STUDY: Minimum Wage Workers Need 4 Full Time Jobs To Get By | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.

“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”

The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.

“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”

But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.

It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.

“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”

With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.

While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.

But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.

Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.

I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”

And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”

Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”

It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode. “That Raytheon decided they don’t hate gays or trans people — frankly, I don’t really give a shit what their take on that is..."

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[HHT]

These are facts. It makes no sense going to a job wasting years of your life getting paid slave wages. This country is pathetic.

[almosthelpless]

"You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." - George W. Bush

[Daniel]

How to get 4 full time jobs? Literally no sleep no rest work 24/7? Are we robots now? Even robots will break down at those rate.

[KG]

What the right never factors in with their “higher minimum wage = mass layoffs” theory is that when working class people have more money, they spend more money. Meaning those small businesses they pretend to care about would make more money. We may have to help subsidize small business staffing a bit in the beginning, but the pros should more than make up for the cons. And a higher minimum wage helps raise wages for EVERYONE.

[harryballsak]

So even at $15 a hour a person needs TWO full time jobs

[dek]

We need higher wages for our people I am sick and tired of hearing people getting treated like trash this is awful that people have do four jobs to get by

[alexandermcbrien]

Hi Kyle hope you are well, I live in Australia and work a little above minimum wage doing warehouse work. It's a real struggle for most people over here as inflation and interest rates have gotten crazy out of hand. Anyways, my Mother is Disabled so doesn't work and my brother lives with my Dad just a few hours outside of Melbourne since we do not get along with each other. It used to be enough this income just to get by but with inflation on food, petrol and other things and with wages going up slightly but not enough to keep up with inflation we are all poorer and I'm forced to take up another part time job on top of the fill time job I already have. It feels like I am in a poverty trap as like I said my Mum doesn't work and my other family live nowhere close to us and we do not know anyone else to move in with us to help us pay the bills and therefore cannot trust them 100%. Everyone has told me to study and skill up to make more money however when you're in the situation that I am in you literally cannot afford to take time off of work as a lot of these courses require you to miss 2 or 3 days a week and I can't do that and pay my bills unlike some people that were born into wealth, it's getting very hard today to survive, I think it will only get harder as time goes on.

[DanA-nluo]

That literally means the rent is more that the entire income from one job.

[bradbloom]

Remember the bullsh¡t line that if we raise the minimum wage then a Big Mac would cost $20 or whatever? So yeah, in places like Denmark, Australia, etc, etc, employees are paid $20/hr or more, and a Big Mac costs LESS than it does in America. Which should surprise no one, if a corporation is allowed to pay less than a living wage while simultaneously charging ever higher prices for customers, that’s a win-win for them, so of course they’d do that. It’s on us and by extension our representatives to not allow that to happen. And as demonstrated in other countries, it’s not only possible, it’s the moral, ethical, and long-term superior way of doing things if we measure success in terms of the health and sustainability of a society as opposed to the latest quarterly earnings of a handful of Wall St. sociopaths.
#NotMeUs💚👊#Revolution 👀

[fishbike]

There are 168 hours in a week. 4 full time jobs are 4 X 40 hours = 160 hours. That leaves 8 hours per week to eat, sleep, shop, travel, and “cover remaining essentials”.

[kelly-bo-belly]

DON’T FORGET! Every part time employee is counted as fully employed by labor statistics.

[Wholesome_Fries]

"Just get a 5th job then!'"

[rhileyorchard]

Im a topped out employee working at Costco full time. My rent at 30% of my income should be $1000 a month. I pay $1950 for a tiny three bedroom here in SLC, UT. Yeah some shit needs to change I just dont know where to start.

[antigtohighlights]

there is literally no way you can get $400/month housing in baltimore - unless its in the ghetto and you have at least one roommate - $700 is the cheapest for a studio in all of maryland

[I]

Young, New & Slaved Wage Workers
are Too Exhausted & Stressed to
be able to go all out on any!

[amanofnoreputation]

If it's a fundamental human right that everyone should be fed and sheltered, why isn't this available as standard? How come you aren't just given a basic house and the option to work your way up to a better one instead of living in constant existential fear of homelessness or being enslaved to landlords?

[db]

As I posted on a Texas Paul video back on 2/6:
Austin might be the wealthiest city in TX, but the people who work in our offices down there can't afford any of the housing within an hours drive from where they work. Might be a wealthy city, but the people who are a part of that economy aren't getting their share of that wealth.

[FlashMRC]

There aren't nearly enough hours in the day to even work 3 full time jobs, let alone 4!
Isn't capitalism just wonderful? \s

[chillepalmerz]

High school kids working at McDonalds should also get $15 an hour so they can save for their first apartment.

[jdice]

The same politicians who fight minimum wage increases run campaigns in which they claim to be "Tough on Crime." If you want to reduce crime, see to it people can make a living wage! Full-time employees who can pay their bills don't commit crimes for financial gain. Violent crimes require mental healthcare and equality measures. Of course, it's easier to just talk about raised sentencing & policing while ignoring that our 1/20 world's population has 1/5 of the world's prisoners.