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4. It's a constant drone of propaganda over low wage workers getting raises

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I don't think people understand how relentless the propaganda is. It's so bad, that some of the actual low wage workers are on board with keep wages low.

They blame inflation on McDonald's workers making $16 an hour.

Had a conversation with a freind and our bartender a few weeks ago. Here in Michigan, they are raisiing the minimum wage for tipped workers to $12 an hour. The bartender was complaining that that's too much... Said people will tip her less, I said, well I won;t, still getting $1-2 per beer from me. Then she talked about McDonalds and how everything is a buck or two more an item now because the workers make so much more now. I had a good comeback, "Well, I'm willing to pay an extra dollar if it means some worker can earn a living, that's why I tip you $1 a beer."

The my biddy chimes in with how these are entry level jobs and not meant to make a living at, and the workers should be trying to learn skills to move up to better jobs. Iused to work with this guy at a restaurant in 1990, so I asked what he made as a line cook in 1990. He answered like $7 an hour, so I got out my phone for an inflation calculator, "Dude, $7 in 1990 is $17 today, so you're bitching about kids making $16 an hour for restaurant work today when you were making more than that in 1990 dollars."

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

They gewt regular people to lead the charge against wage growth. But none of these people even realize that they were once or are currently the people they are talking about depressing wages for.