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    Then change the business model or fail.

    One could easily imagine a business that only works if they pay employees 50 cents a day. Such a business has no place in a society that respects human dignity.

    If your business depends on purchasing a third of someone’s waking hours but cannot afford to pay them enough to live securely and comfortably in exchange, then your “business model” depends on poverty to continue.

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        So does Walmart.

        Minimum wage should pay enough to live a minimum life. It doesn’t. Not even close

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          Walmart is especially egregious because the SNAP benefits that subsidize their employees’ wages are often being used at Walmart. After all, if you need groceries why not pick them up at the store you work at after your shift?

          So not only do they not pay their workers enough by letting taxpayers subsidize wages, some of that taxpayer subsidy goes right into their pockets.

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        Oh, I just realized what needs to be done. You know how many states come after the families of people who died on Medicaid to get the money back, seizing inheritance and assets? How about instead of that, they start charging businesses for employees being on government assistance? Just straight fine them for every employee who has to be on food stamps, cash assistance, or Medicaid. Idk, 10k/employee/year sounds about right. Then paying them all +9k/year becomes the cheaper option.

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        Sort of funny that a food company doesn’t pay you enough to buy food so tells you to buy food stamps…

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        This is basically a subsidy for McDonalds. If the only way a company can be rich is by subsidies, maybe it shouldn’t exist in the “free market”.

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      This is exactly the thing.

      If a business cannot afford to pay its employees a living wage, that business is insolvent. What we have currently are a bunch of insolvent businesses that think they aren’t insolvent because they’ve been allowed to pay poverty wages.

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        And they can buy a decent restaurant meal for around $3. I’m not sure what you think your point is here.

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        I don‘t know what the going rate for registered nurses in the US is - but you probably will at least get 20$…

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          I want to say the going rate is around $40/hour for registered nurses but I’m sure it varies depending on city/state in the US.

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            It’s super variable. Travel nurses in OB at my hospital were making $225 an hour. This was in rural CA where the average nurse made low $100k a year though. Some in red states are still in the $50k range though.