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Here’s a Wild Thought: Minimum Wage Employees Have Value Too
Twitter can’t seem to agree, so here’s the truth
I can’t believe I have to say this, but if you work a minimum wage job, you have value as a person.
Twitter can be a great way to see live events from a worldwide perspective at any given moment. It can also be an incredibly toxic echo chamber of half-baked opinions, negativity, and frustration. And I’m ashamed to admit I fell down the rabbit hole.
It started when I saw this thread:
Now, the thread itself is one that I actually agree with. Amid President-Elect Biden’s proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, the debate has sparked online as to whether or not minimum wage employees deserve more money — specifically, whether or not they deserve enough money to live on.
Give me a fucking break.
All you have to do is look back to what Franklin D. Roosevelt said when the National Industrial Recovery Act was passed in 1933:
