Suggest that they use the college and town as a model, raise the minimum wage and then study it to see how the town/college improves

I'm not that good of a liar and I don't really want to hide behind "asking for a friend."

or something like that

But you arent lying and you arent asking for a friend

You do agree that people should have a liveable wage

People should have the ability to earn a livable wage

to be honest, I don't even know what their idea of a liveable wage. It's been conveniently left out of all their posters

Nothing is deserved in life.

I don't know how much the staff here are paid

And you do know many people that are hung up on the question of where the money will come from

you are one of them in fact, but you wont say that

If you dont want to do this for whatever reason asking for clarification is probably the next best thing

If I want to talk to them, I want to learn how much the staff are getting paid and what the students think the "living wage" is. I'm going to guess that cost of living here in bumfuck, Ohio is pretty low compared to a major city

Suggest that they raise their wages to the same level as canada, 110 per hour

110?

do you mean 11

nope

110 dollars per hour, that doesn't sound like a recipe for inflation or anything

one hundred and ten candian dollars per hour was the wage for teachers at the university of toronto last time they went on strike for higher wages

I don't think they're talking about teachers

I think they're talking about the staff

like janitors and stuff

Doesnt matter if they're talking about teachers or not

The point is that canada is seen as a better version of america, but many people dont know much about how it actually functions

yeah I think it does. A janitor shouldn't be earning 110 dollars per hour

okay

there is a lot of bloat

Nobody minds a janitor earning $100/hr if that wage is merited.

Most of the time their knowledge stops at "universal healthcare, low gun crime, tredeau, legalized weed and sorry eh"

why would that be beneficial to me

the whole point of this is why I don't want to join the protest

The minimum wage should be abolished. It is the greatest barrier to the underprivileged to gain entry to the workforce.

Your goal is nothing more than to see if they actually have a goal at all

Nah i like minimum wage

Janitors in schools and hospitals have great benefits and pension plans, that is paid by the tax payers mine you (while the private sector has to also pay for their own) so no, I don think they should earn that much.

I had actually considered telling them that whatever they're doing isn't enough. Like, if they think the wage should be 15, it really should be 30

By putting forth a number which most people would regard as very high you force them to correct you, or risk scaring off the general population

just to see how far I could push them into lunacy

Not everyone has an IQ above 90. Yet these people are denied entry to the workforce due to minimum wage restrictions thus placing undue pressure on social welfare programs.

This is sort of an extension of the 15-30 effort, but its increased to allow for maximum shock value

Raiding the minimum wage will only serve to accelerate automation in effort to defray the cost, driving more underprivileged workers out of the workforce.