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  The indicator was based on productivity growth. From its inception in 1938 to 1968, the minimum wage rose based on that indicator. If the same was true today, minimum wage would be around 24 dollars an hour or 48,000 dollars a year.
context: What do you expect? We've been relying on the good will of the bosses, and the integrity of the crooked politicians they lobby, to achieve better rights as workers. 
  American workers need to learn: If you want something good, you need to take it. Organize, fight dirty, be as vicious as your enemy. 
  We're battling people who see us as chattel, but there's only a few of them and a near-limitless number of us. Crush them. >
  
  Americans need to stop seeing Unions as a dirty word. 
  Thats the only way you get treated better. >
  
  One of the biggest coups of the 1980’s was the demonization of the unions. The people who lapped that poisonous rhetoric up ruined this nation >
  
  $15USD in 2012 would now be $19.45USD. >
  
  I was literally about to comment it should be $20 now. This is ridiculous. Longest stretch without a raise ever. >
  
  I remember in 2008 when I was working my first job and my wage raised with the minimum wage from $6.50 to $7.25… >
  
  Ooh, did your employer also make a big deal of it and pretend like they were doing you a favor by giving you the legally required raise? >
  
  Does a bear shit in the woods?  Does the Earth go around the sun?  Is Trump corrupt asf? >
  
  Does the pope shit in the communion wine? >
  
  And meanwhile ten years of inflation has made $15 comically inadequate. >
  
  Which is why targeting a number is kinda dumb. Most developed countries have their minimum wage tied to an economic indicator or two so that it automatically goes up over time.