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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Again, the legal minimum wage is not always an accurate barometer of what is or isn’t a decent or reasonable wage.
I don’t know if you guys know what the words obscene or absurd mean but the wages he was getting paid were not out of the norm of what many other “unskilled” manual labour jobs were paying at the time. Maybe you’re just not aware of that?
By your theory you’d have to consider someone earning double the minimum wage of $7/hour in both 2005 and 2006 to be receiving an “obscenely” or “absurdly” high wage during both of those years, ignoring all inflation related factors such as housing prices in Calgary going from an average of around $250k in 2005 to around $350k in 2006.
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I think you're hung up on the wrong thing here.