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marcosdumay | on: Trump wins presidency for second time
That's some incompetence from the part of the responder. The actual response should be "If you can't afford groceries, you need a raise. Here's how I'm helping you get one."

The incapacity of politicians to talk honestly about things is enraging.

jcadam | parent | next
A raise would be nice, I'm making exactly what I made in 2021. Wage growth for software engineers is stagnant because demand for senior software engineers has fallen off a cliff the last few years.
pasquinelli | parent | next
well, take your example: what is the politician doing to help me get a raise?
andyferris | root | parent | next
Policy can encourage wage growth, subsidies can be given out, and politicians could increase both the minimum wage and public sector wages whenever they choose.
tunesmith | root | parent | next
The easiest answer is focusing on policies that encourage low unemployment, which theoretically increases job mobility and wage growth.

Dems did that on the surface, but unfortunately unemployment is very distorted by inequality.

Sort of related to trade policy in that way I think. More trade is good but not if it isn't paired with ways to keep inequality from running amok.

cyberax | root | parent | next
Increase the minimum wage, strengthen the overtime rules, etc.
fuzzfactor | root | parent | next
>you need a raise. Here's how I'm helping you get one.

Said no politician ever, even the most union-supporting :0

a123b456c | root | parent | next
Maybe tie the minimum wage to inflation?
marcosdumay | root | parent | next
I don't really know the details of the US election. But two things that I know are that Kamala couldn't be pro-union, what sucks for her, and Trump spent a really huge amount of time talking about ways to increase people's salaries that can't possibly work, but were actual proposals he made.
AnotherGoodName | root | parent | next
Honestly at this point we start getting into a long discussion such as benefits of unionisation and why we should support it alongside collective bargaining and the fact that rising the minimum wage floor raises wages of other low paying jobs.

At some point though I’m throwing academic sources to the voter at which point I’ve probably lost the discourse because it’s hard to reason about.

The reality is I don’t do any of the above. I’m not even interested in debating the point anymore. People don’t want to hear long winded academic discourse on the best economic approaches to anything.

I’ve bluntly completely lost faith in American democracy. The candidate with the biggest budget has won consistently and the biggest budget comes mostly from corporate donations via PACs.

jandrese | root | parent | next
The Harris campaign spent more money directly, but the GOP had quite a lot more 527 funding. This is typical of modern elections.
eep_social | root | parent | next
> we start getting into a long discussion

I view this as the major contributing cause to the current situation. The cyclic dependencies among issues that need attention mean that explaining a fix simply and truthfully is no longer possible. In the current system, a simple explanation is a prerequisite for winning the votes to implement anything. Parties acting in good faith don’t stand a chance.

> completely lost faith in American democracy

Exactly. It doesn’t function without intangibles like “good faith” or “norms” which have been discarded.

caethan | root | parent
Harris significantly outspent Trump, particularly in key swing states.
siffin | parent | next
Republicans just voted down plenty of bills that would have raised the minimum wage in a few states, so I don't think you understand how incompetent republican voters are.
watwut | parent
Honesty does not win elections. Trump wom twice. It has squat zero to do with victory for honesty.