Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

were you paying rent and or bills?

Yes, barely.. and survived mostly off of the free six inch subs & ramen.

were you raising some savings or at least emergency funds?

Hah! Savings at minimum wage..

I think my point has been made

I see nothing wrong with this.

Because minimum wage should not be a resting point for an individual.

and yet most of these jobs need to be filled

Should be by teens.

Minimum wage is an entrance point and indicates the employee is high risk/low skill as a result of limited work history.

However, I will give that raising it with inflation in mind is not a bad compromise point.

lauc - could be employeer taking advantage of a skilled worker who had low self worth

The employee is responsible for moving on, then.

what if they enjoy their job? and its not about $$ for them

Then they should find one that is adequate to cover the ends.

and more to the point, what of the small business that can only afford unskilled labour

also tons of markets do employee turnaround... thus keeping costs low... example hotels and restaurants

or the hospitalities industry

as the whole thing*

Raising minimum wage hurts small biz foremost.

you know, jobs that need to be done

Which is in consideration of why I said small incremental increase over time.

exactly

I'm just leary of large increases that crush the chance for small biz.

u make it seem like small biz isnt getting annihilated anyways

like walmart moves into an area... and within a year basically any small biz that tries to compete in with anything walmart sells... have disappeared

my main point is, saying "just move up" is appropriate advice for people looking to, maybe, get a new house, or a new car, or start a hobby, or start a family

Small shops only exist in my city because my city is taking feminist dance theory

not to simply survive

Except that's how it is, and honestly how I think it should be.. because *just* surviving should not be the aim.

And enabling folks to just survive isn't good enough to keep entropy at bay.

so called free derry. what a shit hole.

maybe it shouldn't be an aim, but it should be achievable at the minimum

Except if it's achievable at minimum why bother going beyond min?

more like pee derry

that's a matter of personal motivation. You want an improvment on your life? put in the effort to improve.

again, improvement should be encouraged

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