Seattle is a very expensive city to live in, the real estate here is doubled in comparison to surrounding areas. In fact, everything is more expensive here regarding cost of living such as rent, gas, parking, etc. Basically, if you aint got a very good job working for a good company, you are screwed and living day by day -- just to live in the city of Seattle. This leads to desperation and crimes and many different kinds of hardships for most people here. There is a huge income gap here and just walking in the streets here, you will see that in an instant. It affects all kinds of people, not just minorities. 90 percent of the White folks here are struggling. They have education, they abide the law, they don't cause any problems here but they still struggle cause there's just not enough high paying jobs that covers all the expenses. 15 an hour barely covers it, but it does. This wage is barely enough to pay the 1200 bucks for an average apartment, 150 per month for the monthly parking, and 4.00 dollars for the gallon of gas. 9 an hour just not gonna cut it.
15 dollar an hour for flipping burgers is a joke though. This shouldn't even be a part of it. Burger flipping is a fucking joke and should be shot down with lasers. These types of losers obviously would benefit the most out of this deal. The problem though, is that other jobs are paying minimum wage as well that requires more than flipping burgers. Labors jobs for example. Technical jobs, computers jobs, any other jobs out there and makes under 15 an hour is being made an issue. These jobs are paying 12.00 usually depending in factors like how rich the company so forth. The burger flipping thing just happens to be a small argument and doesn't highlight the overall situation.
Its a great plan, obviously some people benefit from it more than others, especially the burger flippers. Truth is, a lot of jobs that are very demanding are being paid less than 15 an hour and that's the real issue. Most of these jobs are entry level and encompassed a wide range of industries.
With 10 dollars in my pocket, I can go inside the gas station next to my apartment and with that, I can buy a a bag of chips, one candy bar, and a standard bottle of coke. I would have like a quarter left, if Im lucky.
I"m all for the 15 dollars in hour if you lived in this area but south seattle, you don't need 15 an hour to survive, you can literally survive off a 300 welfare check and 100 foodstamps, I guess I don't know for sure. but there are a lot of poor asian folks in South seattle and West Seattle and things are relatively cheaper there. The parking is FREE, the gas is about 50 cents cheaper, the rent is a few hundred dollars cheaper and property value is half the price. If you make 15 an hour living there, you are doing very well
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Just don't get shot or robbed walking down the street, don't mean mug no one, and keep to yourself and stay alert of your surroundings lol.
