Of course one difficulty is that if wages go up, rents will soon follow. Just a different bunch of assholes exploiting whomever they can.
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands”
-@ Will Rogers
