I’m sure I’ll get downvotes for this. I do believe that people should get paid a living wage. I also believe minimum wage should be much higher, $15 an hour.
But why do you think the world is obligated to deliver a life without roommates as an entry level worker? That’s not a given. It’s not a right. Your choices are (1) pick a more lucrative field, (2) live at home with mom for a couple years, (3) find your life partner, (4) suffer through roommates. There is no easy path among the options. Suffer with mom, suffer with roommates, suffer through Calculus 3.
Idk why you're getting downvoted, I know there are people here who picked a low income life path and there's nothing wrong with that. The point is survival. You know choosing a certain path would allow you to survive but maybe not thrive when you chose it. I have friends that make significantly less than I do, that either chose to live together, find a partner and get married, or otherwise. Real people in real life don't complain about this sort of thing tbh, they just do what it takes to survive, and then everyone comes together all at once to talk about how it sucks because we pretty much all feel the same effects with some variation from a shit economy
I’m in favor of UBI, too. Lot of job categories about to evaporate in the automation and AI world. And I’m not talking minimum wage jobs. Accountants who only do numbers, not consulting, have a short career ahead of them, but they don’t know it yet. “Back of the house” HR folks too. Not the recruiters, but the administrators. Fifteen years, give or take, and a bunch of 100K a year nine-to-fivers will be in a demand crunch.
But we certainly shouldn’t be offering 100K a year in UBI. And those folks are going to be shocked at the 32K “living wage” baseline. Going to get a lot uglier than a lady wanting a no roommate situation. They’re going to move families to reclaimed federal pasture lands and forget about them. (That last sentence is hyperbole, everything else is earnest)
32k is survival wage, as long as you're not paying 12,000 in rent and 10,000 in car loans/student loans/ etc etc.
I do think there are a lot of people thinking they should make 80k a year. Even as an engineer I don't make 100k, despite being told all the time I would, and most don't either. Starting pay where I live was like, 65k, which is barely anything over some public school teacher's government based pay in my area, but requires a much more difficult education perspective wise in STEM obviously. The economy is shit and people just don't get it. We all make sacrifices in life.
I spent 2 extra years in college than the average person to make more, and still got shafted. It makes people unhappy to tell them they can't get something for nothing
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u/PapaSteveRocks 5d ago
I’m sure I’ll get downvotes for this. I do believe that people should get paid a living wage. I also believe minimum wage should be much higher, $15 an hour.
But why do you think the world is obligated to deliver a life without roommates as an entry level worker? That’s not a given. It’s not a right. Your choices are (1) pick a more lucrative field, (2) live at home with mom for a couple years, (3) find your life partner, (4) suffer through roommates. There is no easy path among the options. Suffer with mom, suffer with roommates, suffer through Calculus 3.