This is I believe what it would be at if it had raised with inflation after the last change to it. If I remember correctly. Which is yeah, wildly off what is stated here
You're probably thinking of the effort to raise the minimum wage to $15. Which has been going on long enough that inflation pushes that well over $20.
This isn't the same measure, though. It's taking productivity--how much each worker outputs per hour--and applies that to what the minimum wage should be. There's a huge gap in that time between productivity and how much workers are actually making.
At least, I think that's how they're calculating it. Haven't done the math.
You don't have to look far to find America's modern day colonial interests. You find them in the coal fields of Appalachia, the farm lands of the midwest, the factories where urban poor work, and the prison labor that maintains our infrastructure. Yeah. We enjoy a higher quality of life than the middle eastern countries where our military contractors don't even try to hide their hatred for the working class, but we're still the feudal serfs serving our lords. Like. Tell me. What would happen if every CEO didn't come into work tomorrow? Everyone's businesses would run just fine. What would happen if every laborer didn't come into work? Society completely shuts down and the police come to beat us down.
What does that tell you about the relative value of both groups work output? And who gets paid? The CEOs. Why? Because they're stealing from us. And like... We should go on general strike. I mean. Really break shit. What's even the point of all this? What function does the government serve. They're rearranging deck chairs while the world burns down. There's a real and present threat that all of us will die in 5 years. And still their main focus is on a whole bunch of nonsense that is completely unrelated to anything we need to keep going. Why the fuck are we subsidizing oil? What the fuck are we giving Israel weapons for? Is the goal just to kill as much of West Asia as possible so there's fewer resources for the rest of the mouths we need to feed?
We deserve to all die in 5 years because we as a society suck so much billionaire cock for the right to eat that we "don't have time" to stop sucking and fucking because we're happy enough with what comes out if their dicks we fight eachother for the privilege. The fact that there aren't viral videos of people killing them is proof we don't deserve this world, we can't even do it to save our species, so fuck it, let us all die.
This stance is called doomerism. I'm not a fan. I sympathize with where you're coming from, but I won't co-sign mass suicide. Let's instead take direct action and start doing things that slows down the machine of capital. Let's illegally occupy airport tarmacs. Let's protest genocides even when presidential nominees call us pro-terrorism. A little bit, if they're gonna say we're pro-terrorism, let's consider the possibility of doing some terrorism. We're gonna get blamed for it either way. Let's realize the LA riots were a political uprising. Let's also realize just how effective the LA riots were, and how much more effective they coulda been if everyone got in on the action
I just took a pay cut to move to 27/ hr and they revoked over time. It'll be a straight miracle if i don't lose my vehicle to the bank. Ah the American dream, alive and well.
But hey, did you hear the economy is doing great?? Apparently I'm just lazy 🤷
That link is basically responsible for solidifying my beliefs that leftists are correct about labour regulations and the economy when I was a young adult. I showed it to a friend some time later, and he quite literally told me "millennials discover Marxian surplus value extraction from the working class". Truer words have never been spoken