I'm not the kind of jerk who believes some people in certain professions or some jobs are not deserving of making a living wage. Antagonizing someone's interest in having a fair living wage for everyone speaks volumes and is deserving of being called a tyrant. But someone advocating for it, without an actual plan seems like an actual big talker idiot.
My question, is more about realistic terms. For example; everyone has a “waagh” scenario about their bad employer, quitting story, victim-hood, and overall self-righteousness. But I'm yet, to see a single proposal on how things, in realistic terms could work-out for the greater good.
If a living wage is taking into consideration, the opportunity to pay mortgage/rent, bills, food, at least a week vacation, savings, retirement account, raising a family etc… after a 40 hour work week, then the questions is what's that living wage?
Suppose, as an example, it is factored to be 100.00 dollars an hour = 4000.00 a week. Great but if your lawn-care guy also needs to make that, your grocery clerk, your tax pro, your every effin service, your toilet paper producers' employees…. then at that moment the 100.00 dollars an hour wage becomes the new minimum wage, just like the one today at 7.25 to 15.00 depending on the state.
In other words, how the hell do you create a living wage without excluding most from it? In other words, and again, if I make 500.00 dollars per hour now, I'm the new rich so as long as everyone makes less than 20.00 per hour but if everyone does make 500.00 per hour, then I'm still at the poverty line because in 8 hrs I made 4k but my haircut lady making minimum wage charged me for an hour 400.00…. it's no brainier. I'm not complaining that it shouldn't be, I'm asking how???
So again, asking realistically here, what do you propose to make a living wage for everyone?