I guess you could call my dilemma a matter of capitalist conditioning.
TL;DR: I work a pizza place job and I struggle to think it is worthy of a living wage and all the other fixings despite my philosophy deeming the wage necessary.
So, my philosophy has always been that happiness and survival are human rights, just as the Declaration of Independance says. Part of achieving those goals iss, obviously, the living wage, at the very least. Despite that, I find it very difficult to bring myself to ask for more from my boss even though I work a measly $.20 over my state's minimum wage. Why? Probably because nobody else at my job works for very much at all, he's a nice dude outside of work, and the fact that I foolishly lowballed myself into this position, and it feels like a douche move to try and bump up a buck fifty to where I want to start working only after six weeks. Has anyone else had this issue?
Sidenote, I live with my friend and his parents, and Ive always wondered if I could live on my own in a cheap apartment. Turns out, you can't really do that easily on $12,000 a year, but I question even my math there because I spend money on hobbies like video games and Magic: The Gathering.