The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers

Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers by aperson_hello on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:49AM (#32071667)

Minimum wage arguments are a red herring in this economy. No one except the young, disabled, and felons are getting paid minimum wage now. Looking at prevailing "low skill" wages, they more than doubled for starting positions in my area since 2010. From something like $8 in 2010 to something like $16-17 today.

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Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers by kennywinker on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:52AM (#32071718)

Do the young, disabled, and felons deserve to suffer so you can get a coffee for 50c cheaper?

And you forgot immigrants, the other large group working minimum wage jobs.

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Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers by aperson_hello on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:41PM (#32073356)

Good point re: immigrants! I was making an inflation/wages argument, not a value-based one here. The prevailing minimum wage (for 95% of "low skill" jobs) is significantly different than federal minimum wages.

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Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers by kennywinker on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:11PM (#32075751)

I think my point was actually a little off as well. Framing it as someone suffering for your cheap goods. Some things ARE like that. Fast fashion's $6 t-shirts come to mind. But service industry stuff like your cup of coffee - it's usually more like: does someone have to suffer so that you can get your cup of coffee and someone can become VERY rich off it.

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Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers by moe091 on Friday July 15, 2022 @10:56AM (#32108817)

that's just not true. Maybe in some areas, definitely not in others. Do you actually know a lot of people working at CVS or dollar stores or supermarkets, etc? Wawa is paying $15 an hour and every single other place in my area is significantly below that

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