The “$15 is not enough” figure depends on state, the studies you refer to almost exclusively refer to to an average of all states. For example, <a href="http://livingwage.mit.edu/">MIT’s living wage calculator<a> says a living wage for a single adult in Wisconsin is $11.41. Looking at other midwestern states, the…

Hey, if you can’t open your brain long enough to see that a lot of people can make it just fine on the old minimum wage of $10, then that’s your problem and frankly I don’t give two sh!ts if you can afford your next month’s rent or not, because of your stupidity.

The post that everyone is responding to is a single anecdote.  I guess I’m missing where the data was in this post (or your response).

I mean, the article used anecdotes too, just sayin.

I know plenty of folks who didn’t push themselves to get a real job, making the current minimum wage of $10 per hour who can afford to rent a $600/month bedroom from someone. They’re getting by just fine.

It’s always one of those “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” things with me. Fighting for any wage number is not a great way to use resources without requiring that the wage is tied to cost of living or inflation, etc. Like, even if $15 sounds good to people now (and in lower cost areas it is good), by the time it…

That’s why the anticipated cost should be built into the price already, you can’t prepare for every expense but you can for this one. 

If your margins are so razor thin that you need to pass a 3% fee onto a subsection of your consumers, you probably should be focusing on improving other aspects of the business. Anyone who starts a business knows that these fees exist, so it should be built into the business plan and the price of the food and drinks ju…

So what happens when they reach their ‘full potential’?  Is it like some sort of Quickening, where they obtain the prize? Do they finally cum?  Can there only be one?

Quit screwing around and get on that payload ... dad

If people feel compelled to pay third parties to get a fun experience with the game, then Blizzard has dropped ball somewhere in terms of community management.

It’s kind of depressing to me that we live in a world where there’s legit economic reasons why this kind of thing may be necessary. I mean, I have no problem with them doing it, especially if they enjoy doing it. To me I shows how the traditional labor market is vanishing and being replaced with something less secure…

I don’t fault these ladies for what they’re doing at all, power to them. I do however think that anyone who actually regularly uses their services or “needs” it to enjoy the game is very strange.

I think we both know that if you were truly a Worthy Liberal you would have had the decency to have been born in LA. Seems like your fault for living in PA

Seriously, the fact that all these folks are patting themselves on the back for being so progressive while also being like “fuck y’all, I’ve got mine” to the millions of POC, LGBT, etc. people who don’t happen to live in California is pretty rich.

Thank you. The smug is strong with this one....

Also it feeds in to the bullshit narrative that republicans have been pushing my whole life, that I’ve been railing against. It is not the coasts vs. “real” middle America. You are not an elitist jerk and I’m not a conservative simpleton. The majorities are different, of course, but there are conservatives and idiots…

States can’t secede. We fought a war about this already. Jesus fucking Christ, California.

“I know how we can handle a Presidential loose cannon! Let’s start a civil war!!” - California