Minimum wage shouldn’t ever be a specific amount, it should be a percentage tied to some other economic metric, so that as inflation or cost of living rises, wages increase with it as well. This BS of having to wait for out-of-touch millionaire Congress members to approve of minimum wage increases is ridiculous.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Meanwhile, Congress has raised their own pay multiple times since they raised the minimum wage back in 2009.

Actually, looking into it, it seems that they gave themselves an automatic annual pay raise back in the ethics reforms act of 1989! Fucking assholes.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/97-615.html

"The automatic annual adjustment for Members of Congress is determined by a formula using a component of the Employment Cost Index (ECI),......"

".....This adjustment formula was established by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989."

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

In Europe we call this wage indexation, you should try it!

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Don't worry, we won't.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

Canadians and Europeans, hold on to this stuff. There are people trying to take away universal healthcare from Canada and Brexit happened. This shit can happen to anyone if you get complacent.

[–] parricc@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

How about we just make minimum wage a percentage of the highest income in the country? Take whoever made the most money in a given year, divide that by 52 weeks, and then divide that by 40 hours. Then divide whatever the result of that is by 1000. This should be very reasonable basis. It still allows for a huge wealth gap, but asserts that nobody should make over 1000 times more than anyone else. You still get rich and poor people, so this is in no way a leftist policy. It's a very moderate middle of the road one.

Anyway, looking at 2023. Not even examining his true income and how much he blew doing who knows what, Elon Musk had $95.4 billion net gain in wealth that year. Divide that by 52 weeks, 40 hours, and 1000 - we should make minimum wage $45865.38 per hour. And if that's not reasonable or feasible, it just means he makes too much for the good of the economy.