I wonder how all those “I’m don’t mind paying extra for gas to hurt Russia” people doing.
Fine because they don’t represent the working class.
They’ve been strangely silent these last few weeks.
Maybe frozen?
California minimum wage is $15. But if you burn 4 gallons of gas every day commuting to and from work that’s still 2 hours a day wasted on gas. Then rent for your one bedroom apartment is $1800 so that’s another 30 hours a week, 40 hours a week after tax is taken out. Then did you want to eat? That’s another 15 hours a week…
I don’t know who makes minimum wage in CA, but they are already so poverty stricken they might as well just not work at all. Minimum wage hasn’t been survivable in more than a decade here.
You definitely can’t afford a car at all on minimum wage.
And used ones are just as expensive as new ones now for some godforsaken reason. I’m not loaded by any means, but I make a lot more than minimum wage. And I still can’t afford a car.
The obvious solution is to raise the minimum wage to a livable one and include an annual cost of living adjustment.
We are about 2 generations past that being a viable fix. Minimum wage could never be set to a livable one because food and housing are so overinflated. You would have to implode the entire economy. The only way to fix the mess we are in is to transfer the wealth back from where it was originally stolen. Since that’s not on the table the only thing left is to overthrow the government. Just facts.
Get rid of the landlords and cap rent at 10% of after tax income.
but but the experts on the telly say that the Chinese economy is a bubble, not the Californian one! /s
Amen to this.
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Both you and the one you are replying to may have a point.
Bruh US is still in much better shape overall we are fucking dying here 💀
Europe? Update us please 🥺
At the very least Europe has better public transport networks, but of course, gas prices hit everyone at some point.
2 dollars a liter gas 😐
How much of the workforce in California is on minimum wage?
Apparently 30% at the time the current minimum wage laws were passed. Sad really.
Bloody hell
The free world of the democracy-loving West must send strong, modern weapons to liberate southern Ukraine. Very powerful missiles, very powerful bombs, cannons that shoot very far. missiles sinking warships. Glory to the west, glory to the democracies.
consumer credit, unfortunately
Shout-out to !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
Damn you, Putin’s Price Hike©
This is not a problem if you have good public transportation.
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Is it any wonder why people are leaving California?
Just saw gas for literally $6/gal in Florida. A Florida resident with an F250 is paying far more every week for gas than someone in California with a Corolla.
