#livingwage
Activists Are Spamming Businessesโ Receipt Printers With โAntiworkโ Manifestos
Someone or multiple people are blasting โantiworkโ manifestos to receipt printers at businesses around the world, according to people who claim to have seen the printed manifesto, dozens of posts on Reddit, and a cybersecurity company that is analyzing network traffic to insecure printers.
โARE YOU BEING UNDERPAID?โ one of the manifestos read, according to several screenshots posted on Reddit and Twitter. โYou have a protected LEGAL RIGHT to discuss your pay with your coworkers. [...] POVERTY WAGES only exist because people are โwillingโ to work for them.โ ...
N.Y.C. Food Delivery Workers Would See Better Pay Under New Bills
#deliveryservices #mobileapplications #regulationandderegulationofindustry #workplacehazardsandviolations #wagesandsalaries #lawandlegislation #newyorkcity #doordashmobileapp #grubhubinc #ubereats #citycouncilnyc #livingwage #food #news
A nationwide wave of evictions threatens more than six million families
The maps on this NYTimes piece are sobering.
Discussions often portray housing affordability as a San Francisco, or tech-region, or coastal section. The map on this article (enable JS to view) clearly shows that it is not: housing precarity as measured by households owing back rent is pervasive across the US, and especially concentrated well away from tech hot-spots: California's inland valleys, the deep south, a large swath of (very non-urban) South Dakota, likewise much of New Mexico. There are counties with high-delinquency rates in virtually every state.
The total accrued debt is $23 billion, $2,300 per household (this in a country in which half of all households cannot pay a $400 unexpected expense). A second map shows the amounts owed by household --- that shifts slightly more coastal (where rents are in fact higher in nominal terms) but again shows a pervasive problem.
It's not merely one of the too-common HN canard "you have no right to live in one of the most expensive region" --- this is unaffordability of a fundamental Maslovian need across an entire country. Something is very badly broken with how the US chooses to provision and manage its housing, and incomes (wages, pensions, welfare support).
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/opinion/covid-eviction-moratorium.html
Paywall: https://archive.is/742qv
#Housing #Poverty #Inequality #Evictions #Rent #Renting #LivingWage #Covid19
when workers demand a living wage...
#livingwage #raisethewage #workers #universalbasicincome #folded #frontlineworkers
take this shit job and shove it...
#shitjobs #fuckoff #payus #cancercapitalism #livingwage #universalbasicincome #tweet #screenshot
suicide prevention...
#suicide #prevention #housing #affordable #livingwage #raisethewage #universalhealthcarenow #usa #tweet #screenshot
Online hobbies pursued for fun and profit ... well, just fun: arguing with people who've not read Adam Smith
Person 1: If you believe [Smith], what does that mean for labor?
Homo economicus illiteratus: It means you are fairly compensated for your work and you pay fair prices for the product of other people's work.
Space Alien Cat: He might disagree: "in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying....[m]any would not be able to find employment even upon these hard terms, but would either starve, or be driven to seek a subsistence either by begging, or by the perpetration perhaps of the greatest enormities. Want, famine, and mortality would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes...."
... and so forth.
Adam Smith on living wage, national wealth, growth, and decline
I've previously quoted Smith on wages, in the context of why allowing below-subsistence pay is effectively a welfare subsidy to businesses which are either otherwise non-competitive or which can extract profit due to their political leverage.
He has a number of additional words (as he typically does) on the subject which are quite revealing on the nature of national economic vitality, size, and decline. Recall that Smith was published in 1776. His words remain highly relevant.
I've found particularly interesting Adam Smith's own commentary on what a minimum wage ought to be in Wealth of Nations, a book as David Brin has been saying for quite some time, far more liberals, and conservatives, should actually read. Everyone else as well...
Continued at the dreddit