Quote from Max E. Pad:
Minimum wage will never keep up with inflation, thats the point, inflation crushes the little guy, and the middle guy. There is no way that minimum wage will ever keep up with the cost of a barrel of oil for example. In 1998 a barrell of oil was 12 dollars, and minimum wage was about 6 dollars.
Do you really think that when oil goes from 12 to 100, (an 8 multiplier) that minimum wage is going to follow and go from 6 to 48 dollars an hour?
Wages never keep up with inflation, because businesses dont even keep up with inflation, inflation crushs everyone.
There is a GIGANTIC ANCHOR hanging on workers, called china, and we have a long damn way to go before we can match the wages which they have in China, So minimum wage will never go up, until we have matched the 1 dollar per day wages in china.
That is just unrealistic.
Do take some consolation in the fact that Chinese wages are rising.
