jumpingjacktrash:

andinthemeantimeconsultabook:

Personally, I’m still trying to figure out how $12/hr is considered “competitive pay”???? ????

i couldn’t live on minimum wage in 1992, i don’t know why people think you should be able to do it now, with everything so much more expensive.

gen x spent our 20′s crammed up 6 people to a 2-bedroom apartment, living on ramen and clothes shopping at the army surplus store, because minimum wage wasn’t a living wage in the 90′s. since then, rent has doubled, but minimum wage has gone up by a single dollar. so let me reiterate:

they’re not buying anything because you’re not paying them anything, you egregious slime molds.