Re:A $45 Android tablet
by qwerty888 on Sunday July 21, 2013 @08:59PM
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So minimum wage in Manhattan should be set at $50/hour?
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If it's impossible to survive in (or on, whatever) Manhattan for less than that, then yes. But I suspect there's a more flexible reality to the market than your question implies, given that people there already work for less than that and aren't dying in the streets as a result.
A minimum wage just means you can't decide one day that sales are down and now everyone makes 2 cents an hour to cover costs [1]. It means there should be an implicit minimum cost to maintaining a human workforce, because people need to eat.
[1]obviously not an economist
If there is 1 adult with 3 children it is close: $41.91
Re:A $45 Android tablet
by smileysteve on Sunday July 21, 2013 @09:32PM
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No,because rent in Harlem (a few train stops away) requires less to live on.