Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage

When are we going to stop caring about human rights and start caring about billionaires???

I'm just getting angrier and more pitchforky as I get older! If my old teachers who said that shit were still alive I'd be shrieking how no, no I did absolutely not get more conservative damn it.

Someone mentioned "growing more conservative" could mean holding on to the gains, specifically material gains. Like, one of the key contributing factors to the housing crisis is NIMBYism. Plenty of house owners are maybe socially progressive and feel bad about injustice; but many of them, especially old people, vote down proposals to build affordable housing because it affects their property value. If I bought a house for €300k and in thirty years it is now worth €16 million. I would not even mind if the house value depreciates by one or two million, or even ten. What am I even going to do with that much money? If my net worth is six million, that is more than enough for me.

I think when the right say "becoming more conservative" as one grows older, it seems like a coded phrase to mean becoming greedy. And it seems to be the case that could happen to everyone regardless of whether one is left or right when they were younger. Which makes me realise that this is the point Squid Game is making.

It's not even that much of a gap. They'll crush their employees under the weight of dozen elephants if it nets them an extra 5%.

In short, no. No we don't. Please send help.

No we literally do not.

It is pretty much impossible to afford a studio apartment almost anywhere in the country with a full time, min wage job.

Our guidelines for what counts as poverty are a total joke.

I live off of about 24k a year while I am recovering from a bunch of injuries, and most states do not consider that poor enough to qualify for pretty much any assistance.

We also just gutted Section 8, so basically about 5 to 10 million people are gonna become homeless by the end of the year.

A lot of people don't believe jobs should make a living wage. They argue that if you want to make enough money to survive, you should get an education or work your way up out of entry level, while conveniently ignoring the fact that they've made education wildly expensive and that minimum wage is so outdated that in some places you can make double or triple minimum wage and still not be considered making enough to survive as a single adult with no dependents (I make over 3x minimum wage and rent on a small 1 bedroom apartment is over half my paycheck, if I don't work OT shifts I don't go grocery shopping that month). They also like to complain that no one wants to work anymore. My personal take is that if a job is worthwhile enough to society that someone needs to do it, that person deserves to make enough to survive, but apparently that's a wildly socialist take in this country.

There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.

Maybe he'll get free delivery out of it.