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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 85 points 2 days ago

I met Americans telling me that these poor corporations can't survive if they have to pay a minimum salary and how it was meant for teenagers ... it was weird. I was like, you live in SF ... what's the minimum again? how much is rent again?

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 day ago

It's just objectively false. The minimum wage was not "meant for teenagers".

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can hem and haw all day and what minimum wage should be, but what it was meant to be is unambiguously clear.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Back when you could still say "businesses don't have rights"...

Years ago during an NFL strike the guy who owned the Carolina Panthers, cried this bullshit all the way to the bargaining table...years later only to discover the guy was literally making the most money

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And worse if they have tl pay taxes as the rest of us! How can people be so cruel toward these poor corpos? /s

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2026
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