Now the fight for a $26 minimum wage is on. Why stop there? If 26 is good, wouldn’t $100 an hour be better? Why not $500 an hour?
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Real Minimum Wage
Last year, Sam’s Club bowed to pressure and increased their minimum wage to $16 per hour. Proving that the minimum wage is actually zero, the company announced this week that they will be eliminating all Read more…
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it's just Boris · August 31, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Of course. Once you start down that path, the sky is the limit.
It reminds me of the old joke about Churchill and the prostitute.
joe · August 31, 2021 at 6:42 pm
yes, because i want to pay $40 for my big mac and fries…
Donn the Draughtsman · September 1, 2021 at 5:10 am
After politely telling a Kroger a Kroger manager who wanted to have me come work for them that I wasn’t interested, he insisted that they pay the most of any grocery chain in the region(they don’t; ask my wife).
Annoyed, I told him that he would have to offer me what I’m on my current contract assignment as a NX CAD designer, technical lead. He told me that would be no problem, but almost fainted when I showed him my paystub.
I’m going to shoot for a $50/hr minimum wage, but I’d be taking a pay cut. (40 years drafting experience, and high grades from clients) LOL!
Rev. Sensing has a good post on this at Sensingonline.blogspot.com.
DMLMD · September 1, 2021 at 9:15 am
OMG… a failure of basic economic understanding…
Anyone with money saved away (cash, stock, annuity, etc)should be looking for Dean Baker and stop him before he devalues them more effectively than a hacker in your on-line bank account.
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