• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    what about the minimum wage being stuck at $7.25? some wait staff make half that still

    Biden is just throwing crumbs around like some elder on a park bench feeding pigeons

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      5 months ago

      Ah yes. Let’s the this other thing that’s not related restrict our ability to move forward.

      Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress.

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        5 months ago

        $15 an hour would be considered progress not perfection

        when has the US moved forward more than a baby step if that in the last half century? and we just lost most of that progress we did make in the last fifteen years

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          That wasn’t my point. The point is to not let lack of progress in one area detract from progress in another. I agree that the minimum wage is way too low, but that shouldn’t influence an attempt to cap rent increases.

          Obviously, both is better, but 1 is still progress and better than 0. If we don’t celebrate progress, we’ll never get better.

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        There has been no progress, wages have been too low for decades, housing is out of control, and all we get are table scraps