Row 76915

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Wow, shocking that what makes a wage livable depends heavily on the local cost of living. Does that really make it a silly metric to aim for? I aim for a livable wage (and will not work for less), and becoming insistent on it has made my life infinitely better.

Livable wage=area median 1b apartment rent*3

That wasn't hard at all. Arbitrary means not based on an objective distinction. What could be more objective than setting a living wage based on the biggest expense of living in a given place?

Lowering the minimum wage allows further exploitation of workers. Workplaces already have cut out as many employees as they possibly can, if the minimum wage goes up, the pay goes up. If an employee could be eliminated without harming the business, they'd already be gone.

Now I could agree with lowering the minimum wage to 0, but it only works with a robust ubi. That way really desirable/easy/beneficial jobs could pay $1 an hour without continuing to turn the nation into a bunch of Pottersvilles.

I'd rather be unemployed (and have been) than make less than 20/hr. Less is indentured servitude. And at 20/hr an employer is not getting my best effort and I'm taking off whenever I feel like doing anything else. For reference rent is ~2k here so 20/hr is barely scraping by and saving almost nothing.

In 9/10+ low wage jobs, hard work gets you nothing but more responsibility. Learned that from experience. I've only ever gotten meaningful raises by threatening to quit. I've lost count of how many raises promised during interviews didn't materialize until I've strategically threatened to leave.

Many of the lowest wage jobs are the most difficult (EMTs/paramedics, for example), it's actually above 6 figures where it seems the jobs get much easier. I have not seen much correlation between difficulty and wage.

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text Wow, shocking that what makes a wage livable depends heavily on the local cost of living. Does that really make it a silly metric to aim for? I aim for a livable wage (and will not work for less), and becoming insistent on it has made my life infinitely better.   Livable wage=area median 1b apartment rent*3   That wasn't hard at all. Arbitrary means not based on an objective distinction. What could be more objective than setting a living wage based on the biggest expense of living in a given…
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