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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year ago Basically everyone needs like 100% more money. Yes. They do. If you’re doing something vastly more specialized than making food quickly, you should be paid much more than $20/hour. And in California, $20/hour still isn’t a livable wage.
minus-square@Num10cklinkEnglish-4•1 year agoand of course if every makes 100% more money then the price of everything goes up 100% and we’re no better off.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-21 year agoExcept for the fact that doesn’t actually happen in other parts of the world that increase wages universally. Why would it happen here?
Yes. They do. If you’re doing something vastly more specialized than making food quickly, you should be paid much more than $20/hour.
And in California, $20/hour still isn’t a livable wage.
and of course if every makes 100% more money then the price of everything goes up 100% and we’re no better off.
Except for the fact that doesn’t actually happen in other parts of the world that increase wages universally. Why would it happen here?