Malcolm Kenyatta Confronts Minimum Wage Opposers
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2021
- MINIMUM WAGE DEBATE: This PA state rep confronted a conservative policy analyst for her ‘deeply disrespectful and disparaging comments’ about those making minimum wage.
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Rich people telling poor people we don't need a living wage, unbelievable
Can you cite any evidence what so ever that increasing the minimum wage has ever led to an increase of overall wages?
@@dustincaso6781 Australia
@@dustincaso6781 I'm not sure I understand the point of your question to Azaela. There isn't an overall wage issue. There's a minimum wage issue, because people working 40hrs a week at the federal minimum wage can barely afford to pay for a place to live, pay their bills, and feed themselves. Minimum wage workers are not all highschool kids living at home. The majority of them are adults, who support themselves entirely.
@@mjm1955 what percentage of Americans are working at the current minimum wage and how long on average do they remain at the wage in their careers? The issue is a lot of those people currently making the minimum wage today will end up making what the actual minimum wage has always been if it’s increased to $15, and that’s zero. Over 1 million jobs will be loss according to a bipartisan report from congress if there’s an increase to $15. There’s nothing wrong with unskilled high school kids making a lot less than what a skilled colleges grad or trade school grad makes.
@@unsoundfoxly that has not led to an overall increase in wages.
People are starving and Mr. Chairman is calling for him to be polite GTFOH
Not calling, interrupting him. I did not see any impoliteness in his line of questioning
@@Danilium Nor did we ever get any viable answers from her other than repetitious rephrasing.
If I am starving TO DEATH, I will be impolite to the point of violence to save my own life. We're headed toward a bad period if so many of us are that disconnected.
@@muddro420 that’s true, I feel you on that. Stay strong buddy.
The time for being polite about this ended a long time ago. It's time to get with the times and raise the minimum wage. Too many people are living either in or near poverty.
Chairman: „please don’t talk over People and be polite.“
Also chairman: talks over others immediately after.
*talks over people to tell them not to talk over people*
@@joewwilliams talks over people to tell them not to talk over people who are saying very foolish and absurd things*
Fixating on normal happenings is for the weak minded.
@@romancultist6089 your brain must be huge
@@samarenson1027
Sarcastic complements... Never grew past high school maturity levels, eh?
She is smiling while saying that everyday workers are paid way too much for the sake of the economy. These are the same people that are telling you that public healthcare is comunism. I really feel sorry for the US.
Imagine lcorporations paying money to politicians and calling it lobbying instead of bribery
it is. and also minimum wage stagnates the economy
@@danaililiev1404 No! No to all of that.
@@danaililiev1404 on the contrary.
It increases spending.
@@danaililiev1404 if you have studied economics you have never said that.Most people that say those things have never studied it.Minimum wage should and must be automatically change according to the inflation
The topic was wages. Please remove the chairman from office as soon as possible Pennsylvania citizens.
POV: Pennsylvania turns 100% blue because Carrie said to remove the chairman
@@hfjiswnation4338 (good end)
What is the chairman's name?
Actually the topic was *minimum* wages. She should have answered "the full value of what my labor services are worth - just like every other worker". Her point that setting a higher minimum wage only means that some workers will only make $0.00 is still entirely valid.
@@FletchforFreedom Most work is seriously undervalued. The primary function of money is to assign worth based on societal priorities rather than intrinsic value. And if someone is doing actual work for $0 that's called slavery.
Them trying to silence him when he is fighting for the silent minority should be a red flag for everyone to look at whose interests they have, the common people or the 1%
"minority?"
Minimum wage workers are the _majority_
Why else do you think black men are actively kept out of positions power?
@@balerikirmu.11 enlighten us.
@@neldawg593 who have fought and died for civil rights?
Uhhh you mean the majority, right? This isn't a race issue at all. This is a class issue. See more than skin color, bro.
4:31 This (chairman) is an example of a hypocrite who talks about being polite and courteous while being rude, uncourteous, disrespectful, and while constantly interrupting simply because he has a bias and disagrees.
Also just the general hypocrisy of "politely" denying living wages to millions of americans
To be fair the guy had a mallet, he was clearly primary chair.
I get paid $12 an hour as a college graduate.
Is that good? I don't use dollar
Yo protomario!
@@fanyamvs9601 In America it's not. In some countries it's pretty good. America is too expensive.
@@user-hv4et7dq2j yeah... in my country 1USD is worth 4 times my currency and the living cost here is significantly less here...
12USD = MYR50 which is enough for 2 day's grocery
So basically, the average low wage workers in America is the same as midlle wage workers in my country, if that make sense
I make $21 an hour and not a college grad. Plus im a hispanic women(if that matters) And I still figured out how to start my own business. So i'm not so sure whats going on in your situation but I don't think it's an "america" problem I think it's an individual problem.
Mr. Kenyatta was very respectful. That chairman was scared too
The chairman told on himself and doesn't even know it.
I will say he did talk over her, but she was going off on a tangent and running out thr clock. 'reclaiming my time' is a good way to get them to shut up so you can make your point
@@funoff3207 she talked over him.
@@cariad123... Because he wasn't letting her finish. She started to answer and then he talked over. That's how it works
@@funoff3207 She was avoiding a yes or no question by rambling about something else. He talked over her to steer the conversation back so she can properly answer yes or no.
You don't answer a Yes or No question by answering it like its a multiple choice question like A, B, C, or D.
He was VERY polite for being patronized and condescended to the way he was. He deserves respect for being as polite as he was when he has every right not to be. He was the ONLY one representing the working class.
I mean, he wasn't rude per se, but he made no argument and only spoke nonsense.
I support a minimum wage, but the director of a foundation will make more than that minimum wage, and I accept that. It makes no sense to go 'does he make more than minimum wage?' and suggest that that is in some way hypocritical... That makes no sense. The discussion is not 'should every working person earn the same wage'. Talk about why lower wages aren't fair and make rational arguments that support that claim and have an honest discussion, don't stoop to nonsense like 'you make more money', that's completely irrelevant.
@@__Stitchy she said the less employees are paid the better for everyone. So I think his emphasis was that by that logic she must believe the CEO should take a pay cut as it is better for everyone. He was trying to lock her into admitting either she doesn't believe what she's saying or she criticises her boss which is why she started squirming and the chairman took back over.
@@punkaholia where did she say that?
If you can't get an employer to pay you 7.25 then you will be unemployed or employed at some amount lower than that until you can gain competence to earn more money. Virtually nobody makes the minimum wage to begin with but we have lots of unemployed people who could gain skills at a lower wage.
Being unemployed is a huge detriment to your health and you will have no real future
@@sandcastledx except companies will not raise your wage no matter the competence you gain. I know this because I have been through this. You can work how ever many years and know the ins and outs of the company but you'll still not get a wage increase and it is naive to think that you will.
And if you threaten to leave, they have no problem hiring someone else who will do the job for that amount of money.
@@sandcastledx your comment has no barring on reality. Around a million people make minimum wage or less and yes, that's around 1/325 of the population. That is a low number... so how many states go by the federal minimum wage? 3 out of 5 and so the state's with a large population have a higher state minimum wage. 1 in 325 turns into more like 1 in 80... That 40 times the number of people who died from covid in this country. Ig-nor-ance... so tell me, remember back in school when the teacher asked "what's 2+2?" Was, "well I'd say it's 17," an acceptable answer? In a courtroom, does ignorance of the law a valid excuse? No? Then I guess we've covered that ignorance is NEVER a viable excuse within our culture.
I resent how they say minimum wage jobs are occupied by “high school kids,” but I resent even more how they think high school kids don’t need disposable income.
Also, they do realize that these high school students also wanna save for college or an apartment right? Like, I thought that was the point of high schoolers wanting to work in the first place, why make it harder for em to be educated?
Given that the average high school student already makes more than $15/hr what's the problem? You proceed from to factually wrong assumptions - that workers - even high school students - have difficulty finding higher paying jobs and that minimum wage laws have ever either increased pay levels or prevented them from falling.
@@FletchforFreedom citation needed
How does minimum wage secure you a wage,
All the minimum wage means is its illegal for you to work unless you can convince an employer you’re atleast worth minimum wage
Just like how govt increases prices of ciggeretes so that there is less demand.
When you artificially increase price of labour you get less demand, therefore higher unemployment
@@JS-mc3ik "minimum wage leads to higher unemployment rates"
Me: *Laughs in europe*
😂😂😂
You can't just run a company with less workers, just cause you have to pay them more. If you could run that company with less workers the CEO's would've already cut those jobs. You're still talking about the US after all 😂😂
Chairman needs to recuse himself. He has a goal in this conversation and he needs to voluntarily step away or be replaced with someone who is neutral.
🙌🏽
Especially when the chairman is a republican.
I thought that was the point of having different people present at the questionnaire
She was vile. Her smile was nauseating. Many people with college degrees make minimum wage -- sometimes it's the only job you can get. Anyone who pays $7.25/hour for decent work is morally bankrupt.
So what if it is a small profit margin business?
@@gd1889 @G D Do you think a small profit margin business should be allowed to exist if using slave labor for people to work for them who aren't able to live anywhere but the street or buy food or not freeze, or can't buy a bed or clothes because of it? I don't. But I do wonder if maybe for a startup the government might help supplement some, but within certain perimeters. However, it's been proven paying a living wage only causes minor increases on business costs, and simulates the economy so even more people can support that business.
@@beebuzz959 Some businesses survive on thin margins, and raising the cost of labor will put them out of business. Then, instead of 7.25 an hour they will be earning nothing. Better to have someone employed at 7.25 even if they get some sort of welfare than unemployed and on welfare and contributing nothing.
@@johnathin0061892 yes, this people obviously skipped economics class. The unemployment for 18-22 year olds will increase drastically.
A college education doesn't guarantee you a job that pays thousands of dollars a year there are many college students who yes work multiple minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet that's a stupid argument it's no argument at all
He didnt like the questions because it proved a point. "You cant compare worthy people with peasants was the rebuttal."
But he's comparing a job almost anyone can do (like janitor or burger flipper) to a ceo? Doesent make sence. And he also thinks no minimum wage means people get payed 1$/h,which isn't true either. Mabye if he actually let the other people speak he would understand.
@@markojovanovski3372 She said the real minimum wage is $0. If an employer deems an employees worth as $0, whether or not the employee did a good job, then employers can pay their employees $0.
Rife for corruption and keeping power out of the hands of hard working folks. Multimillion dollar corporations can most certainly afford to pay their workers a livable wage, especially if the CEO makes more money in a year than a minimum wage worker would make in almost 20 years.
@@SDFRiver bro that's not why 0$mim wage means. It would still be illegal to pay someone 0$,you get in a contract before you're hired and that number doesent change unless you get a promotion or demotion. You're confused on this subject and making up stories to fit your narrative.
@@markojovanovski3372 if the minimum is 0, that means you can legally pay them 0. It's a very clear statement.
@@markojovanovski3372 "No minimum wage" means a 0$ minimum wage. If you're going to shill for corporations and billionaires, at least check your logic.
The chairman should be fired from his position.
Well done, kiddo. The future is bright. He looks like he’s no more than 25? 26? Unlike his colleagues, he’s got a spine.
Lol the market will bear what it will.
How is it bright? Do you not see how powerless he was in this meeting. This is corruption right in front of our eyes. The American Empire won't last forever.
@@mr.hamster6459 at least it’s better then those things outside usa
@@mvzv3913 is it though? The US is literally the world super power. We shouldn't allow the slightest bit of corrupt ion in this mighty system that literally effects the 🌎🌍 So much power only used to help the upper class
If he had a Spine he would want the Audits
She was absolute evil. The chairman was obviously biased. Sickening.
I’m not familiar with who he is or what he is the chairman over. His biases were brought front and forward here. If he’s a public official, I want him out.
Honestly he shouldn't have talked over her, bad move on both the front that the chairman who was already against him, and she should have the right to fair discourse (even as a snake oil salesman). Not listening to each other is how America ended up with an orange for president unfortunately. Irks me that she can think like that though >.
How is she evil???
@@peteryin8932 are you really asking how she’s evil? She just said that people shouldn’t make minimum wage, how would you feel if you made less money at your job than you do now? It’s difficult for people to make a living off of about $7 an hour, especially during Covid (some people don’t have jobs anymore or have their hours cut)
@@peteryin8932 Oh i don’t know, maybe it’s because she’s funded by billionaires to advocate policies with the sole benefactor being the 1% at the expense of 99% of Americans. You know, just that every American that actually works and makes this country function shouldn’t even have a minimum wage in her opinion. That’s why she’s evil. It really took 3 question marks btw?
so she just advocated for slavery? $0 an hour? really?
@Joseph Arden Reeducation.
My thought exactly.
It's not slavery. It's called government not intervening in an agreement between the employer and employee.
@@applenoo1015 Your point is so excellent. The government should absolUTELY not get in between ANY agreements between workers and employers. Because regulations to protect the people are useless and WRONG. PUT CHILDREN BACK IN THE WORKFORCE! Child labor! No minimum wage! Because I'm a republican and I think that's unconstitutional for the government to use regulation to protect ANYBODY! (Except me, of course.)
...do you hear how ridiculous you sound?
@@Stanzafly 👏 👏 👏
I like kenyatta. There should be more politicians like him.
And less chairmans like ones we saw in this video
Get another job if you don't wanna work that amount. There's competition competing for your labor.
Demanding higher wages (if they actually pay it and don't go through _glaring loopholes_ in the law) will lead to *negative pressure* on employment, prices, productivity, working conditions, and/or benefits to make up the higher cost of labor. All of which disproportionately hurt those of lower skill/capability.
Employers get around most of the cost imposed through cutting paid hours, then practically requiring 'volunteer' unpaid hours. This comes at a net neutral in actual wages paid. Time is money. If I have to pay you more over a shorter period of time, then there's more risk in that investment of capital. Labor is then more risky and thereby disincentivized, even where the market otherwise demands it. This is only a slight detriment, but it's a net negative nonetheless. You work tge same amount, get paid tge same amount, but just at different time intervals.
The minimum doesn't help anyone. Like all price controls, it either leads to people getting around the law, shortages, worse quality products/services (in this case employment), and/or higher costs.
*Abolish the minimum!*
@@austinbyrd4164 Saying higher wages hurts the poor might be the most out of touch thing you can say
@Thomas Jensen 'higher wages' doesn't. Mandates do. As I explained in detail.
@@thomasjensen5042 hey man I get what you are saying but simply put the minimum wage doesn’t fix poverty. It takes away the middle class creating an even further divide. Think about it your grocery store, your shopping centres pay minimum wage. When you increase it the business aren’t going to take a loss they increase the products price. Doctors lawyers all high paying jobs have contracts that increase with inflation/ cost of living on top of yearly negotiations for raises. But the more middle class jobs construction workers don’t. So while all the prices go up those jobs lag behind for years suffering. Increasing minimum wage increases the divide between classes the oh they won’t hire you is nonsense they just turn around and charge more
If you want to fix poverty in the us look into the taxes and tariffs a much more complex topic but the only real solution increasing minimum wage is just good politics it isn’t good government
Of course there are exceptions but the root issue is never the minimum wage
She doesn’t think there should be a minimum wage but admits to benefiting from it.
when
Also, so?? I benefit from many things that i don’t support, nothing wrong with that lol
Get another job if you don't wanna work that amount. There's competition competing for your labor.
Demanding higher wages (if they actually pay it and don't go through _glaring loopholes_ in the law) will lead to *negative pressure* on employment, prices, productivity, working conditions, and/or benefits to make up the higher cost of labor. All of which disproportionately hurt those of lower skill/capability.
Employers get around most of the cost imposed through cutting paid hours, then practically requiring 'volunteer' unpaid hours. This comes at a net neutral in actual wages paid. Time is money. If I have to pay you more over a shorter period of time, then there's more risk in that investment of capital. Labor is then more risky and thereby disincentivized, even where the market otherwise demands it. This is only a slight detriment, but it's a net negative nonetheless. You work the same amount, get paid the same amount, but just at different time intervals.
The minimum doesn't help anyone. Like all price controls, it either leads to people getting around the law, shortages, worse quality products/services (in this case employment), and/or higher costs.
*Abolish the minimum!*
@@lukazupie7220 Now I'm curious what things that you don't support and make benefit on it.
@@austinbyrd4164 u have never had a job
Him making that point is so good and the guy interrupting him telling him to ask her nice questions is ridiculous he should be ashamed of himself
Who is the chairman
@@antonvernooy6186 yeah, the chairman doesn't seem to like the new minimum wage
@@antonvernooy6186 lmao I want to organize a protest against him of disapproval for what he said and did... He is full of privilege and disgusting disregard...
People like this chairman are paid not to have any shame.
its such a bad point. He is litteraly contradicting what se is saying. She says the should be no minimum wage and that companies should be able to decide their wages and then says that the boss should make 15 k a year. He makes no sense
Typical that she didn't have to disclose her salary and that the GOP chair prevented her from saying so.
@0penminded how them boots taste
@0penminded because she's arguing that there should be any minimum wage and that 7.25 is too much. Do you honestly think she works that much harder than to be making 3, 4 ,5 or maybe even 6 times of what the earner of a 7.25 minimum wage is? That's the ridiculous part. People think other people don't deserve something because they don't think they deserve it. It's that kind of thinking that kept black people enslaved. It's the kind of thinking that keeps modern day poor people enslaved to poverty. Enslaved to debt. Enslaved to food insecurity. It's called oppression. Just because you dint believe it doesn't mean it's real. Just because you think it's ridiculous I'm using these comparisons doesn't mean they are not apt at telling the whole picture. The really weird part is that the people who oppose these hikes in terms of regular people are the ones who are already earning around the new proposed minimum. They are so against it because they can't get off their high horse and accept that someone they feel that has a lesser job than them is going to be making the same amount of money. It's not about economics with them it's about their stupid pride. And it's not about economics with the rich and big companies it's about squeezing every dollar out of their workers. Majority of economists have said raising the minimum will have mostly positive effects in the economy. The only problem is inflation. But not the way all the right wing media and pundits try to picture it. It'll probably just end up being something like and extra 10 cents to a burger at a restaurant. Right wing media has been saying that it would destroy the economy. But in the last 30 years they have been constantly saying that increases federal and locally will destroy economies and cause high inflation. But look they have been wrong every single time. So what's the real reasoning for opposing this? For regular people it's them believing that people don't deserve it and for the rich it's them trying to squeeze every last penny out of the people who work for them.
@0penminded it should be disclosed. if youre saying $15/hr is rich, are you living off $15/hr?
Garbage politicians should be making a fixed salary, then they’ll remember they’re not special.
@0penminded so in my state, teachers, gov workers salaries, and librarian salaries are all public record so why shouldn't she be allowed to disclose how much she makes when she's fighting against an increase in the minimum wage, yet makes significantly more.
Oh my gosh, “minimum wage workers are high school students”... oh I guess we are not counting the single parents, immigrants, veterans, aspiring artists, and debt-laden college graduates and current college students.
Or just people that are happy to work simple jobs and not dedicate their lives to "climbing the ladder". There's no reason a person shouldn't be able to live a comfortable life working ANY full-time job. There's no reason somebody's right to live should be conditional on them striving for higher positions.
that all lost their jobs when gov started raising min wage
Hmmm lets seee..
Single parents - Being a parent is a choice, there are plenty who waited till they were more financially stable before they became parents.
Immigrants - There are countless stories of Immigrants working hard and moving beyond minimum wage and many realize that most of the jobs that pay minimum wage are entry level positions and not something one should strive to remain in.
Veterans - I am one and so far most companies I applied for offered me well above the minimum wage, even jobs I have no direct skills for.
Aspiring artists - lol where should I start on this....Just because you want to be something, doesn't mean people should be forced to pay you for it. There is a reason why not all artists make it big. Either you have the talent for it or you dont. The internet has given a lot of aspiring artists ample opportunity to find their niche and many are thriving. Just because you are an aspiring artists, doesn't mean you should get paid to loaf around and not make the work necessary that others have done to get where they are today. I could be an "aspiring writer" but that doesn't mean a book company should pay me a wage so I can sit around at home and not write books that do not sell.
Debt-Laden College grad/Current college grad - Going to lump these two into the same boat. College is a choice and what you study in college is also a choice. If you choose a degree that is oversaturated or one that doesnt pay well then perhaps a different path is in order. There are plenty of jobs out there that companies are willing to PAY their employees to go learn the trade-skill necessary to perform them.
Opportunities are out there, you just have to be willing to work for it or willing to go outside your comfort zone to find it. We all cant have our dream job right out the gate.
@@albundy3929 yes let's put it all on the consumer, not the company. If we COULD stop buying things from companies that do this we would, that is one of the reasons we can't. Why? Because we get paid just enough to buy the cheap stuff that is made by doing this.
Maybe if we first make sure we give people the means to make a choice, we could actually see that choice play out.
@@AD-1138 this is literally the premise of the movie ideocracy. Smart people who were well off made good choices, stupid people didn't., so they overtook the population as they continued to reproduce and thereby the future was nothing but idiots because humans have no natural predictors to weed out the weak and stupid lol. (and too many safeguards in place to protect them) until they outnumbered the smart people lol.
Like seriously do people forget the minimum wage jobs are the most important? No gas, no road matinance, no home construction, no food suppliers. Yeah, they're all disposable... Sure
mmmm pretty sure most of these arent minimum wage. you hage a very demeanibg view of the trades
Im not from USA and even i know construction workers are not on min wage.. and so are not the people who extract oil, maybe those who fill up your car, but those are really not important, we fill it ourselves in other countries..
Also, it doesn’t really matter how important your job is, but how many people can do it, how hard it is, how much people are ready to pay for it, etc..
I know i pay construction workers twice the min wage and more, there is demand, hard work and people don’t wanna do it. Free market provides solid wages for them. It works beautifully.
@@lukazupie7220 The free market is a lie only believed to be good by those in positions of privilege and/or under a veil of ignorance. It is an excuse to think we are better than our fellow humans because the number next to our name at the bank is higher.
@@user-vl5qg5rf4n You obviously don't understand what a free market is then. I would argue that the free market is the only way to create economic mobility in any society. How much of a free market you have will determine mobility. The more power and control the goverment has taken away from citizens in the US, the worse economic mobility has gotten. Higher minumum wages accelerate inflation, which means you have to spend more of your pay for the same things, and there is no guarantee your pay will increase. Human beings are not a hive mind and cannot operate like one. With no incentive to work the individual will not do so. In the US this has manifested in the egregious welfare state and unionization hurting the economic mobility of many individuals, and hurting competition and innovation.
@@legoboy-ox2kx Capitalism isn't the only economic system, it's just the one we all happen to use. What you mean to say is with no incentive to work YOU won't work, but i'm not even talking about having NO incentive to work, just that certain things shouldn't have to be worked for. Like food, and protection, and livable shelter, and entertainment and recreation (all within reason, I don't think we all can live like Jeff Bezos doing nothing all day and going to space as a hobby). People like you who usually self stylize as some sort of libertarian or anarcho-capitalist after talking about free markets being the end all be all to human existence forget that fact that the phrase "the freer the market the freer the people" ends with "... the freer the people are to be oppressed by greedy corporations and other individuals"
"We find that slavery is much more beneficial to our profits than paying people fairly to survive"
@@oldpersonalaccount and become homeless person
@@oldpersonalaccount and be homeless, genius
@@oldpersonalaccount is it really an option when reality pretty much pushes you to it so you don't die? Please
Raise minimum wage, become unemployed and be homeless anyway. 0 is the true minimum wage, at anywhere at anytime...
I mean it’s not a new concept in the US
They think “minimum wage” means you have to be a high schooler working at a fast food restaurant. Just shows how out of touch they are with the common working citizen.
There are HS students who contribute to the support of their families. There are many high school students who are saving for college. Not all but many.
I was like "this is 2021, not the 1960s."
@@dubiousseed3272 exactly. The rhetoric hasn't changed since then. But it's hardly the same environment as the 1950s. That's the only argument they have. But what they really mean, is that the lower class shouldn't be compensated fairly. It's basically the same as the king of England taxing the commonwealth into oblivion to keep them poor and desperate. Employers want desperate employees.
@@cartman55655 not necessarily
@@cartman55655 If you give your day to an employer, they should give you a living wage. Not this 15,000 a year b.s.
The irony of the anti-minimum wage foundation being called "common wealth" xD
Given that minimum wage laws are proven to be entirely harmful to workers, the pretense that MW advocates are "pro-worker" is even more laughable.
@@FletchforFreedom How exactly are they harmful to workers? Can you give any source to that? Because an increase to minimum wage has been proven to boost an economy, and generally create more jobs due to more people spending money.
@@devhenryofficial mate, don't take the troll bait.
In pa we call it the Common poverty.
@@projectrenaissanceman5035 so you can quote a book. We asked for examples. Not the ramblings of a single person in a book. It's the same old straw man of examples that has literally never planned out and been debunked by history repeatedly.
"Do you think the minimum wage should be in place?"
"Mr Kenyatta, please keep it on topic to the topic of minimum wage"
“How much money do you make a year” - A rude question that people prefer not to answer to avoid being exploited and targeted by thieves and robbers.
“Let’s keep this on the topic of minimum wages.” - A fair response to an extremely rude question
I love how the Chairman and the testifier were talking over him and interrupting, but they accuse him of interrupting etc..
2:30 disproves your point.
@@paulp.l.4869 2:38 proves that your point isn’t an argument made in good faith. What, he spent five seconds uninterrupted and that means he was never interrupted? For your sake, I really hope you didn’t actually believe what you said in your comment. Lol
@@paulp.l.4869... Um... Did you mean 2:23?
My poor guy, If you're gonna use timestamps for your argument, you should at least write them right
Exactly
@@paulp.l.4869 You didn't pass the stupidity filter
Its almost like they dont realize that people with degrees are coming out of college and cant find a job immediately . So they are working minimum wage jobs to pay bills...
High school kids are not being hired for fast food... it's single Mom's, or mom's in general and college kids. :(
They realize, they just don’t care.
@@amberleebatchelor6949 Right. Who do they think runs those restaurants during the day?
It is clear that in their minds, those who handle their food and work the frontline jobs are not deserving of even the basic neccessities in life.
Nobody is coming out of college with a meaningful degree and not getting a job lol
The moment she smiles and her pretty face twists into something akin to a greedy goblinoid, jeez, not even Bilbo's transformation scared me that much.
Pretty is stretching it too much..
It's called the happy merchant
None of the bourgeoise are human, but sick and greedy creatures much like her
How does someone "bring something to the table" if they cant make enough money on minimum wage to even go to collage?
That's the answer. Less intellectual=less competition
How about work hard and gain experience? It isn't magic. More than a third of workers have no college at all and yet, somehow 99.85% of the US civilian labor force has managed to make more than the federal minimum.
@@FletchforFreedom And how are you going to make the experience and survive at the same time while you are payed 0$ per month, since you don't bring anything to the table since you need to learn first. I'm not from Merica but if you don't see anything wrong with that.. there is no hope for you. Imagine how many people will be abused because they just can't do better? You don't need college, but there are many people from very poor backgrounds or even with very low IQ or disabilities who will be just left out to rot on 1$ and they will take the 1$ just because they can't get better.
@@WaCzup The main thing that I see that is "wrong with that" is that it is purely delusional. Setting the minimum wage at $0 (that is, eliminating it) will have no effect whatsoever on current pay levels as minimum wage have never either raised pay levels or prevented them from falling. As 99.15% of the US civilian workforce already makes more than the federal minimum and the average high school student is already making more than $15/hr, the notion that anyone would be paid $0 (or some pittance) is monumentally stupid.
I am not responsible for you being economically illiterate and having no grasp of reality. It is literally impossible in the (abundantly evident) competitive market for labor to underpay workers so the chances that people would be "abused" are precisely zero. People with extreme low IQs or disabilities are already exempt from the legal minimum and either compete with everyone else in the normal market or are unemployable except by charitable organizations.
There is nothing more imbecilic than the pretense that workers would be paid $1/hr.
Since minimum wage laws have never been anything but harmful to workers, increasing unemployment and poverty, maybe your problem is that you lack sufficient moral standing to actually learn something about a topic before suggesting that there's "no hope" for someone working to protect workers and the poor from incompetent would-be do-gooders who would rather feel good about themselves than face the real damage done by their uninformed policies.
@@FletchforFreedom Imagine thinking that I'm "ng economically illiterate and having no grasp of reality", while you have no idea how many people are abused in your failed system. Oh well, to each their own :) Sad to see that, the higher class (which you clearly are) has no clue what the bellow them have to go through to survive. God bless Emerica I guess ;)
How was he acting inappropriate??
He’s the only one with common sense in that room
Also the only black guy. Coincidence? Lol
Minimum wage doesnt do anything. As the minimim wage goes up so does the cost if living. So people are often left in the same position of not worse. The money has to come from somewhere so the rich employers will either replace them with machines or the will raise the price of the goods to compensate. As the price of goods rises so does the cost of everything else. Raising minimum wage= inflation. The rich are never affected because they determine the prices. Its the poor and middleclass recieving the short end of the straw
@@kawaiihamsters6689 That's why the government is supposed to help the masses by increasing things like minimun wage, taxing the wealthy appropriately, and provide for the people. Cost of living always increases with one exception, a complete collapse of economy. These ideas that minimum wage is the issue is ludicrous, minimum wage is one of the few things in America keeping it looking like it's a decent place. We should not have so many massive sectors of mass poverty in this nation. It's sad so many people think if we just keep letting the income disparity continue its going to slow down the inflation and cost of living increase.
@@twistedsista8661 in the end the rich decides how much the price of products cost. Look at canada raising the minimum wage caused the price of food to go up which in turn caused the price of housing to go up. Aka price of living goes up. The amount that people could buy with the salary of minimum wage is even less than before. I know becaused I've lived through it. Raising the mimum wage is an easy way for politicians to pretend to do good but in reality it does nothing.
@@kawaiihamsters6689 what do you propose as a solution if it's not raising wages ?
Made me wanna scream when they told him to be “polite.” He is showing remarkable self control.
its not polite to make people answer uncomfortable questions
@@creepystares9853 the premise of such talks is asking uncomfortable question. If everyone chose to be polite there would be no progress whatsoever
@@OneRichMofo obviously. I was sarcastically referring to the white council dude.
Eh, it wasn't the politest of questions. Pretty obvious where he was going with it. Doesn't mean we should always have to be completely polite, but I'm just saying.
@@noellerutledge8789 a lot of people would be filled with heat after hearing what the testifier said.. Malcom challenged her and asked question that Is relevant to the point that he’s trying to make.. their view of “polite” is not being challenged..
the audacity of her to be offended by being asked how much she makes when she believes others deserve nothing
Edit: yall in the responses, get some reading comprehension please.
the dude that asked is a millionare after only being in office for 3 years, with a 100k yearly salary btw.
@@bl0rgus and he cares more about livable wages for others than anyone in the meeting.
@@wrageout He means he's dirty... /woosh
@@giuseppe9501 rich people have more then one source of income. Side buisness, stocks, bonds, real estate etc.
@@zhangzongchang1057 Not the context. Sure, you're mostly correct. However, you forgot the part where he mentioned that the man became a millionaire in 3 years... from humble beginnings... While only having a job that pays 100k per year.
“Where you’re rewarded for what you bring to the table…” Complete bs in my opinion. Places where people work where you don’t need a grade for, like fast-food chains or cleaning businesses for example. Those people are just as needed in this society as all the CEO’s.
I disagree, they're far from equally important. If every CEO and every minimum wage worker disappeared tomorrow I'm sure we'd hardly notice that the CEOs were gone. They'd be replaced by the end of the week by the next ghoul in line while entire industries would crash as they frantically searched to replace the massive loss of laborers.
@@havcola6983 Which is why all 200k CEOs get paid $40B in aggregate per year and all 80 million hourly wage workers get paid $4.4 trillion in aggregate per year. Of course losing the two orders of magnitude more people and income would have a bigger effect.
@@havcola6983 😂
I'm afraid you're interpreting it wrong. Sure, if ALL of the minimum wage workers disappeared we would feel it much more than the CEOs, but that's because there are far more minimum wage workers than CEOs in number. All of the MW workers combined may bring "more to the table" than all the CEOs combined, but a single CEO brings so much more to the table than a single MW worker it's not even funny. The value you provide individually is what you get compensated for, not how hard you work or how much your overall group does.
@@WatermelOns53 minimum wage workers may not produce as much value as CEOs per capita, but they generate far more profits per year than the minimum wage they receive.
The chairman "please don't give this woman a hard time their foundation gives a lot of money to my political campaigns".
Edit: I wonder if the citizens of the US could start a voters Union. It would be the largest Union by far and likely have the power to negotiate reasonable voting laws with local governments. In fact with such a union the popular vote might actually matter.
Facts
Exactly.
Most definitely!
The chairman " this was supposed to be a controlled meeting with no actual constituents present so we could pretend the issue of minimun wage was discussed. Mr Kenyatta, you are ruining my private deals with this foundation".
Yup. There’s a ruling class in this country comprised of people who make significant amounts of money. The rest of us, who the rep was asking questions for, are not part of it.
Chairman : "Don't talk over other people"
Also chairman : *is talking over someone*
Yall wtf
Also Kenyatta: Interrupts the speaker as soon as she says anything
I hate when large companies use small business company’s as a shield.
“Minimum wage” should be exclusive to small companies to help them grow and forbidden in large company’s that can afford the cost (like Amazon).
so companies just stop working after a certain poibt to save on cost
@@danaililiev1404 well depending on the numbers and the profit the company makes it could or couldn’t be beneficial to halt, like if you only pay your employee and extra 80k for the for a total of 100k of profits why would you want to stop, but you are partially correct
so every big company will create small companies to pay less.
@@albundy3929 Amazon's ceo is the world's richest man thanks to the company
So I think it's safe to assume amazon can afford to give its employees better wages
@@DannyJoseph yes
Kenyatta is exactly the type of representation PA needs. Good on him for standing up to the chairman and asking the hard questions.
If I could i would take him for MD.
Man, as a constituent of ga 14, I would kill for someone like him. Mrs. Greene is an embarrassment not only to my state but the country at large.
To be fair, on an objective level, he was being quite disrespectful here.
@@benjamink2398 how so when she should be up to the employer to pay workers what they want. You're okay with making 2 dollars ever 4 hours?
@@rainbowminion7048 I said nothing of the sort. His breaking of cross-examination protocol, rude tone, and invasive personal question were all disrespectful, on an objective level. Minimum wage is a complicated issue. Even if this woman donated her entire wealth to underpaid workers, each worker would only get a few cents. Her wealth doesn't matter. What matters is policy. He should have kept his questions in that realm, as is protocol here. And his tone was uncalled-for as well.
she is a lobbyist advocating on behalf of institutionalized poverty which is actually an entire billion dollar business market...from payday loans, overdraft fees even rent to own scams.
@0penminded Looks like we have ourselves a living contradiction here!
So, Democrats (actually, the left, let's be honest) want to raise the minimum wage and institute universal health care as a means of raising people out of poverty, yet you say these things are only "subsidizing" it. How, pray tell, do you think that poverty should be eliminated then?
Oh, let me guess... 0% corporate tax, 0% capital gains tax, and more tax evasion loopholes for the wealthy which would finally, finally, after 35+ years, bring to fruition the social revolution that is "trickle-down economics."
We would *love* to hear your thoughts on this.
@0penminded ...funny you say that considering social "welfare" is the only reason the u.s has ever had economic stability after the great depression ie. democratic president lyndon b johnson. funnier still considering the fact that republicans have countered prosperity with the downfall of u.s economics through corporate welfare with little objection. "trickle down" economics is slang for tricking the people imo.
@@Thunder-Chief ...ty for that logical rebuttal.
Rent to own isn’t a scam , you either can pay or you can’t, no one forced you into that option
@0penminded I think you meant to say republicans do this
The funniest part was that she was 100% accurate in her claim that the real minimum wage is $0 because you don't hire people that don't give you at least 7.26 an hour.
Wage is compensation for work, if you don't hire someone they don't produce work for you. If you paid someone $0 wage, it would mean they work for you i.e. you prevent them from getting something better while not paying them. Not hiring them gives them the opportunity to look somewhere else. She was 100% wrong and she was twisting facts to sound believable.
@@DarkAvador She is right. Zero is the LITERAL minimum, it doesn't mean employers WILL or SHOULD pay zero, she never said that.
@@TheLucasbr152 If the law says you can't pay less than this, it is the minimum. Anything else is illegal. And trust me, if employers can pay less they will pay less. Most companies pay a fraction above minimum because it looks bad when they actually pay minimum. Should the minimum go down, they will pay just a fraction above that because well: "It's not the bare minimum we need to do". Most companies just want to maximize profit and wages really cut into that.
@@DarkAvador No, the REAL minimum is still zero. The minimum wage law stablishes an artificial minimum, raising the costs of production and unemployment. If the employers would always pay less and less for their workers in order to profit more and more, why did the wages raise before the existence of minimum wage law?? It doesn't make sense, the existence of high wages before the promulgation of the law debunks you. In your logic, all wages should be miserable without a minimum wage law, but that's not seen on USA before the law, and neither today on countries without a minimum wage law.
@@DarkAvador "While they are often low-paid, entry-level
jobs are vitally important for young and low-
skill workers because they allow people to es-
tablish a track record, to learn skills, and to
advance over time to a better-paying job. Thus,
in trying to fix a perceived problem with mini-
mum wage laws, policymakers cause collateral
damage by reducing the number of entry-level
jobs. As Milton Friedman noted, “The mini-
mum wage law is most properly described
as a law saying employers must discriminate
against people who have low skills.”54
Seventy years of empirical research general-
ly finds that the higher the minimum wage in-
crease is relative to the competitive wage level,
the greater the loss in employment opportuni-
ties. A decision to increase the minimum wage
is not cost-free; someone has to pay for it, and
the research shows that low-skill youth pay for
it by losing their jobs, while consumers may
also pay for it with higher prices. Moreover, ev-
idence from a large number of academic stud-
ies shows that, even if there were no negative
employment or other affects, minimum wage
increases don’t reduce poverty levels. Only
11.3 percent of the workers who would gain
from a recent proposal to increase the mini-
mum wage to $9.50 an hour even live in poor
households.55
Some current proposals on Capitol Hill and
at the state level to raise minimum wages could
not come at a worse time. In June, the unem-
ployment rate for teenagers is 24.9 percent, and
this group’s employment rate is near its record
low of 25.4 percent. For minority youth the sit-
uation is even worse. The unemployment rate
for minority teenagers is 38.2 percent, and the
employment rate is just 15.5 percent.
In these tough economic conditions, em-
ployers are simply not going to hire workers
whose labor produces less than the cost of
hiring them. Employers will not pay $8.25 an
hour to hire a worker whose hourly efforts
bring in $7.25. A higher minimum wage will
price even more low-skilled individuals out of
a job. Although a small share of workers will
get a raise, others will lose opportunities for
employment. Minimum wages generally don’t
distribute income to workers from employers,
but to a small group of lucky workers from the
unlucky workers who lose jobs.
Rather than pursuing policies such as mini-
mum wage increases that create winners and los-
ers, policymakers should focus on policies that
generate faster economic growth to benefit all
workers. While minimum wages may be a well-
meaning attempt to help workers, economic re-
search clearly shows that somebody must pay the
price for any increase, and it is usually the least
skilled and least fortunate among us." - Mark Wilson, Negative effects of minimum wage.
"Let's be honest the real minimum wage is $0... at one point I worked at the minimum wage"
So you're saying you worked for $0 an hour before?
yea that is exactly what she said. great deduction sherlock
She meant that as in the employers are not obligated to hire just any applicant and that those deserving of the job must have the requirements to earn it
I have two degrees. Apparently I still don't bring enough to the table though, because I've never made anything but minimum wage. Good for Rep Kenyatta for standing up for people.
Degrees in what from where?
Minimum wage doesnt do anything. As the minimim wage goes up so does the cost if living. So people are often left in the same position of not worse. The money has to come from somewhere so the rich employers will either replace them with machines or the will raise the price of the goods to compensate. As the price of goods rises so does the cost of everything else. Raising minimum wage= inflation. The rich are never affected because they determine the prices. Its the poor and middleclass recieving the short end of the straw
What are your degrees? What is your work experience? Have you done any internships? Summer camp work? Did you build your cv out? A degree isn't a free pass, a degree is an opportunity to enter a competition for a better job.
@@kawaiihamsters6689 wrong. It has been proven multiple times that your assertions on min wage are wrong.
@@kawaiihamsters6689 I've heard that same speak for instance where I'm at in California I drove by local del Taco they're looking to pay workers to work the midnight shift $16 an hour so my question is in Texas where they also have del tacos what is the price of a taco there and the price of Taco in California is it three times as much twice as much roughly the same if it's roughly the same then where's that other money going to?
She says you're rewarded for what you bring to the table, but she brings harm and gets rewarded greatly.
You're rewarded for what you already have, which just helps to widen the gap between the ones that have too much and the millions that don't have enough.
She has clearly never truly worked for 7,25/h. If she had, she wouldn't be fighting against this.
Also, 15 dollars/hour in 6 years??? Should be 20/h in 3, tops!
@@misterdayne2792 the problem with people like her is that they may have made 7.25 an hour but have never lived off 7.25. The lack of sympathy is insane considering the plenty of resources that there is to make sure everyone gets a decent living
Absolutely!
Right!
The fact that a minimum wage is needed in the first place is insane, companies not wanting to pay their employees enough to survive is dumb. But can't entirely blame employers but schools to. Everyone gets out of high school with the grades in the same subjects. There needs to be different kinds of schools that educate people to find work instead of just preparing for university.
Minimum wage Is needed if workers unions don't have power.
Unionize pepole, unionize
Apprenticeships
Trade schools already exist.
it was “let them eat cake” and now it’s just “let them starve✨”
I'm a minimum wage worker against having a minimum wage, so it's not just a position that the overly wealthy advocate for.
@@vsaucepuppet697
No, of course not. You're proof, that the world is full of people, who will happily act against their own interest, for any number of reasons. This of course, also assumes, that you are in fact, a "minimum wage worker", and not just some dude, on the internet, misrepresenting themselves, confident in the knowledge that no one can verify such a claim anyway.
The chairman is clearly bias, interrupting every question the other guy was making.
*biased. Please learn how to use that word correctly.
@@smurphftw2008 sorry second language. Remember to be empathetic ;) or at least nice
@@df6573 You have nothing to apologize for. You made a grammatical error while making an excellent point and he did exactly what the chairman did in this video by detracting from the conversation to make the conversation about something else. Nice job learning another language.
@@smurphftw2008 go away lol
Keep on smiling, that doesn't hide you're a horrible person.
@0penminded +
Grow up give and the computer back to your mother. Stop Trolling. You're not intelligent enough to backup your misinformation.
Agreed. She should be ashamed of smiling while stating such cruel statements.
@0penminded raising the minimum wage will only increase prices buy a couple of cents, your statement is just wrong and not based in reality
@@HolyCross9 Its not cruel... please see the full testimony for details instead of the edited and selective clips shown here. There is an argument to be made against the minimum wage.
@@christiana5453 Depends on which industry you are talking about. With a weakened economy, any inflationary pressure is extremely dangerous for recovery. If everyone is making more then it is only natural for inflation to increase.
The fact that she's smiling screams privilege.
I just love how right-wingers like her try to paint the U.S. as a meritocracy. It's not. At all.
It is and isn't. Meritocracy is a lot more prevalent in America than it is in many other nations. I wouldn't even call him a right winger, more like a Lazze Fair Capitalist.
Rep Kenyatta did an amazing job here. I could never stay that calm and collected in the face of bs like that.
Seriously, it's so infuriating to even watch. Debating if everyday people deserve to just LIVE without having to worry about where their next meal is coming from. Stupid.
They are trying to shut him up.
Well, we see what side they're on. Kenyatta should never shut up about this.
@@marcus813 Absolutely 💯
@@marcus813 we all saw it. He made his point. Its on video so they can't act like they care later for reelection
*When you can eloquently defend your position in an argument, you become a deadly assassin* that virtually no one can stand up to without looking stupid. Case and point, this young man fighting for the benefit of those making an income below a threshold which affords dignity. I think he’s a really cool person for doing so 😊🙌📚
"Yeah, we think the minimum wage is harmful and an unnecessary policy."
I'm sure it's harmful to those couple of percentage points of profit margin for borderline slave-driving companies. Seriously, I'm surprised rich people say things like these and then feel safe at night.
Your work should determine your pay, if you want a better pay you need to have worth.
@@thehatedones5153 but he wants more money and doesn’t want to think about how it affects the economy as a whole. Can you understand that?
@@thehatedones5153 No company actually cares what you're worth. They'll pay whatever they can get away with, that's why minimum wage exists, so immoral employers can't drive down the lowest possible wage, which they will.
They shouldn't have the right to feel safe with their greediness. Rich people are the leeches suffocating the rest of the 99%. Something needs to change.
@@thehatedones5153 everyone deserves a wage to survive. Who are you to determine an individuals worth?
That chairman is in their pocket, it's pitifully clear.
Yup, if he invited that propagandist there in the first place, he's obviously got a bias. Yuk. Hope they vote him out.
Or he is in theirs... How dare that black man ask me how much I make... You better stop him from asking these questions as he did.
@@TTT-ph2jz literally what op said
@@blakepowers3507 what part... Stop the black man from asking questions???
@@TTT-ph2jz y'all are saying the same thing lmao 🤣
Go Representative Kenyatta!!! Expose the corruption and hypocrisy!
Excatly!!
and what is the corruption and hypocrisy exactly? he employers get to decide at what price they want to pay the employee and the employee gets to decide how much they want to get paid...both sides negotiate...if negotiation doesnt work, the employee can go elsewhere and the employer gets to find someone else...done...
@@asiannation90 Because the last time that happened: Workers were paid in "tokens."
Because businesses weren't obligated to pay them at all.
Which just increases the gap of Economic Inequality.
@@asiannation90 He is not arguing against negotiation, but there needs to be a minimum, negotiating for 50c an hour is out of the question.
@@asiannation90 This sort of negotiation works best when there is healthy competition, but if employers "agree" to never offer more than a set low amount then an employee can't bargain because the employer knows they cannot go anywhere and get a better rate, and the employers can all ensure better profits for themselves. It's not a fair negotiation.
When looking at markets and market participants we keep them from being able to collude in such a way to stifle competition. In this case, we do it to protect the consumer, and we use the government to enforce it. In the case of minimum wages, we can't strictly make it so that there is a more fair competition, rather, we raise the floor so that despite the persistent unfair negotiation, the persons on the short end of the stick can still survive. We do this on behalf of the worker, and again should utilize the government to do so.
You'll notice in both cases the government is positioned as protecting the "little guy". This isn't accidental. The "big guy" naturally has advantage that can be used to crush the "little guy", and as a result, does not need extra protection. The people rally together and vest the government with power to protect them. The big guys should support this too, as they may not always be the big guy.
When we really think about the situation, if we let the big guy treat little guys poorly enough that they are "removed from play" the system won't find some nice equilibrium where all the big guys live happily ever after. Rather, the smallest of the big buys becomes the new little guy and the situation continues until one person holds all the power. Those who realize this is not ideal for the vast majority work together to prevent this.
I hope you will fairly consider all of these statements.
When you say you want the minimum wage to be $0/hour you are stating you want slaves.
She didn't say that the wages should be zero. She said the minimum is actually zero. That doesn't mean people should accept this kind of jobs, and probably wouldn't.
Her stating that the minimum wage of $7.25/hr to be $0/hr, sounds very similar to saying that workers are just 'numbers.'
As a government aficionado, I'm very disgusted by what she's saying.
"compensated for what you bring to the table"
That would be true if we were permitted access to the table.
The best part is, the lower class brings _literally all the value_
Without the working class, all the rich have is a pile of shiny, _inedible_ rocks.
@@potaterjim Essentially, we bring the table, just to be treated like chairs.
Guess that’s the case for the trump family and the like...I THINK NOT!
@@potaterjim facts. The working class is the reason I have easy access to food, the reason I have easy access to cheap clothing, the reason there isn't trash all over the street.
Or access to the SKILLS to bring to the table without a lifetime of crushing debt to follow.
“Minimum wage should be $0 an hour”
Slavery. Y’all realize that what that is right?
Edit: you realize that’s what some companies would do right? Hire people at 0 an hour. Not everyone but anyone they could get away with people with disabilities, people in the country illegally. The minimum wage is there a for a reason. It may not be what most people think of a slavery but what else do you call it when someone is working for $0? Often with no ability to negotiate or realize they might be taken advantage of?
You are right. However, I don't remember that being said.
I remember her saying the real minimum wage IS zero.
You should never misquote someone for the sake is making your point
@@dougshellusn she was wrong though maybe if she said a penny she would have been right from what she said we can only conclude slavery. Working for zero pay equals slavery not minimum wage
She wasn't saying people should work for free. If a salary was 0 no one would take the job. Again, not saying I agree with this perspective, but you shouldn't misrepresent the quote.
@@xoreign i understood her intentions of the quote being that if she could legally pay her employees nothing she would no need to defend this lady she isn’t even intelligent enough to articulate what she actually means but wants to keep people oppressed
Raising the minimum wage means more people will lose their job and less people will have available job opportunities. The real minimum wage is $0 because people go from something to nothing.
Forcing raising wages doesn’t help.
"I don't feel I need to justify my comments-" I'm sorry, your comments that revolve around lowering the wages of other people?
“WoNt BrInG mUcH tO tHe TaBle” doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the basic human right to a wage??
Welp, that's what a capitalist country want the most, profits. They don't care about people life unless it is for profit.
@@bariendexterelgar4312 their profit margins will fall when their lowest can not use what they got.
Employers have the right to deny employees as well.
"It's $7.25 or $0, your 'choice.'"
"Oh, $7.25 is below minimum? Get going, then. Now I need to see who else needs to go."
This is the problem: the superior bargaining power of employers.
If they don't need you, start a successful business or you're homeless.
Maybe mandate a minimum number of laborers depending on Income?
Mr. Kenyatta is a HERO! I can’t believe the chairman interrupted him.
And had the gal to tell everyone to not interrupt people while he was interrupting him
Telling him to be polite when all he did was ask a very valid question and then everything after just showed that he's blatantly racist since he's obviously only treating the person of color (who likely worked much harder than him to get to sit at the same table) with that kind of attitude and none of the other legislatures.
@@gamingelementalist6725 inappropriate political bias? Almost certainly. Blatant racism? That's kind of a stretch
Please drop the chairman's name, may be we could talk things out with him. :) I'll show him how to be courteous.
He's a Republican. What's hard to believe?
imagine being given the title "essential worker" and then being told that they prefer to pay you $0 for your job.
The $0 she refers to is not a wage suggestion for employers, it is the tragic result of having your job outlawed because it's not worth a certain minimum to an employer. That's the meaning behind the phrase "The real minimum wage is always $0".
If any employer is not willing to pay you, that means there is no job for you to do. That means you are unemployed and therefore not an essential worker.
People have this false notion that everyone deserves a job and that every job has to pay a livable wage. No. This is entirely incorrect. Jobs, just like a commodity, fall under the rules of supply and demand. The lives of the people required to do those jobs, like it or not, is also a commodity from the economic standpoint. When there aren’t enough jobs, or when most jobs don’t pay enough, it means that there are far too many people, and that each person’s efforts and contributions becomes expendable and replaceable. This is not a problem that simply artificially mandating a higher minimum wage can solve.
I think most people who say "the real minimum wage is $0" are referring to apprenticeship programs, and how much more beneficial they can be compared to an expensive college program
I can see where you're coming from but the words chosen where terribly done. She could have just said the word "unemployed" and that's it. Saying $0/h is the minimum wage implies that a person is work (because they are receiving a wage) and earning paycheck is $0/h, in other words slavery.
@@brand7861 Apprenticeships are not what she, or any other libertarian leaning person is talking about when they say "the real minimum wage is zero". They are talking about unemployed people. It's an expression that's been around for a while.
When someone pays you minimum wage, they are basically saying "If I could, I would pay you less".
Or rather, "you are worth less"
it doesn't mean that you have to accept the offer. If 7.25 is the best you can get, then take it. Get some knowledge and experience and work your way up
@@jonaassendelft2374 So you don't have to accept the offer, just accept it and work your way up??
So in essence you have to accept the offer as you can't get more... You just made the case that you actually HAVE to accept the offer.
As someone who doesn't live in America, I'm absolutely baffled. How can anyone live on a 7$/h salary? I only finished high school, and I work at a gas station part time - yet I earn approximately 19$ an hour. The difference is astounding.
Her: You don’t deserve a minimum wage.
Him: And how much do you make, ma’am?
The entire court, apparently: WhAt DoEs ThAt HaVe To Do WiTh- CaN wE pLeAsE kEeP tHiS **CiViL**????
How is it fair to pay someone more than the value of their work?
People can’t complain if they’re living outside their means when they made a career out of an entry-level job. 🤦♂️
@@GGIC. When your means are $0/year, I don't think budget plans and some scrimping will cut it.
@@poopburgerfakename8532
Agreed. Which is why they should not raise the minimum wage because many people will go from having a wage to $0. You have to consider the effect of raising the wages. Many will also get their hours cut.
Where are all the illegal homeless people?
@@GGIC. If employers cannot afford to pay a raised minimum wage for the same hours, they will fire employees to cut costs. Is that what you mean by 'go from having a wage to $0'?
The fired employee will lose their source of income and most likely file for unemployment benefits until they can find another job.
On the other hand, assuming a $0 minimum wage, the employee does not have a source of income nor can they file for unemployment benefits.
Raised minimum wages are undoubtedly better for the employees than a $0 minimum wage, but what about the employers? The employers, as mentioned before, will have to fire employees or reduce their hours.
If the employees benefit more from unemployment than from working, they'll have to get fired somehow.
@@poopburgerfakename8532 there's ways around that, but you'll scream Socialism.
Raise the minimum wage across the board. If a company can't afford to pay it, they are audited on profits and owners/CEO pays/bonuses. If they prove they truly can't afford the workers, the taxpayers can cover up to 40% (placing the business expenses to pre-raise costs.) At the same time, we audit, say Walmart, and for every X% of employees on government assistance, we add 1% to their owed taxes, that we allocate SPECIFICALLY to covering the added expenses to small businesses.
Also, I know plenty of small businesses that were never truly realized due to the near impossible task of affording to live while scraping the capital to start a business off of the current wages.
I last earned $15A in about 1987, how the wealthiest country in the world can think $7.50 is ok in 2021 just blows my mind.
We can't. Not those who are making it, anyway.
The "$0 is the real minimum wage" woman,must be a distant relative of Marie Antoinette🎂(or a nobleman who had many serfs working in the castle😳)
And the minimum wage hasn't been increased in a decade, and the GOP still came out as being completely against raising it over a period of years up to $15/hr. They are so insanely out of touch with the loves of your average American.
@@blakebrown4060 and a lot of the people who vote Republican suffer the most because of it.
Because you pay 7.50$ to the high school kids you can’t pay the long time workers over 8.50$ lol there ain’t that much money to go around in a fast food operation.
I quit my "essential" dairy farming job and went to work in retail after the minimum wage was raised to 20. Kinda stupid but why do 5x the work for no extra reward
I like how they're both interrupting this woman and not letting her answer the question
That chairman needs to get fired, he shouldn't represent ANY city ever.
You got that right
AGREED!
Chairman is a straight up simp
True
Mr Kenyatta should have more restraint.
You are NOT rewarded "by what you bring to the table". You are offered what an employer thinks he/she believes they can get away with.
This
You can grab whatever crumbs fall from the table.
@@elizabethellis9062 The overwhelming majority do. They just dont know it. Which i bet includes yourself.
@@robertmoore6149 I’m actually self employed but I spent years working for tyrants who never thought to share the wealth, and I knew it.
Exactly
Let's call this for what it is - that Chair knows Ms Steele so there's an automatic bias, and any Black committee member who challenges Ms Steele is 'unpolite'. How about the Chair and Steele have their pay cut to minimum wage and see how they cope.
I'm glad he pointed out that many of us working minimum wage have a college degree and experience.
And i doubt you know what the minium wage of your state is, or how much of a redherring it is.
Or do you think California has the same wage as say Flordia or Louisiana?
State min wage tends to balance out with its cost of living, not gonna sell something if someone can't afford to buy it.
What’s the point of having representatives speaking on minimum wage if they’re constantly interrupted by a chairman who refuses to let them speak? Kudos to Kenyatta for defending his district, and advocating for a livable minimum wage
What's the point of having meeting about minimum wage when you invite testifier that have salary way above the minimum wage ?
this is the reason the world looks on America now with disgust.
This, and all the coup d'etats, all the wars for oil and regime change, all the drug pushing, all the imperialism... you know, a few more things.
@@caranaar Not to mention the mass shootings, the bigotry and denial of climate change.
Dont worry we look with disgust for years but its just getting worse
Jan_YTview must be another dumb republican, the root of disgust towards our great nation.
@@gibospartan6185 majority of asian countries, which makes the majority of humans in this planet also denies climate change...
As an employer and company owner. I ask my hiring managers to look for those who make minimum wage first for employees. Nobody works harder than a person who was making $12-$15 hr and now starts at $30 hr.
They also appreciate the tools, customers, and company morals more when they make more doing less work.
exactly I was making barley enough to get by and I got my CDL and now have a local job making triple what I was before. Its about being humble and I will always be humble. I grew up poor and I don't want my family to struggle anymore so If I get good paying jobs then I will hang on!
This lady: "I think slavery is acceptable" (this is basically what $0 an hour means)
Mr Kenyatta: "Why?"
This lady: "I don't think I have to justify my answer"
No, unless you're forced to do so it does not equal slavery.
Gaslighting him telling him to calm down for questioning her. They want to pay people a dollar? That’s an incredibly violent thing to do to people, he had the right to be upset
There's gonna be riots and im here for it.
How is it violence? How do you define violence?
@@hoominbeeing behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or k*** someone or something.
@@Redfoxx-pg7km So how is paying people a low wage violence?
@@hoominbeeing Becauuuuse you exploit a person's time and effort, wich in our world is exchanged with means to live : house, food, health care, hobbies ; that is, money.
This woman says that people should give their time and effort but with nothing in exchange.
Giving their life to the profit of others.
(That's called slavery, except slaves are generally provided with the minimum ressources to survive and thus working, so if not directy provided by the employer, there should be a minimum wage for the slavery to be economicaly efficient 👌 exceeept if your goal is to kill the people, but I mean, you need a looot of people to do that and still produce things)
How dare the chairman interrupt his questioning with such idiotic rhetoric? “Please be courteous and polite and not interrupt” but keeps interrupting while he asks valid questions.
I think they call that “gaslighting”
He was interrupting what she was saying though wasn’t he?
@@charlesparent-spioneck9928 yea yes he was
The only idiotic comments were by Kenyatta. Hard working people do not "deserve" anything if nobody wants only "hard work". Robots and machines work "hard" - do they get paid?
Wages are in exchange for skills - thats the 21st century, yet we have 19th century marxist BS being spouted to defend stupidity.
@@iaf010 I think you're missing the angle of having no minimum wage means the employers can exploit desperate workers who need income and can keep paying them less and less. Having a minimum wage will then prevent wage exploitation and force employers to reconsider whether or not they think extra workers are required.
they're like "its not slavery, we just put the cost of upkeep of the help onto themselves, their responsibility". heard this dude scream at me at the top of his lungs "It's never going to be fair!" as though if things were fair was something to be afraid of
I'd just stop paying all taxes. Problem solved. Also more crime. I'd definitely turn to crime.
haha sup plexi
"The costs outweigh the benefits" is a rich person telling you that paying a living wage cuts into their "profits".
I'll be brave and say many businesses WILL have to shut down if we pass a $15 min wage, because CEOs and executives would rather keep their "profits" instead of re-investing in their companies... and honestly, those businesses need to go. Out with the old, in with the new.
We should be rewarding companies for re-investing in employees.
Ontario's minimum wage is $14 and we have yet to see any massive job loss or widespread businesses failing, despite what the conservatives said would happen. We're doing fine!
ever notice that the people who do nothing but yap all day are the ones who get paid tens of millions a year. maybe they should be paid minimum wage because they do nothing but yap all day.
Make unemployment great again.
@Ariel Sasson have you looked at the national debt lately, America is broke and going downhill by the minute.
@@edgarpryor3233 funny the debt wasn't an issue when the rich were given a tax break during trumpskis watch. Now it's an issue.
Saying all minimum wage workers are just high school kids is one of the most out of touch and insulting perspectives on how our economy works. There are so many minimum wage jobs out there that adults provide and need to be payed fairly for. Who cares if a kid has disposable income. We aren’t talking about them, we are talking about full grown adults with real lives and real responsibilities. This tired scape goat of saying oh it’s only kids taking these jobs is so unimaginably moronic that these college graduate politicians need to rethink their pay grade.
These people don't work these jobs and dont realize how many different people have minimum wage jobs as a necessity. The store I work for has people with multiple kids, college students try to earn money for tuition, middle aged people, even disabled and elderly people. The sad thing is that less than 1/5th of them are also part time and they juggle 2 or 3 other jobs to try and make a livable wage. They are missing out on any benefits a full time position would give such as Healthcare/dental/optical insurance.
@@mokana713
They know exactly who works these jobs. Poor people. Who they do not care about and wish to keep poor. Even poorer if they can help it.
I noticed that, too. It was an awefully ignorant thing to say.
We we're warned.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson
Maybe we should have tiered minimum wages. $8-$10 an hour for those under 18 years of age, $12-$15 for those over.
UNNECESSARY?? THIS IS HOW PEOPLE SURVIVE
I worked at McDonald’s as a high school kid, and you know who my coworkers were? College graduates, veterans, folks in their 60’s, disabled people, parents, 18 year olds kicked out of their parents home not able to afford rent
I wish she had to personally go to workers and take their wages. I wish she had to see just how much it hurts every day people and how out of touch with reality she is.
"Not bring that much to the table as an employee."
And she says that confidently about the very people who prepare, manufacture, and produce everything from her breakfast smoothie to her car... what a vile creature!
You get paid for labor, actually.
@socialism is oppression
You are payed for your workforce, whether skilled or unskilled.
@socialism is oppression It shouldn't
@socialism is oppression that skill argument is total bs. Plenty of huge industries rely on "unskilled" labor to even function. If every single one of those "unskilled" workers quit those large companies would completely cease to function. They need US more than we need THEM. Replace a CEO making 200,000 a year or get rid of him completely. The company could still function perfectly fine. The workers are essential. We are the United States. We are what drives the economy. No one who is willing to work a job deserves to make less than a livable wage. Terms like unskilled labor were thought up by greedy people to justify their exploitation. If your business cannot function without exploiting people (i.e. you pay people a wage that isn't livable), then guess what, your business model is trash and you don't deserve to be in business.
@socialism is oppression ok So how about you go work on some factory cars? Oh, you don't want to? You see why people are paid now? Because they fulfill a role in society that enables us to function.
"there is no reason to enforce a minimum wage"
Google translate: "I have never known what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck"
I have lived paycheck to paycheck.
There is no reason to enforce a minimum wage. 😕
@@jaclynskiles3288 there is reason, if there is no minimum wage, then that becomes basic slavery. Because companies will want to lower expenses as much as possible and pay likely a penny to employees. The whole reason of a min wage is to make it so that people can still get jobs that allows them to be ABOVE the poverty line.
@@jaclynskiles3288 but isn't the existance of a minimum wage the reason why you're even able to live paycheck to paycheck? would 2$/hr still be paycheck to paycheck or would it be literally impossible to live?
@@jaclynskiles3288 From a strict libertarian stand point, yes. But by that logic, we shouldn't have any regulations. Regulations are here for a reason. Companies will do whatever is best for their bottom line. MOST large companies will not do what's best for their employees or community. If they can dump toxic waste into the drinking water reservoirs to save some money, MOST companies would do it in a heart. There's good companies out there, but removing regulations is like getting rid of traffic laws. They are there to hold people accountable and set standards as to what is ok and what is not. We don't live a society where morality is rewarded. We have capitalism, which encourages greed.
@@jaclynskiles3288 I live paycheck to paycheck. Enforce a minimum wage
I mean we're seeing companies paying people RAISING wages during a PANDEMIC and still making PROFIT.
I don't see raising the minimum wage as a hurtful move.
Minimum wage is hurtful because it create massive unemployment (people who would work for less than a minimum wage and now couldn't). And no, minimum wage doesn't raise wages, that's a myth.
@@TheLucasbr152 Requiring a minimum amount of pay for work does not increase the amount people get paid for work? Neat. Do you find sweat shops an acceptable form of employment? As in would you be happy for the united states to have them? If not then I have to ask why not?
@@bradenwilliams790 First: No, it doesn't increase anything, It just forces employers to give up hiring people who would work for less than the minimum wage. It's not a raise, it's actually a restriction on the job market, that pulls away potentially less productive people and people with less experience and qualifications than the average (such as teenagers, black people, immigrants...) Not only that, but the origin of the minimum wage law was to deliberately cause an eugenics among immigrants and black people (do you doubt it? So, look up "racist roots of minimum wage).
@@bradenwilliams790 Secondly, who are you to determine an "acceptable" form of employment? It has to be acceptable to the employer and the employee, not for us.
@@KezanzatheGreat Well, as I explained, to those desperate and unqualified people, minimum wage laws won't raise their wages, but rather lead them to *UNEMPLOYMENT* . Without a minimum wage law this people could earn "bad" wages. But with a minimum, this people aren't even hired, and consequently, earn 0$/h. Minimum wage law is a demagoguery, and has deliberately racist/eugenics roots.
Funny how people who’ve never made minimum wage want to decide what the minimum is shout out to the brother in the video need more people like him who stand up for the people!!
I believe the problem lies exactly here: 2:44
They think that the ones making minimun wage are all high school kids who are still supported by their parents and not college graduates wanting to be indenpendent but being unable to because of the minimun wage.
Teen jobs (below 18) are near nonexistent now because so many aren't able to find jobs even with college degrees
I have a college degree and am working at a Dunkin Donuts. Couldn't get a job in my field when I graduated thanks to 9/11 tanking the economy. No one wanted to leave the work force. Now it's too late to do what I wanted and my body can't handle the second option any more. I'm working at a Dunkin Donuts bustin my butt to get raises so I can make decent pay for all the incompetence I have to put up with. You can't live off $9/hr in the richest county in South Carolina. I couldn't do it on $11/hr in PA. I cut my losses and moved home to SC where I knew I could make more, spend less, but had to leave my SO up there. :/
I should mention that COVID really hurt the job market too with the lockdowns and shutdowns.
@@adakahless Dude, save up and move tf out of this country. Escape while you still can. I'm sorry you're in that situation :(
They don't think that at all, that is just the narrative the spend non-stop to make people believe that is the case. I know college graduates making minimum wage.
I have a Bachelors degree in Digital Media, Age 26, and I can’t get a job in my field because I “lack experience” so I can only get jobs in customer service because that is what is on my resume. Fun fact, minimum wage in LA is $15 but rent is sky high. So it still isn’t much of an impact. The fact that people are so against livable wages disgusts me!
" I suffered so it's ok for me to make you suffer" is the childish foundation of so much nonsense in the world.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it's actually worse. "i never suffered, because you did, therefore you must continue to". it's insulting.
Murica!
If it's even true what she claims, that she didn't even make min wage at some point in her life. Probably when she was a teenager living with her parents.
i don't think it's the foundation; it's just the excuse. kinda reminds me of kwame nkrumah when he said "slavery didn't appear because of racism; racism appeared because of slavery"
The question is not being paid fairly, the question is are their work WORTH their wage.
"you're comparing college graduates with 10 or 20 years experience with a high school kid"... if the minimum wage was removed, how exactly does that high school kid become a college graduate while making $1 an hour?
Not necessarily a college graduate (education is a whole other issue in this country), but certainly somebody with a skillset able to make good money. Ill give an example; lets say you own a plumbing business and you have someone with no experience looking for a job. If there was no minimum wage or if the minimum wage is low, youd probably consider bringing this person on to do simple things and train them over time to be able to handle more difficult tasks. Now this person has a skillset they can use to leverage a higher wage somewhere else.
Now lets say the minimum wage is $15-$20 an hour. Why would you hire somebody at that rate who you have to train, who wouldnt even be profitable to your business for atleast a few months? You wouldnt. Youd just hire somebody that already has experience that can do the job. This is how the minimum wage hurts potential earnings for people.
"I don't need to justify my comments". Wait...Isn't that one of the major parts of a meeting?
I know one thing. If anyone says they can’t justify the things they’re saying, that would be a good time to stop listening to them.
I'm happy to see Kenyatta throwing down as hard as he sounded last year. Man of the people right there.
Mininum wage : ‘exists’
Ober : im getting paid minimum wage right ?
Restaurant owner :
Ober : im getting paid minimum wage right !?
America's minimum wage seems low to me, it's 15$ here in Canada
*15 CAD is about 12 USD