• capital@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You get that a lot on Lemmy in regards to these topics.

      They really don’t like it when you compare them to conservatives denying covid.

      Anecdotal evidence is trash except when it’s their anecdotes. Then it’s second to none.

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      3 months ago

      On wages, exactly.

      A small percent of a poverty wage is objectively worth criticism, if we’re putting it nicely. If we want to talk in percentages, you’d need a 400% increase on the minimum wage in Mississippi to get to a living wage.

      That’s why I’m criticizing this reply.

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        Sorry but I’m criticizing your initial reply to the fact that wage increases are statistically high. Yes, 70 cents raise is a lot for a grocery worker. And it’s especially important, as OP said, when compared to the rest of the world US is rising faster.

        The “2/3 of states” reply, while factual, was misleading as well as tangential to the original point you were replying to.

        Idealism has an important place, but not when it results in pure cynicism

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      He’ll keep using those of us who actually worked minimum wage jobs as a cudgel to fight on the internet because of how it ~ feels ~. You can count on it.

      He also doesn’t know what the federal minimum wage is apparently and thinks “more than double” is somehow $14. Strong math skills on that one.

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        And you will keep being a pedant about it and just ignore that those extra pennies, just like the 5.1% referenced earlier in the thread, don’t add up to anything when you’re not being paid a living wage to begin with.

        What I don’t understand is why you’re angrier with me than you are at Democrats and Republicans.