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Inflated minum wagesare costing worker in Seatle about 125.00 bucks a week with less hours. So much trying to prop up a failed concept that employers do not support!
Inflated rents are costing dwellers umpteen gazillion dollars in Seattle.
If you are asking to be paid more than you are worth to them, you will not be working very much.
It is a balance.
There is a breaking point.
If price is higher, there better be better service and quality. Or you are going to go out of business quick.
When I was young, I worked on low price and service... quality went out the window. Then as I got more experience and skills, I went to low price and quality, my ability to service everyone quickly was no longer existent. I was booked & backlogged for months on end, and I made less money, per hour worked in the long run.
Now, as I'm really wise, knowledgeable and have insane hand skills and abilities, I provide the highest quality at the highest prices around.
I do not work everyday, maybe not every week. But when I do work, I end up making what I always have in a year....
Work smarter, not harder.
Landlords are asking to be paid more than they are worth, and they can pull it off because their friends in government keep the supply of housing artificially low.
When I talk about the "rest of the world" , I'm talking about the realities of the working world in America...., not Europe etc.
Everyone else, apart from government workers and union members have to get ahead in life on their own merit and their own hard work.
Why should someone who makes minimum wage get an arbitrary raise, whether they deserve it or not, when someone who worked his way up from minimum wage and makes maybe $16.00 an hour after years of putting his time and effort not only gets diddly squat but actually gets a pay cut in his buying power?
As usual, the Progressives trying to make life "fair" for some people necessitates screwing someone else.
The same reason landlords should get an arbitrary raise every time they raise the rent?
I remember very well the issues in Santa Monica many years ago, concerning the issue of Rent Control.
Everything is subject to review, based on the changing dynamics in areas, but need not set a precedent of removal of an entire program or systems within programs. ( that fight raged for years, maybe its still going on, I've not followed in the areas for years).
When Santa Monica became a very high income community, that indicated that adjustments were necessary to make "Fairness"... It was not fair to the Landlords, to have their unit remain below the generalized Increased Income Standards of the Area. This has to be "carefully managed" to avoid... Gentrification as a promoted model to displace people. But in the case of Santa Monica, 'everything about the city" became elevated in value, wage and cost, thus making the elements of modification to its position on the Rent Control Matter, subject to review, even if it was to sustain being Rent Control as not to allow opt out, then it should have been adjusted to what is Fair Market Value in a situation where the valuation had gone from a nominal working income to a higher level of executive, business owners and entertainers income model. Which is far removed over what was Santa Monica in the earlier times.
Things change...
There were too people who abused it. who got into the sub-leasing game, which was disadvantageous to the original landlord.
I would not try to move to San Francisco's Mod Areas on the Salary of a dishwasher regardless of the notoriety of the establishment I worked. (I am not knocking the dishwasher, because I believe all jobs are to be respected as being a job)
Wait...so if I'm a poor person and people with more money move into my neighborhood, I should have to pay more because of the generalized increased income of other people?
There's certainly nothing wrong with helping others, and Conservatives prove that by consistently give more to charity than Liberals even think of giving.
The problem comes when Liberals want to legislate mandatory "charity" through the force of government ....always with other people's money of course.
You want to help others? Great!!
You want to demand that I do the same?........not so much.
If you rob me at gunpoint, it makes no difference if you use the money for selfish or noble purposes, theft is still theft.
If people want $15.00/hr , then they need to do what's necessary to make themselves worth $15.00/hr to an employer.
Because there is no law that government can pass that can do that for them.
You know who is really getting robbed all of us are by businesses who pay such a low wage that our taxes have to make up the rest to pay for welfare and food stamps. Why are you not mad at them?
If republican right-wingers had their way, we would all be poor working for like $2/hour in a highly stratified Mexico-style society.
They want to take us back to the 1800's, no thx Jeff
If republican right-wingers had their way, we would all be poor working for like $2/hour in a highly stratified Mexico-style society.
They want to take us back to the 1800's, no thx Jeff
You get paid according to your specific skill, knowledge and performance, not a fake economy (min wage, unions) because you can't afford to buy a house and new car working as a burger flipper.
St. Louis shouldn't have done something they knew the legislature would reverse. St. Louis leaders were irresponsible.
And Missouri itself was just reversed by the Supreme Court in the playground case. That is not a good argument. We have multiple levels of government and we know this and Missouri legislators knew this and a carve out for St. Louis was easy in this case.
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