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defrogWell, I was going to stop at three for this series, but the last episode was a bit of a downer, and who wants to go out like that?
I mean sure, the point of capitalism is that the rich get richer and the poor don’t, but I don’t mean to imply that minimum-wage work is a bad thing. It can be fun, even.
Provided that you live in a They Might Be Giants fan video.
FUN FACT: Hong Kong doesn’t have a minimum wage, though it’s been under discussion for years. As usual, the people against it are business owners, the Cato Insititute and other people who have well-paying salaried jobs, although some workers are also against it because they know full well that their employers would just as soon sack them as pay them more, and they figure it’s better to have a job that pays peanuts than to have no job whatsoever.
Imagine that.
The exception, incidentally, is migrant domestic helpers (you may know them as “maids”) from the Philippines and Indonesia, whose wages are set by the govt. And it’s peanuts for the hours they put in. I should know – we used to hire them back when we had a 90+-year-old aunt to take care of, and ...
Damn. I’m bumming you out again, aren’t I? That’s not what I was shooting for. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all. I’ll do better tomorrow, I promise.
Crack the whip,
This is dF
I mean sure, the point of capitalism is that the rich get richer and the poor don’t, but I don’t mean to imply that minimum-wage work is a bad thing. It can be fun, even.
Provided that you live in a They Might Be Giants fan video.
FUN FACT: Hong Kong doesn’t have a minimum wage, though it’s been under discussion for years. As usual, the people against it are business owners, the Cato Insititute and other people who have well-paying salaried jobs, although some workers are also against it because they know full well that their employers would just as soon sack them as pay them more, and they figure it’s better to have a job that pays peanuts than to have no job whatsoever.
Imagine that.
The exception, incidentally, is migrant domestic helpers (you may know them as “maids”) from the Philippines and Indonesia, whose wages are set by the govt. And it’s peanuts for the hours they put in. I should know – we used to hire them back when we had a 90+-year-old aunt to take care of, and ...
Damn. I’m bumming you out again, aren’t I? That’s not what I was shooting for. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all. I’ll do better tomorrow, I promise.
Crack the whip,
This is dF
