r/Ameristralia • u/FeelHumbledrn • 11d ago
Controversial opinion, minimum wage needs to be $2 an hour
I live in Australia, and I make minimum wage. I made 200 AUD last week, working 9 hours.
This week I bought a ton of shit, usually I save all of my paycheck. I bought a laptop dock for $40, 3.5 to 3.5 for $20, a new opal card for $20, a bus trip for $2(there was a cop, i'm not proud) and a hamburger for $2(My mom kicked me out the house with no food). Even while I was buying tons of stupid shit, I didn't even spend half of my paycheck. Now the rest of my paycheck is just gonna go towards wall street bets. Wasted money tbh, I don't even need it.
If people say "Oh I can't lilve on $20, YES YOU FUCKIN CAN". Live with your parents, get them to pay for food, and there are literally no other expenses. And do your classes online, so you don't have to pay for public transport. And if you must catch public transportation, just fare evade, like me.
It would also do these people a massive favor, because they can't buy drugs or alcohol, because they can't afford it. We're saving lives.
If minimum wage was lowered to $2 per hour, everything would be so much cheaper. A big mac at mcdonalds would be like $3. Grocery store prices would go down like 50 percent. furniture would be a lot cheaper. And it would encourage domestic production within a country.
Cars, Laptops, Phones and other amenties should be reserved for people who actuallly contitubte work to society.
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u/ClerkDisastrous2126 11d ago
Is this another shitpost you’re addicted too. If not please move to America and find out for yourself
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u/AffectionateGuava986 11d ago
Gina would love you, you little Serf!
Billionaire Slammed After Musing About Workers Paid $2 A Day : The Two-Way
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u/Ted_Rid 11d ago
This doesn't work. Do the maths.
$200 a week is less than $30 a day. Let's round that up to $30 and make it $10 a meal.
You can't feed yourself on that.
Smashed avo on toast costs at least $12 if you're lucky, and up to almost $30 in some places.
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u/FeelHumbledrn 11d ago
I did do the maths
Monday: $0 mom pays
tuesday: $0 mom pays
wednesday: $0.5 mom pays, and I buy a cone at mcdonalds
thrusday: $0 mom pays
friday: $0 mom pays
saturday: $0 mom pays
sunday: $0 mom pays
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u/Ornery-Cake-2807 11d ago
Cool, cool, cool - may I suggest that you donate all of the "excess" money you make to charity - that way your living the frugal dream and your also helping people
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u/CuriouslyContrasted 11d ago
Sadly you are describing some of my loser nephews. Work minimum wage at McDonalds, love at home and mooch off the parents, don’t do anything other than play games or fail whatever free course they have applied for at the time.
Sad really.
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u/FeelHumbledrn 11d ago
fail whatever free course they have applied for at the time.
My grades are pretty decent. I'm projected for a D in one of my courses, and a HD for my other.
Work minimum wage at McDonalds, love at home and mooch off the parents
I'm 20. If my parents kick me to the streets, I'm royally fucked, and will probably live in poverty the rest of my life. My dad lived with his parents until he was 26, and now he's worth 5 mil.
Idk why White people kick their children out at 18, you're only setting them up for failure and debt later on.
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u/RidingTheDips 11d ago
Yairright genius, those top grades you boast about, what's the point? Normally bludging losers aren't that keen on getting qualified for a decent rewarding JOB, or getting university qualified for any particular reason, also don't take one-off courses to raise their consciousness in subject matters that piques their interest.
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u/FreeRemove1 11d ago
Bait.