Entries tagged 'income'




  • Since when does a corporation's right to make money, trump a human's right to eat?
    This was posted as a comment elsewhere, but I thought I'd share it: There are so many issues that need to be addressed with precarity and wages; not the least of them bein
  • New Wage Order
    I woke up around 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. I have to work today. I'm not particularly worried about this, as I think it'll be like Christmas Day and Boxing Day - d
  • Simple Math
    Today I can only afford to buy one of the things you sell; but if they raise the minimum wage to something liveable, then I will be able to buy two or three of the things
  • Wages, Income, Being Poor, Purchasing Power, The Nature of Work
    There's this idea that the reason people get paid a minimum wage, is because their work is of no value. They, in effect, *deserve* to get paid so little. That choice, that