And how many earn this? Around 1% of hourly employees…if that. Not what I’d be concerned with right now.

Why shouldn't we be concerned about it?

A society should be judged by how it treats those at the bottom and by that metric our current society is pretty awful.

? Who are you to say they deserve more than that.

	▲	adithyassekhar an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I come to this website everyday. And each day I lose faith in humanity a little more.
	▲	harimau777 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Who are you to say that they don't?
	▲	georgemcbay an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My own lived experience tells me they deserve more. The vast majority of people I've known who have worked for minimum wage were much harder workers and frankly just much better humans (who happened to have less privileged starts in life) than the vast majority of people I've known who are financially secure. But even if you don't believe they deserve more inherently, it would still be dumb for us to continue to let income inequality grow at the ridiculous rates it has been over the last 40 years. This pattern never turns out well for society.

ipaddr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not raise it then?

	▲	fakeBeerDrinker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know, ask the states that have lower wages on the books (even though federal prevails).