That's why im worried about this $15 minimum wage in Seattle... It just seems like a terrible idea. I'm actually slowly becoming poorer even though im "tightening the belt" expense wise and shopping a lot smarter and eating less. The world is shrinking for us losers ... Just working to afford being able to sleep somewhere and drive to work basically. I might be forced to move back to federal way within a couple years and im not even technically in Seattle
Yeah it's getting pretty bad all over the country. Cost of living is getting retarded, but wages aren't going up at all. Seattle is gonna be interesting because yeah they're getting $15 an hour now, but I can almost guarantee prices will start hiking up for everything evening it back out again.
The shit with my apartment is pissing me off how they raise my rent every single year to the point they want me to pay $300 more than I did 3 years ago, but my money hasn't gone up at all in those 3 years and all my money comes from Government sources which shows how crazy it is. The Government ain't raising Government wages, yet cost of living is raising like crazy and my wages are supposedly set by area code cost of living. What the fuck.
I think somebody from Portland in here was talking about some similar shit there, think it was evergreenrider. Said Portland got so crazy raising cost of living, but no wage increases he had to move way out to the suburbs.
[tinfoilhat]Shit is nuts and I feel like it's purposefully orchestrated to start turning more middle class poor and making the poor even poorer to eventually have a tighter control on people.[/tinfoilhat]