Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446

Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by piva00 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:00PM (#16880555)

And that is your problem, your basic economics doesn't necessarily need to be the only way that the world works.

Marketable skills should be better paid? Of course. Should it pay 10~15x more to be writing scripts at Google than to be frying burgers at some place? I don't think so.

If you care about people you should care that everyone has a minimum liveable wage, not that some should suffer because they can't/won't learn a high paying skill. What if instead of 10 to 15x a job at Google paid 5x what a burger flipper earns? It's still a quite good salary, incentive enough to not stop people from trying to learn better paying skills and would make the lives of people who aren't at that level a bit more comfortable.

Remember the human.

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by pravinva on Friday April 20, 2018 @09:22AM (#16884508)

Some perspective please. At 14 dollars an hour, these workers are in the top 1 percentof all human beings on earth. Privileged, even, one could say

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by darepublic on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:56PM (#16881173)

What if minimum wage causes less people to be hired.

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by piva00 on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:05AM (#16883271)

Why that doesn't happen in a bunch of other developed economies then? What makes the US so special and different?

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by darepublic on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:50AM (#16883988)

For the purpose of discussion do you mind giving me an example of such a country

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by Bromskloss on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:10AM (#16882733)

> Should it pay 10~15x more to be writing scripts at Google than to be frying burgers at some place?

What is this "should" you speak of?

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by piva00 on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:04AM (#16883268)

Should as in "is it ethical and responsible for a society to have this kind of imbalance?".

I sincerely don't understand if this was a jab towards me on some kind of "invisible hand of the market" argument or the complete opposite.

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Re:Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446 by Bromskloss on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:53AM (#16883490)

> I sincerely don't understand if this was a jab towards me on some kind of "invisible hand of the market" argument or the complete opposite.

Between those two, it was the former. What I mean is that I don't see that people are obliged (_i.e._ should) trade with each other at all. If they nevertheless choose to do so, I don't see that every good or service should cost the same, or have a maximum difference in price.

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