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Originally Posted by cam_calderon
How would you quantify or mandate wages in line with that position?
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Somehow tying them directly to rent, no, that doesn't work. I mean, I am pro Recovery UBI, but that's a different discussion entirely. I was more saying that if you pay that little for a full time job, you don't pay enough. You can't argue this is what the market is willing to pay if they're being forced back to work by the Government, that kind of negates any fair bargaining and doesn't make it comparable to a part time burger flipping job. If your business can't survive without under paying people then it probably shouldn't keep going, and you shouldn't require government subsidies and labor rules in your favour to continue.
Edit: I should add, I'm not interested in turning this into the classic 'at what arbitrary skill level should people be able to afford rent and groceries' discussion that we've had a million times on CP because that's a rabbit hole for another thread.