Have any data for the "minimum wage has NOT kept up."?Dude, are you serious with this?
Like people can just choose not to pay rent or mortgage. Or choose not to eat or put gas in their cars to get to work. Get out of here with this classist take.
Things cost more than they did 50 years ago. And 30 years ago. And 10 years ago. Minimum wage has NOT kept up.
Without a living wage, we revert back to, essentially, slave wages. Is that what you want?
1938 was the first minimum wage in the US at $0.25/hour. For today's minimum wage to not have kept up, it would have had to be 4.18% inflation every year since 1938 for $7.50 to be "kept up." Inflation is not 4.18%. Calling $15/hour as keeping up with inflation, that means inflation has been 5.06% since the first minimum wage. How has it not kept up?
All I'm saying is, it's our fault, the consumers and the workers. The companies are doing what they are allowed to do by the decisions of people. For example, how expensive would an iPhone be if everyone who complains about the price of iPhones weren't standing in line for 3 days with their wallet out complaining about the price? Cars are getting ridiculous. Why is that? Could it be because we are willing to continue extending our debt for cars 7, 8, 9 years? We the consumers and workers have the power, we just refuse to show it.