informative-feminist:

lesbuchanan:

Me: Minimum wage jobs are essential jobs

My dad: That’s not true

Me: If nobody worked those minimum wage jobs we’d have no supermarkets or restaurants, no factories, and everything would be filthy because nobody would be cleaning it

My dad: Then somebody else would do those jobs

Me: So you’re saying those jobs need to be done? So they’re essential jobs?

My dad: They’re not essential

Me: 

Lol I had this same conversation with my dad. He was like “they can be done by high schoolers” – like why??? Why not employ people who need to make an income and pay them a living wage? Also my dad seems to think that high schoolers should be paid less than minimum wage because “they don’t need it”

Like okay if we’re gonna create a need-based salary system, then I sure do have some news for you…