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Originally Posted by kstar
You obviously don't know many people or are an elitist that doesn't properly socialize. OK has one of the highest rates of people working for minimum wage. Almost all of those people fall below the poverty line.
And if you think that people who work for minimum wage don't contribute to society, you are sorely mistaken. Every restaurant would close, since many of those people work for less than minimum wage.
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Waitresses make make less then min BASE PAY, but I've waitressed before. Unless you're a crappy waitress, you make a pretty good hourly when you add in the tips. Kitchen staff also make more then min. wage.
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Originally Posted by kstar
The orderlies at the hospital would be gone, and I don't think that doctors would be willing to sully their hands with taking out the trash...
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I doubt there are ANY hospitals that pay ANY of their employees min. wage.
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Most jobs that are neccessary for society to keep going are minimum wage jobs.
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Name a few, besides the ones I've already told you aren't true.
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Hell, half the teachers I know have to take a less than minimum wage job just to live over the poverty line.
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There is no such thing as a "less then min. wage job" for anyone with a legal SSN.
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Originally Posted by kstar
Minimum wage should be raised. Most small and medium businesses I've worked at pay far over minimum wage, while it's the big business box stores that pay the bare minimum. Walmart is reporting record profits, while their employees are barely making over 5.25 and are losing benefits.
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I worked at Walmart in Highschool five years ago and I made $6.50 an hour. Fulltime employees make more then that, plus the benefits aren't as crappy as people like to make you think they are.