Comment on How To Structure Society Around Living Wage Rates?
Monarque@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
It does not make that much sense to me that the actual living wage is $24/hour.
There really is no such thing as a single living wage that makes sense for the whole of the US. This makes even less sense for the entirety of Europe. Of course, EU regulations on wages do not affect every part of it, but it is the fact that they do have a single interest rate for the whole of the EU, which grossly impacts local real estate markets and the likes.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
maybe not $24, but I imagine some approximation can be calculated, maybe in cities or states.
So many people only see things through a lens of violence, or forcing people to pay certain amounts using the law
I would like to see a voluntary calculation and breakdown of amounts that people think necessary for living wages and family wages (family wages were thought to be the amount a man needed to provide for a wife and ~3 children I think), then they could try to persuade others of the amount if they think that to be reasonable
of course the feminists will reeeeee about structuring society around family wages (paying men more to provide for their families, and working to educate men more to be able to secure such wages).
really this conversation has only come up I think because the economy has been allowed to become so degraded; the boomers didn't have it this way