until then i will make 215 an hour.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers. Equivalently, it is the price floor below which workers may not sell their labor. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in many jurisdictions, differences of opinion exist about the benefits and drawbacks of a minimum wage. Supporters of the minimum wage say it increases the standard of living of workers, reduces poverty, reduces inequality, and boosts morale. In contrast, opponents of the minimum wage say it increases poverty, increases unemployment (particularly among unskilled or inexperienced workers) and is damaging to businesses, because excessively high minimum wages require businesses to raise the prices of their product or service to accommodate the extra expense of paying a higher wage. Modern national laws enforcing compulsory union membership which proscribed minimum wages for their members were first passed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890s. The movement for minimum wages was first motivated as a way to stop the exploitation of workers in sweatshops, by employers who were thought to have unfair bargaining power over them. Over time, minimum wages came to be seen as a way to help lower-income families.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just started a new job, but they only pay as little as they are legally allowed."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the minimum wage in your area?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In Oklahoma it is $7.25 an hour."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am not sure what it is in my state, minimum wage is hard to live on."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's the truth. If it didn't cost so much to move, I'd go to Washington. They have $11.50/hour pay."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well the problem with the minimum wage being higher is that the cost of living is also higher, so really it equals out"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, that may be true to some extent, places that raise minimum wage tend to see a decrease in poverty."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The decrease is only based on earned income, wages may be higher but people do not have more because it costs that much more to live."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'd really like to see the introduction of a living wage system, like they have in the UK."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do not really like the government meddling in wages etc, there are always problems when the higher ups make life decisions for businesses and related to personal wages they pay. Interesting concept though"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Thank you for your time. It was nice speaking with you."}]