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In reply to the discussion: "$16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy" [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)26. If you don't use the word, it gives those employers permission to keep
exploiting free labor. It's still unpaid labor. It exploits an underclass, which can't be really free when they are under this yoke of despair and poverty. Most slaves were not kept in chains incidentally. How could they get any work done? It's slavery any way you look at it. If you make it look nicer you cheapen the true value of a day's labor.
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"$16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy" [View all]
midnight
Feb 2013
OP
"Thirty million workers are making less today than they did in 1968, adjusted for inflation!”
midnight
Feb 2013
#2
It's pathetic that OP's like this get almost no interest on a supposedly liberal board n/t
Fumesucker
Feb 2013
#3
As someone who makes close to this wage, I'd only be offended if my wage did not increase as well
Nikia
Feb 2013
#6
people need to get over the ego thing and get satifaction from the job not the pay
ThomThom
Feb 2013
#29
yes! all our big local non-profits as well as some of our gov't (the library) are using slave labor
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#11
that's what i said in the first place. homeless shelters get government money & have all along.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#19
or maybe we should just go back to pre-reagan policies so we wouldn't have mass homelessness
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#32
I agree with everything except calling underpaying people a form of 'slavery. You present
pampango
Feb 2013
#23
Again I agree with much of that, but think that using the term 'slave' to describe underpaying
pampango
Feb 2013
#25
I agree with your goal and that calling underpaid labor 'slave labor' helps achieve it.
pampango
Feb 2013
#30
Except that I'm not misusing it. When we talk about labor in China or the Marianna
Cleita
Feb 2013
#31
last i heard there were 4 people looking for every job opening. UE = 7.8% and underemployment
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#15