I see this dot not getting connected a lot of the time with things like “they will be making as much as me to flip burgers!”. Why are you okay making so little?
I want to go back to a story about two years ago a co-worker and I where made to go out on a weekend to work. Both under salary so no overtime and they didn’t even let us comp our time to make up for losing part of our weekends. What’s fucked up is my co-worker was making 40k/yr and we found out the work we did paid the company $6,000 for each of us.
My co worker had an annual review not to long after this and politely asked what the options for raises where. They immediately turned and gas lit them. Told them it was completely unacceptable to even bring up money in an annual review. Needless to say we both left this company not long after. My point here is that salary can look great on paper until you starts working 80hr weeks. It’s great until you realize you could make slightly less and have a job you don’t take home with you. This reform to minimum wage needs to push the salary pay up as well. It’s the same fight but for different reasons.