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/Remaining/ California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wage, starting Monday.

The "minimum wage" is, and remains: $0

Yes we know, you can gleefully brag about the mass layoffs of fast food workers soon. Please post here when it happens.

One silver lining about the pandemic is the cat is out of the bag how robust the economy is despite what MBA's, economists, and rentier billionaires would have you think. And political leaders are now well aware of the bill of goods they were sold by those knuckleheads.

Can we blame the welfare queens from starting to drum up support for more taxpayer funded bailouts in anticipation of a recession?

> welfare queens

Please define this term for me, thanks

The term welfare queen is a term that originally was used by conservatives to oppose federal social programs. The term describes a supposed well off black urban single mother living off benefits. Fact, most recipients of welfare are white rural poor.

More recently people use the term to describe the over class living a life backstopped by the government.

I know what a welfare queen means when it's used as a dogwhistle.

I made that post to engage with delfinom to hopefully get them to drop the mask and/or maybe do some self reflection about what a CHUD they are

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