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(KLKN-TV Lincoln)   So, a "separate but equal" wage, you say?   (klkntv.com) divider line
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unixpro [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 5:26:11 PM  
That's it, farkwad, pay those trying to stand on their own less than minimum wage.  These aren't just high school kids, dipshiat.  They're people who have lost their spouses through death or divorce.  They're factory workers who have lost their jobs as their profession shut down.  They're senior citizens trying to make ends meet.  They're human beings, you insufferable twat.  Go screw a light socket.
 
enry [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 5:32:03 PM  
Age discrimination is still discrimination
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 5:33:44 PM  
Jared Dunn Triumph of the Will - Silicon Valley S2E09
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Lambskincoat [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 6:00:01 PM  
Republicans hate to see anyone but rich people get money, because only they are truly favored by god or something. They want ten different levels of minimum wage before $15 minimum, and zero taxes on every dollar over $100k.
 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 7:04:18 PM  
"So, we can't get away with paying adults less, but can we just get away with dunking on kids looking for a summer job to help pay for college? Because that totes won't affect anything else, right?"
 
aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:06:20 PM  
Don't live in Nebraska.
 
mistahtom
2023-01-30 9:06:24 PM  
The less money they have the less guns they can buy.
 
SomeAmerican
2023-01-30 9:06:41 PM  
Every dollar I make is separate but equal.
 
lilbjorn
2023-01-30 9:07:49 PM  
Supporters say these changes would help smaller businesses.

So, restrict it to small businesses?  Betcha that's not who is paying the lobbyists to push this.
 
MLWS
2023-01-30 9:08:24 PM  
I don't know if it's still a thing here in Ontario but there used to be a student minimum wage and an adult minimum wage. I was working at a restaurant for a Greek family and I turned 18 but didn't tell them for several months because I knew they were cheap and I suspected they would fire me if I told them they had to pay me adult Minimum wage. Turns out I was spot on correct.
 
New Rising Sun
2023-01-30 9:08:24 PM  
Yet another time to use this:

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hammettman
2023-01-30 9:08:56 PM  
The cornholer state.
 
MaliFinn
2023-01-30 9:10:25 PM  
Easy choice.  Sell drugs.
 
aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:11:01 PM  

mistahtom: The less money they have the less guns they can buy.


"Fewer"
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-01-30 9:11:02 PM  
Just... beyond f*cking irritating.
 
Alwysadydrmr [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:11:36 PM  
I'm so farking tired of this mentality that part-timers and high schoolers inherently deserve less pay. I hear people say, "well, $12/hr isn't bad for a part-time job" or "well, they're just teenagers." Fark that shiat. They don't get charged less in rent or for groceries bc they're part-time or teenagers. Everyone working deserves to make a fair wage.
 
austerity101
2023-01-30 9:11:40 PM  

enry: Age discrimination is still discrimination


Our laws are A-OK with ageism as long as it's against young people. Explicitly.
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-01-30 9:11:41 PM  

aleister_greynight: mistahtom: The less money they have the less guns they can buy.

"Fewer"


"The fewer money they have?" That doesn't sound right
 
Target Builder
2023-01-30 9:11:45 PM  
Voters issue by issue: We want living wages, a fair minimum wage, worker protections, legal marijuana, sentencing reform, action on climate, infrastructure, safe working places, good schools, training for young people, affordable housing...

GOP: We hate every one of those things with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. We hate them and we hate you for asking for them. We will fight them to our your dying breath and then we will have you ground into animal feed. USA! USA! USA!

Voters: 😍😍😍
 
austerity101
2023-01-30 9:12:39 PM  

lilbjorn: Supporters say these changes would help smaller businesses.

So, restrict it to small businesses?  Betcha that's not who is paying the lobbyists to push this.


This is the correct response. If it's to help small businesses, then only small businesses should get this benefit.  And then watch them explain how that wouldn't be fair--but paying people less for being young is, somehow.
 
moothemagiccow
2023-01-30 9:13:08 PM  
Supporters say these changes would help smaller businesses.

exploit people. They help smaller businesses exploit people.

//like how they're using "smaller" instead of "small" now
 
Another Government Employee
2023-01-30 9:14:05 PM  
Training wage? Nah, that ain't going to get abused. At all.
 
moothemagiccow
2023-01-30 9:15:24 PM  

lilbjorn: Supporters say these changes would help smaller businesses.

So, restrict it to small businesses?  Betcha that's not who is paying the lobbyists to push this.


No. If your business relies on paying people less than what they're worth, you don't have a truly viable business. Suffering cannot be part of your business model.
Even the wall street people call this "sweat equity." Except here it's someone else's sweat.
 
Hinged
2023-01-30 9:16:03 PM  
The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.
 
nicholas m schumacher [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:16:26 PM  
heck, let's just assume today's 14-17 yr old was like when i first got a job at 16 at family places of business and I just did it to have spending money at my local comic shop.

And let's say I remembered things wrong and instead of 5 bucks an hour washing cars or pushing brooms, I only pulled about 4 bucks an hour.

In the 90s I could make basically 3 comics an hour after taxes on those wages. At 10 bucks an hour with comic prices today? You couldn't even get two an hour.

What a freakin' rip.
 
NephilimNexus
2023-01-30 9:16:46 PM  
It would set a minimum training wage for employees between 18 and 20-years-old as well.  They would also only be making $10 per hour by that same year.

"Training" = The time between the moment your employment begins and the moment that it ends.
 
FormlessOne
2023-01-30 9:17:22 PM  
"You won't let me enslave immigrants? Fine. Kids it is, then."
 
LarryDan43
2023-01-30 9:18:25 PM  

Hinged: The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.


Exacrly!! Bring back slavery! They lived in a safer neighborhood and were happier back then.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2023-01-30 9:18:31 PM  

Hinged: The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.


You should change your profile name to Unhinged.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-30 9:21:19 PM  
It's no surprise that the "Nobody wants to work!" crowd is against living wages.

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"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level -- I mean the wages of decent living." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
 
jake3988 [OhFark]
2023-01-30 9:23:13 PM  
All states actually have a law that minimum wage for someone less than age 20 is way lower for the first 90 days, which I've always found ridiculous.

But there's actually a number of states that have a lower minimum wage for non-adults.  Illinois, Michigan, Washington, New Jersey, and Ohio [Ohio is 14 and 15 year olds].  I thought Pennsylvania did too, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Oddly enough, all are blue states except for Ohio.
 
Kazan
2023-01-30 9:23:51 PM  

Lambskincoat: Republicans hate to see anyone but rich people get money, because only they are truly favored by god or something. They want ten different levels of minimum wage before $15 minimum, and zero taxes on every dollar over $100k.


this reddit post has a good explanation of the psychology involved in conservative politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/zrubsc/trumps_tax_returns_show_he_paid_no_taxes_in_2020/j150odt/
 
AcneVulgaris
2023-01-30 9:23:54 PM  
Not like this is age discrimination or anything....
 
Kazan
2023-01-30 9:24:18 PM  

Hinged: The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.


you really are committed to being nothing but a piece steaming stinky piece of shiat, aren't you?
 
TelemonianAjax [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:24:27 PM  

Hinged: The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.


How would that help society?
 
Kazan
2023-01-30 9:25:09 PM  

jake3988: All states actually have a law that minimum wage for someone less than age 20 is way lower for the first 90 days, which I've always found ridiculous.



[CITATION NEEDED]
 
TorpedoOrca
2023-01-30 9:25:29 PM  

DarkSoulNoHope: Hinged: The problem is the Minimum Wage itself.

There shouldn't be one.

You should change your profile name to Unhinged.


The username is the troll
 
Chuck Wagon
2023-01-30 9:26:18 PM  
I thought minimum wage jobs were supposed to be low to no skill? If that is true, then there shouldn't be any training required for a minimum wage job.
 
Bennie Crabtree
2023-01-30 9:26:33 PM  
Without clicking the link, I am pretty sure that "separate but equal" is the premise of the gender wage gap.
 
monsatano [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 9:27:11 PM  
If you think that's bad, you should see what Goodwill is legally allowed to pay their mentally handicapped employees.
 
Hyjamon
2023-01-30 9:29:23 PM  

Chuck Wagon: I thought minimum wage jobs were supposed to be low to no skill? If that is true, then there shouldn't be any training required for a minimum wage job.


shhh. Logic has no power here

/came to make a similar point.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2023-01-30 9:29:43 PM  
Damn Commies with their managed economy...

That's what the Invisible Hand of the Free Market is for you weenies!
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-01-30 9:30:14 PM  

NephilimNexus: It would set a minimum training wage for employees between 18 and 20-years-old as well.  They would also only be making $10 per hour by that same year.

"Training" = The time between the moment your employment begins and the moment that it ends.


Yeah, there's no way employers will abuse that "training wage" BS

/s
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-30 9:30:27 PM  

Chuck Wagon: I thought minimum wage jobs were supposed to be low to no skill? If that is true, then there shouldn't be any training required for a minimum wage job.


As I posted ITT, the minimum wage was always meant be a living wage.
 
FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:30:46 PM  
If this passes, Nebraska teens need to sue the fark out of their state government. Do the same work for less pay because they're younger than 18 because fark you? No no, Nebraska, fark YOU.
 
Diasdiem
2023-01-30 9:31:25 PM  
fark that. Work is work is work, no matter who is doing it or how old they are. Employees are an investment, an asset, not a liability, and it is time that business owners, large and small, realize that.
 
kmgenesis23
2023-01-30 9:31:40 PM  

aleister_greynight: Don't live in Nebraska.


As a former Nebraskan, I second your resolution.
 
sirrerun
2023-01-30 9:32:21 PM  
Chris Rock Minimum Wage
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Diasdiem
2023-01-30 9:33:20 PM  

Chuck Wagon: I thought minimum wage jobs were supposed to be low to no skill? If that is true, then there shouldn't be any training required for a minimum wage job.


If low to no skill jobs should be minimum wage, then most business owners should only earn minimum wage. After all, it doesn't take much skill to count money other people earned and run it to the bank.
 
abitofbuffalo
2023-01-30 9:33:51 PM  
So anyone over 20 will have trouble finding any kind of entry level job while companies burn through kids and fire them as soon as they become more expensive.
 
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