On 2023-04-02, John Bowes <
bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:
I doubt if anyone who supports minimum wage think things
through. Sure most on the minimum wage need a boost from
time to time. But every time government boosts the minimum
wage all it manages to do in reality is leave even more on
the minimum wage than before they raised it!
However the new min wage is higher. Hopefully those who were slightly above
the min wage will now have a arguement to get a pay rise.
Now lets have a look back in time to the days of Rob
Muldoon, the previous most hated PM, back then we got
dollar value pay rises. Sure those on the higher wages
bitched because they thought it was bugger all.
But to those at the lower end of the wage table it was
invariably bloody handy.
This was really just a form of increasing the low wages relative to the
higher wages folks.
Why did we go to a % pay increase system. Simply greed
by those on higher salaries. People like politicians!
Those who over the years have increased the gap between
the haves and those struggling to make ends meet.
Those who've left us in todays system with a vast divide
between the struggling and those cruising through life.
% wise or pay increases are all the same thing, it is about the amounts. $1
% extra in $100 is a a 1% wage rise. % tend to be used as they are more
meaningful.
Maybe it's time to go back to counting dollars instead
of percentages. We will/can never close the pay gap now
but we can be more honest about it surely...
Raising the min wage is about having enough money to live on. To keep them
out of poverty.
The fat cat syndrome is another ball park.
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