r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • 5d ago

1980 Minimum Wage vs 2024 College Graduate Wait a damn minute!

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u/C6Centenial 5d ago edited 4d ago

We need to raise the minimum wage and prohibit corporations from owning private homes.

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u/MoParNoCaR23 4d ago

Companies just raise prices to cancel out the increase. nobody wins.

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u/PaulblankPF 4d ago

Need a limit put on how much prices are allowed to increase in a year like how a lot of states have rent hike limits and put it so that number can never outpace however much wages go up so that it never inverts like it has these days. It’s not that hard to come up with a way for that to work and this took me one minute with no pre-thought.

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u/ADFormer 4d ago

I always thought there should be a ceiling of like "something can't cost more than x10 what it cost to produce" or something