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I Was Reminded Today Of Why I Like Self-Checkout
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<blockquote data-quote="beardking" data-source="post: 4192911" data-attributes="member: 31421"><p>"The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees."</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage[/URL]</p><p></p><p>This is something I think a lot of people seem to not be able to fathom these days. It wasn't established to provide the absolute bare minimum you could pay the pimply faced teenager that is working for gas money at McD's. It was "designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees." $7.25/hr for ANY job these days is FAR below what would provide any sort of semblance of a "minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beardking, post: 4192911, member: 31421"] "The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage[/URL] This is something I think a lot of people seem to not be able to fathom these days. It wasn't established to provide the absolute bare minimum you could pay the pimply faced teenager that is working for gas money at McD's. It was "designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees." $7.25/hr for ANY job these days is FAR below what would provide any sort of semblance of a "minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees." [/QUOTE]
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