A conservative relative once told me

[Ohiogal]

“Not all jobs are meant to provide a living wage.”

So where do you draw the line in Conservative World?

[brewens]

1. That used to apply to almost all jobs. What did that relative do for a living? Chances are

he made good money courtesy of the labor movement.

[Cary]

13. Chances are high that someone dropped that person on his or her head

There is no good reason to not pay a living wage. There's only excuses.

The economy is Consumer Spending + Investment + Government Spending + Exports - Imports. The economy is 2/3 consumer spending. You need to pay people enough to buy the goods and services that you can produce.

[CrispyQ]

2. If it's for you and yours, then no living wage. If it's for them and theirs, then a living wage.

Family values = my family is valuable, yours is not. That pretty much sums up republican thinking.

[pwb]

7. Never heard that, good one !

[Thomas Hurt]

10. yep, me and mine are always the betters, you and yours the lessers and to be used.

[Cary]

3. "Meant" by whom?

Not all economic illiterates are meant to be taken seriously.

Meant in this instance by me.

[Rider3]

4. Another conservative...

who grew up extremely priviledged, told me that she didn't believe certain jobs warranted healthcare, such as support workers. I haven't spoken to her in about a year now, since she made that comment. She's over 50 and daddy still keeps her going financially.

[Girard442]

5. Maybe if you're 14 years old mowing lawns.

[democratisphere]

6. Republican conservatives would reestablish a form of slavery if they could.

Thankfully, we won't allow it!

[efhmc]

9. You have more faith that it will not happen than I do.

We already have lots of economic slaves in this country.

[democratisphere]

11. Totally agree. Employees in many companies get no respect

and are treated very poorly.

[LakeArenal]

8. Yeah.. Sounds like slavery.

Not all jobs are 40+ hours a week. Some jobs have no benefits. Some jobs are for not for rent or groceries or transportation.

But if they are those things, they better pay a living wage, assholes.

[treestar]

12. This is a statement that reeks

Of white privilege. Middle class person with zero idea that it advantages them in any way to be born in it. Those jobs are for teens after school or those working themselves through college. They are also living back in times earlier than 1980. When you could pay for college with that and summer jobs.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Hasn't Trump and a few others on his "team"

said that they believe the minimum wage should be 0?

[Baked Potato]

15. Yes, and then the State provides the rest.

These “conservatives” conserve their own money and let the social services provide the rest. The same social services they want to eliminate.

[Niagara]

16. It was over a decade ago

I once had a conservative in-law tell me that if they found a cure for cancer that it would put doctors out of work.


Not to hijack your OP, but it's the same idiotic influenced mentality. Luckily, this person is no longer an in-law to me.