Reply #47: A living wage is at least $12.00 an hour

[Terry in Austin]

If you work for a living, you should get the wages for a living, simple as that. If we can't do that, then what we have is a social contract that's downright unconscionable. (But I guess we already suspected as much!)

All this smoke about farm workers being uneducated, etc., etc. totally misses the point. It's also kind of sad and brainwashed.

Man, if anything, the crappier jobs ought to pay more! Mr./Ms. MBA sitting in a comfy chair pushing electrons and solving interesting problems get rewarded in many ways besides money.