• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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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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      3 months ago

      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