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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by bsagdiyev on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:28AM (#28432652)
Before we left San Diego I offered quite a few times to go in, unpaid, to help out. This man works 6 days a week, open to close. I don’t know what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time.
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by Dudeman112 on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:03AM (#28432853)
>what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time

Some people around these parts have ardently defended that 100k USD is poverty wage and that having a net worth of 1 million doesn't make you rich.

So I'm inclined to definitely not believe "working class".

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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by Ma8ee on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:58AM (#28441086)
I must have missed those people. People here are in general not poor, but most are neither completely out of touch.
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by tluyben2 on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:10AM (#28432906)
Actually helping run this place showed me how skewed this world is. I met many hospitality service owners, small ones mostly and most of them are lucky to take 5-10k profit in a year in total: that while most people I know in software and management get angry when they cannot go on multiple 10k vacations a year...
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by filoeleven on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:43PM (#28439327)
How is he living in San Diego on $416 / mo?
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by bsagdiyev on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:44AM (#28443166)
He isn’t, him and his wife earn around 40k total before tax. It’s possible but it isn’t fun. I talk about it elsewhere in the comments. She works as a preschool teacher.
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