A lot of time that doesn’t even matter much. A lot of what gig app companies do is straight up illegal fraud. That’s even after they bought themselves a law to allow them to abuse their workers 1000 different ways legally.

Banks constantly charge illegal fees and commit all kinds of fraud. Sometimes they are fined but mostly they just get away with it.

And so on.

Edit: news flash-- we don’t live in a civilized society and there is no rule of law.

Apparently 30% at the time the current minimum wage laws were passed. Sad really.

We are about 2 generations past that being a viable fix. Minimum wage could never be set to a livable one because food and housing are so overinflated. You would have to implode the entire economy. The only way to fix the mess we are in is to transfer the wealth back from where it was originally stolen. Since that’s not on the table the only thing left is to overthrow the government. Just facts.

California minimum wage is $15. But if you burn 4 gallons of gas every day commuting to and from work that’s still 2 hours a day wasted on gas. Then rent for your one bedroom apartment is $1800 so that’s another 30 hours a week, 40 hours a week after tax is taken out. Then did you want to eat? That’s another 15 hours a week…

Of course so many women can’t breastfeed naturally because they have been on hormone pills since puberty. Every time capitalism creates a solution they create ten more problems.

By mainlining TikTok.

You can get a proper hotel suite with full shower, king size bed, mini fridge, and tv with HBO, and wifi for that price. Why would you pay for a quarter-size bunk?

How does someone be a nuisance to capitalism? All I can think of is pitching a tent in a posh neighborhood, trashcan fires, loud music :)

So she couldn’t be a doctor because she had a medical condition in her youth? Wow.

And the owner takes that 34000/mo rent, pays their 6000/mo mortgage, and pockets the rest.

What utter bullshit. US unemployment / underemployment is close to 25%. If you compare wages to cost of living underemployment is more like 65-75%.

What happens when you miss your neuralink payment?

You just know there’s some rotten kid whining to his mom that he won’t eat the tacos unless it has star wars lettuce in it.

Mandatory Minimum Profit Sharing is even better than minimum wage. Because then it’s tied to an individual business, and there can be no complaints that it would put them out of business. Because if their business is failing so hard it can’t turn a profit then that would mean they are allowed to pay workers less, but if no worker agrees to that low of a wage then that business deserves to fail. If instead they are lying and have big profits, they are forced to pay the workers more. It then actually becomes a free labor market.

Yes if you do the math it’s $24. But that’s using the Fight For 15 protest organization as a starting point. If you go by historical minimum wage, it’s actually supposed to be $29 now.

Edit: Also, FWIW, a minimum wage that isn’t localized by state economies and tied to inflation is kind of worthless.

Maybe mooltipass does what you are looking for? It’s open source hardware too.

Probably government kickbacks from Nicaragua.

Grocery workers fight grocery stores for fair pay. Grocery stores have very thin profit margins because most of it goes to food distributors and real estate / energy costs. Food distributors have very thin margins because most of their profits goes to producers and real estate / energy costs. Producers have very thin margins because most of their profits go to companies like Monsanto and Con Agra.

There are institutions and large shareholders of institutions who own shares in every step of that chain and extract all the profits so that the workers at every stage have absolutely nothing relatively even though they are doing all the…ehm… Work.

So yes. Very much late stage capitalism story. There are few things worse than food supply. Healthcare is the biggest contender surely.

No evil is ever necessary.

If they didn’t have a fediverse account 5 years ago, they’re a dead and pointless organization. It’s not like this stuff is new.