Several greeting cards at the store today were priced at $8.50. A person making

[spooky3]

federal minimum wage would have to work nearly two hours (given taxes, etc.) to buy a damn greeting card.

We need to change the federal minimum wage.

[frazzled]

1. And the price of greeting cards

They’re ridiculous.

[live love laugh]

7. +1 They got me. I just bought an 8.99 card (because it was pretty ... purple sequins).

But card prices are wayyyy off. I’m going to start making my own.

[tavernier]

2. Great selection at Dollar Tree.

Some 2 for 1 $.

I take your point, but the price of greeting cards at a drugstore or department store is just bizarre.

[spooky3]

3. You can also create your own to save money. But I'm glad you

see that my point is really how ridiculously low the federal minimum wage is.

[cbdo2007]

4. Maybe everyone doesn't need to buy the most expensive of something.

Thats like saying I can't belive there are Lamborghini cars. How is someone on minimum wage supposed to afford that?

[spooky3]

5. It's not at all the same thing and the order of magnitude is highly relevant.

The point is to provide some perspective on how low the minimum wage is. If it would make more sense to you, count the number of half gallons of milk an hour of the post-tax minimum wage would buy.

[cbdo2007]

13. Milk is pretty standard no matter which brand you buy or which store you go to. Greeting cards range

from .50 each at Dollar Tree to $8.99 at other retailers.

So a greeting card at one place is 1/20 of what it is at other places, just like you could buy a Lamborghini for $400,000 or you could pay 1/20th of that and get a Kia for $20,000.

NOT that I don't think $8.99 is too expensive for a greeting card, I think anyone would be a fool to pay that much for one, I just think this is a poor example of the minimum wage argument, whereas the milk example is much better as that is actually something most people buy/need as a part of their regular diet and the prices are pretty standard as mentioned above.

[Mr.Bill]

6. With minimum wage, I like to index it to the price of gas.

When I made MW in high school, it was $1.65. But I could buy five gallons of gas with that. Today, where I live that five gallons of gas costs over $15.00.

[vercetti2021]

8. Hallmark right?

Overpriced greeting cards and really shitty holiday movies starring Candace Cameron Bure in every single fucking one of them

[lpbk2713]

9. Imagine if you have to pay for a sitter.

Or for the gasoline it takes to drive several miles to a crappy job.

[BigmanPigman]

10. My friends (fellow artists) are still starving

so the companies that produce the cards must be getting the big bucks since it certinly isn't filtering down to those who created the work.

[Grasswire2]

11. Trader Joe's has charming greetings cards for just a dollar each.

Very attractive.

[Raine]

12. That's a ridiculous price! 👎 I've gotten really nice cards at dollar stores

REALLY nice, some of them are made in England and have great detailing on them. If a dollar store can sell cards for a dollar it's shameful that other places can charge so much! I don't know how low income people could ever pay such prices.