• Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When I was a teen. I was making more money working there than I made ten years after

      Okay, and?

      He paid well for the region but it wasn’t a lot

      So, he chose to not pay a lot because he could get away with it due to the conditions your community was already forced into. And?

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I wouldn’t say he under paid

          You already did say that he did not pay a lot.

          He could have paid the minimum wage but he didn’t

          And I could have been assaulting random people, but I don’t do that. Heap laurels upon me now.

          The one job I had 15 years later in the same town paid me 3$/hr to be a server and busboy

          Going to note that you being paid so little is a consequence of extremely rich people like your friend existing as a class in your economy.

            • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              2 months ago

              This is rather silly.

              Capitalists push to have your wages be lower and lower, and you keep trying to defend them.
              Meanwhile, we already know that their abolition produces massive improvements in the standards of living.

                • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  I got an education that made my value as employee explode. My last job paid over $65/hr because of my worth

                  Kid, you were paid that not because of ‘your worth’, but because of your position. You can have any education and have any sort of skills and still be paid 3$ per hour.

                  Also, again, you present individual anecdotes to claim that the system as a whole does not work as described. Your education is very clearly lacking.

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          He paid 3x the minimum wage at the time

          Cool. He paid more than the extremely low minimum wage (and still did not pay much). I too don’t do the absolute worst things that I might be allowed to do. Now what?