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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's odd that people feel personally insulted by an increased minimum wage. Like, they want low-wage workers to suffer in order to buttress their sense of self-worth.[/quote]

So naturally you'll be getting a proportional increase in your own pay, right? In fact, everyone will, right?

Because otherwise, YOUR work and YOUR skillset (and all the education, and trouble you went through to acquire it) are now devalued proportionally. Because people with NO skill are now closer to your wage, while yours did not rise in keeping.

So you're worth less. Despite the fact that you've worked very hard to acquire skills far beyond the minimum. [/quote]

You know, that doesn't bother me in the slightest. Probably because poor people work far harder, overall, than most professionals. [/quote]

Unlike you, I've done "poor people" work. And while it may (or not, but mine was) be more physically taxing than my current profession, it is far, FAR easier in terms of stress, time consumed, and overall pressure.

When I was finished after 8 hours of running an Ingersol jackhammer, I was done and went home. Or went for a beer with friends. Or went fishing. I had free weekends and evenings, and no responsibilities at work other than doing what I was told for 40 hours each week. Physically demands aside, it's easy.

Now? I put in a minimum of 50 hours most weeks, sometimes more, and unlike when I did poor work, I don't get overtime. If we have a project due, I'm working 16 hours a day, sometimes even weekends. I have a team of people I need to manage, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and I have to keep tabs on all of them. And forget about leaving work at work. I answer emails at 2am, and I'm constantly focused on work every waking hour.

Yes, I make far more now than I did running a jackhammer. And I work far harder now.

But you imagine otherwise,  because you've never worked low end jobs, so you have no frame of reference.  [/quote]

YMMV, but I've worked fast food jobs, and I'm currently an attorney.  Fast food job was much more draining, taxing and was overall much harder.[/quote]

Fast food, as in, a minimum wage fast food worker? And that was harder than being an attorney? [/quote]

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