A Living Wage Should Be A Constitutional Right

Here’s your sign
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If anything, full healthcare is one of the keys to fixing economic inequality and wage issues. Not having your health insurance tied to your employer is massively empowering to employees, allowing them much more latitude to take risk on, switching jobs or starting a business or the like.

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It’s amazing how just a different letter here and there can precisely describe why it has not changed.

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Imagine that.
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Wow. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Imagine that indeed.

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Please.

FDR was no communist and proposing we add fundamental human rights to our Constitution is not unreasonable.

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You can’t have real life or liberty or pursue happiness if you don’t make a living wage.

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Biden is just riding on the coattails of T**'s best economy in US history.

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Being treated decently ought to be everyone’s right and expectation but there are those among the human species who must hate their fellow humans to feel better. Power is the game.

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Happiness does not equal money but it sure does help.

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The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment

You’re not defining “RIGHTS” it’s a list of aspirational goals. Admirable, but not workable.

I agree. It really doesn’t but what it does do is make it possible to solve problems. We all have problems come up every damn day and usually they cost money to fix and if you don’t have to worry all the time because you don’t have the money to fix things, including yourself when you’re sick, it’s all so much easier and less stressful.

Money doesn’t equal happiness but neither does poverty.

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I’ve had jobs where people plotted and conspired to get you in trouble for no gain for themselves. I never understood that.

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I am fine with Universal healthcare. I become more uncomfortable with the idea of ‘everyone gets a minimum sustenance’ stipend.

The only part of that that bothers me is the “everyone” part of it. I don’t think those of us who don’t need it should get it so there should be an income cut-off point.

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But there is. Just like with ‘mean girls’ the payback is easing your pain by inflicting it on others.

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Because office intrigue can be fun?

Like whomever Megan Markle pissed off at The Firm which led to them driving her out by any means possible.

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I’m at the leading edge of the Baby Boomer generation. My salary when I entered the work force with a Bachelor’s Degree and no relevant experience was the equivalent of $75,000 in January 2021 dollars. My employer provided comprehensive health insurance (when our first child was born our total out of pocket expense was long distance telephone charges for calls to both sets of new grandparents) and a company funded retirement plan. We could buy a house in Southern California and live a comfortable middle class life style on one income. Things have changed a bit since then.

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Yeah, I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of rights (or constitutional rights) to have it be a constitutional right.
Micromanaging the economy doesn’t seem to me to be constitutional purview but legislative purview.
I don’t think you even have to be that particularly right-wing to think it’s outside the realm of rights in the constitution.
It’s also completely pie in the sky and will never happen.

Well, yes if you’re already gainfully employed, you wouldn’t get the stipend. You know, got off your ass and got a job. :smiling_imp: The idea floating is everyone, job or not gets paid a certain base sustenance level. The only way I’d agree to something like that is it comes with some sort of contractual work or public service requirement.