aiming so high that people conclude you don't know what you're doing. If you message someone about the price of some Craigslist furniture and they say they'll sell it for a million bucks, you aren't thinking "I can talk this person down," you're thinking "I'm not even sure I should bother with this person." If you even make a counter offer, it'll be what you had planned on offering in the first place, because you're smart enough to see through something so transparent. And if their roommates are relying on them to sell the furniture and they don't get any traction with their million bucks tactic, they're going to lose support from their roommates sooner than if they were asking for a lower price.
The concept of a minimum wage is to discourage independent working class action, by using the bourgoies state as the proxy for class struggle. With strong unions, you don't need a minimum wage. Many unions have already secured high "minimum wages" through their independent struggle. You must try to unionize your workplace and achieve wage increases that way, instead of trying to rely on the bourgeois state. It is actually easier that way, and more effective in the long term in building a working class movement.
AOC is a good entry point for the left even though she's pretty :LIB:. That said, I really wish she'd push for $40 / hour and make the conservative democrats talk us down. The left compromises before it even starts too much.
$40/hour would get laughed off, not talked down.
Not if we all had guns.
also fine, we ask for $25 / hour. My point is we should be shooting high.
$15 / hour at full time gets you a room in an apartment with roommates in a lot of cities.
Aiming high is good, but there's a danger of aiming so high that people conclude you don't know what you're doing. If you message someone about the price of some Craigslist furniture and they say they'll sell it for a million bucks, you aren't thinking "I can talk this person down," you're thinking "I'm not even sure I should bother with this person." If you even make a counter offer, it'll be what you had planned on offering in the first place, because you're smart enough to see through something so transparent. And if their roommates are relying on them to sell the furniture and they don't get any traction with their million bucks tactic, they're going to lose support from their roommates sooner than if they were asking for a lower price.
The concept of a minimum wage is to discourage independent working class action, by using the bourgoies state as the proxy for class struggle. With strong unions, you don't need a minimum wage. Many unions have already secured high "minimum wages" through their independent struggle. You must try to unionize your workplace and achieve wage increases that way, instead of trying to rely on the bourgeois state. It is actually easier that way, and more effective in the long term in building a working class movement.