An hour spent commuting is 1/16th of your daily life, and that hour is by far the biggest risk to your life every day. You should be getting triple pay to ameliorate the hazard risk it represents.

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    You’re out of your mind if you think a $300k salary for every working citizen is feasible. Paying that out would require $53 trillion, which is more than our GDP.

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      That’s the thing though, the number doesn’t matter.

      We have people starving and then we have people traveling to the other side of the planet to throw a wedding that could feed millions of people.

      Fuck a number, fuck money, eat the rich then we can all eat and live wherever we want.

      Sometimes I think about trying to buy a tiny home or a single wide, and then 5 seconds later, I realize that its just not going to fucking happen. That’s an insane thought. If we don’t start hitting the streets soon, we’re all going to lose.

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      The company is probably going to charge their customers even more for the work you do in your working time.

      Someone already pays that money. The workers just don’t receive it.

      If everybody was self-employed, those are the prices that would be paid.

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        I agree up to the extent of the numbers. I think $50/hr is feasible if we make drastic changes to our economy. $150/hr simply cannot work with the country’s current number of workers and overall productivity.