Lament of the Mind

jean-luc-gohard:

confessionsofapeach:

jean-luc-gohard:

Another thing that irks me about this “minimum wage is just a start” bullshit is that it has no practical meaning. Landlords don’t give you starter’s rent. Grocery stores don’t give you a just-starting-out discount. There are no training wheel prices, so who the fuck would a training wheel job be for? Keeping in mind, of course, that the idea of most minimum wage workers being high school kids living with their parents is a myth.

I’ll believe this when I see a source attached

Well gawrsh, it’s not like you could have “googled” the phrase “minimum wage worker statistics” and found this document from the federal government pointing out that 76.8% of minimum wage workers are above the age of 19 and thus almost certainly out of high school.