Amazon will raise its minimum wage for employees to $15 (what about contractors?)

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@anon61833566

So you feel a teenager working 10-12 hours at McDonald’s should be paid a “living wage” the same as the 42 yr old working an hourly position in a call center at Big Bank Corp who supports a family of 4?

This does not go well with:

@anon61833566

Wages are not determined on what the individual’s time is worth…they are determined on what the value of the work is worth. Would you pay the dishwasher in the back of the kitchen the same as the sous chef?

And the second quote is either a fairly impressive misunderstanding of what I wrote or a horrendous misstatement of what I wrote.

I stated that if you are paying someone by the hour, that indicates that the person making the payment has decided that an hour of that work is worth that amount.

As @anotherone says if two people are doing the same work, that work is worth the same regardless of the workers’ respective outgoings and situations in life.

You’ve valued the work, so pay for it.

@anon61833566

And therein is the point…this is about the minimum wage floor. Not a ceiling or guidelines around what is considered a living wage.

They ought to be the same.