Time to give America a raise!

[joe426]

controlled inflation def helps the people paying back their debts. the average american isnt paying attention to extra fractions, but the banks are because theyre dealing with millions of people and that shit adds up.

usa is a huge consumer market, raising the minimum wage and giving ur people more money to spend(buy prodcuts promotes good business) or save(pay back banks so they can loan out more money) would be good.

First question, how much? $10.00 seems a lil too much barack but i like how u negotiate. $7.25 minimum wage is kinda low and could use a bump. not sure what it compares to other countries and their cost of living.

The second question is who will pay for this increase in wage? there has to be a balance of businesses laying off a few workers, businesses increasing their prices a bit(pass on the increased price to the manufactures), and forced innovation from businesses to figure out how to do business better.

[myriverse]

Why xp bonus?

There's no sense in rushing into that great wall at the end game. It'll always be there.

We need xp penalty to make the fun of leveling last as long as possible.

And in a completely unrelated topic, I agree, Quineloe.

[justin2090]

They should take all the social program funding and give it to the working class. Want food stamps? Get a job and then we'll talk.

[ibso]

Originally Posted by justin2090 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They should take all the social program funding and give it to the working class. Want food stamps? Get a job and then we'll talk.

But the working class might not vote the way they want. It's a lot easier to buy votes by making the working class pay for free stuff for non-workers.

[JayN]

They should tax the rich 80% and give everyone a college education, internet and food

[Quineloe]

It's really sad how the corporate media has managed to convince a lot of people that unions are evil per se and serve no good purpose.

[chtulu]

Let take a huge scale union like the phone company here.

I can speak from personal experience that people on the union hardly work, are not educated and basically no nothing of their own craft.

Where as me, the contractor, knows far more, will do more (faster), and i am completely accountable for any issues or failures that I cause on the job.

The upside is that I get paid for what I know and do, so sure they get benefits and hourly, but they bring home less than 1500 a week where as I've been pulling 2500-4k a week for the last month.


TL;DR

Unions protect lazy, uneducated slobs and punish the actual hard working people that keep that business afloat.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Quineloe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's really sad how the corporate media has managed to convince a lot of people that unions are evil per se and serve no good purpose.

Indeed. Businesses are a bigger threat to freedom and democracy than Al Qaeda, Russia, China, and Vietnam put together. Left to their own devices, they would (and still do) bring back debtors prisons, child labour, 80-hour work weeks, etc.

[Jaylafein]

Stop devaluing our currency and no one would care about making 1.25 an hr.

[Erydan Ouragan]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Indeed. Businesses are a bigger threat to freedom and democracy than Al Qaeda, Russia, China, and Vietnam put together. Left to their own devices, they would (and still do) bring back debtors prisons, child labour, 80-hour work weeks, etc.

I agree, without systems in place to keep human greed in check, human greed grows exponentially.

If you're paid minimum wage, your boss is basically telling you that if he could pay you less, he would.

It has nothing to do with innovation and competition and whatever "market stratergery" mumbo-jumbo. It's all about money and they always want more of it and they will do anything to get it.

They don't give a fuck about you.