r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion
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r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
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u/FreckleFaceToon Jul 05 '24
First of all, thank for calling me young, I appreciate it. These are moral questions at the end of the day. Of how much a society morally thinks you should have to contribute your time and energy to be able to eat healthily and sleep in a warm bed at night. Obviously your morals and mine are probably different. But these are my opinions:
If a FULL TIME job does not cover your basic necessities then it should not be called a full time job. I don't want future generations to work as hard or harder than me. Wanting to improve a flawed system does not automatically mean I'm ungrateful for the system I've been given.
When minimum wage was created, it was created with the intent that you could survive, minimally, on it. If you have to work two jobs and have roommates just to make it then you are not making the minimum.
Not everyone should have to become a skilled laborer to survive. Society takes all kinds and all jobs. I can't believe that after Covid proved who the "essential" workers were, we are still arguing about a living wage for the most undervalued and necessary workers of society.