Discussion on Minimum Wage and Capitalism

Would you like to live off $7.25 an hour?

I used to work for $4.25 at Häagen-Dazs.

Right.

Then I went and worked at-

And that was a very different time

... Burger King for $4.75.

And how much do you make now?

Then I went to, I make millions today. Then I worked at Bob's Big Boy.

Right, and that's why you like capitalism, because we're not all making that.

No, but, but, but the difference is-

And that's my point

... but the difference between the, the, no, the difference-

A millionaire is critiquing people in poverty and saying-

My hope-

... "You should work harder. You should, you should work, you know, you can be me."

My hope, my hope-

"You can't all be."

My hope is that you believe you can change and improve,

that you believe you can upgrade yourself. That's my belief.

It's very, and you know what? That's what rich people like you want to

keep telling

us.

Yeah. But you-

"You can be just like me."

But the difference-

Do you wanna be like me?

Yeah.

If you work hard enough, you can be like me.

I'm not saying that. I don't, I don't-

It's not very realistic

... it's actually, you wouldn't be able to be like me because

you wouldn't work

that hard.

And you're talking down to people like us.

Would you work that hard?

You don't-

Would you?

I'm not gonna tell you, I don't have to answer that.

Would, would you, if, if you don't choose to-

I don't have to measure my, like, I don't have to measure my work ethic to

be

worthy