Editor,
A "minimum" wage that is less than a "living" wage is an exercise in false magnanimity.
Seven twenty-five an hour amounts to a whopping $1,160 per month before taxes. Slice $140 off for taxes, and you're left with less than the rent on a studio apartment on a crummy block in San Francisco.
Why is one human being's time worth less than another's?
We all wind up with Michael Jackson and Walter Cronkite in the end, and yet for some unfathomable (capitalist) reason the people who labor hard for their daily bread make orders or magnitude less than fools who goof off most of the day and live off the labor of others.
Why does living off of other people's labor pay more than living off your own? Is living off of other people's labor "smart?" Or is it just plain mean, and people get away with it because the people who do that own the chips in this casino?
re: "Where the Jobs Are" (7/24/2009)
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