Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by vorpalhex on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:25AM
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A major part of American politics is that the non-wealthy can participate.
This means we need to pay people like campaign workers enough to live so they don't need to be independently wealthy.
This doesn't extend to every person. There are volunteers who just seek donations and such.
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by realce on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:42AM
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IMO you should get tax credits for hours volunteered for political campaigns.
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by vorpalhex on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:50AM
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You can't really pay rent or buy groceries with tax credits, certainly not upfront.
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by oneplane on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:22AM
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So you'll pay for your house, food, and other living requirements with what then?
Every time someone tries to make a case for paying people not enough to survive they just seem to forget that externalities exist...
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by temp8964 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:28AM
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If you want to make more money, why don't you go work for the Mcdonal's then?
Oh no. I don't like to work for the Mcdonal's! I hate the job! I want to work for the campaign and it must pay me the same! It's a win-win for me!
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by sellyme on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:05AM
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> I want to work for the campaign and it must pay me the same!
Yes. That's rather the point of the concept of minimum wage.
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by ebiester on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:47AM
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There is a key difference between volunteers and campaign staff: Campaign staff are managers: they manage the volunteers and bring key competitive advantages to a campaign. Good campaign staff is the difference between winning and losing.
Campaign staff can work 60-80 hours a week during the life of a campaign. This is an actual job.
This is something really strange. If you work for a campaign, it is very very very very different from working for the Mcdonal's. You work for a campaign because you support its ideology, and you want it to win. You are not trying to make a living by working for a campaign.
I would even say, you are not working for the campaign, you are working for yourself! It's like you are donating to the campaign with your own labor. The relationship between you and the campaign is mutually beneficial. The campaign gets help from you, and you get to use the campaign to fulfil your personal belief. There is no way for you to get the same kind of fulfilment by working in the Mcdonal's. The campaign provides you a platform to express your ideology, a network to find ideological friends.
So, no, you are not exploited by the campaign, nor is the campaign exploited by you. It is a voluntary exchange between you and the campaign for mutual benefits.