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Thread ID: 129509	2013-02-25 23:37:00	Minimum wage rise - thnak goodness it was ony 25cents	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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1330051	2013-02-26 01:35:00	Because $550.00 is just sooooo much to live on eh! Before you know it these plebs will want the vote!!!!	ruup (1827)
1330052	2013-02-26 01:44:00	All the euro signs are gone weird and the admin does not allow editing after 10 minutes...	Sanco (683)
1330053	2013-02-26 01:44:00	Because $550.00 is just sooooo much to live on eh! Before you know it these plebs will want the vote!!!! Lol	Sanco (683)
1330054	2013-02-26 01:59:00	All the euro signs are gone weird and the admin does not allow editing after 10 minutes... I think I fixed it, but let me know if I put in any of the symbols incorrectly?	Zara Baxter (16260)
1330055	2013-02-26 02:13:00	The UK $11.14 . ANd look what things cost over there......food and so on. Even tradesmen......1/2 day work 120 pounds......you can't just compare the amount...	pctek (84)
1330056	2013-02-26 02:22:00	digby, while I do agree with you. It's just not manufacturing jobs that pay min wage. Ask someone that works in a rest home wiping old people's backsides what their earn an hour, its min wage. That job won't be outsorced. And I'm sure not many people here would do it. In oz the same workers are getting mid to low 20s. I read one of those futurist books and the guy said there are not going to many jobs that cannot be outsourced. Home help health care elderly was one for them, then other one from memory was hair dressing. But they are making robots in Japan to do basic chores for older people, and be a companion for them (as for wiping their nether regions etc I'd like a Dalek accent one - Bend Over!")	Digby (677)
1330057	2013-02-26 02:23:00	digby, while I do agree with you. It's just not manufacturing jobs that pay min wage. Ask someone that works in a rest home wiping old people's backsides what their earn an hour, its min wage. That job won't be outsorced. And I'm sure not many people here would do it. In oz the same workers are getting mid to low 20s. It's already outsourced to immigrants from 3rd world countries who will quite happily work for the min wage..	paulw (1826)
1330058	2013-02-26 02:48:00	I think I fixed it, but let me know if I put in any of the symbols incorrectly? Thank you Zara, stellar work.	Sanco (683)
1330059	2013-02-26 02:52:00	Yeah pctek makes a good point, you have to compare the wage in context to cost of living or it's meaningless. A few years ago I was made redundant and had to survive on minimum wage for a year. It was quite a shock to lose so much income but with no dependants and only a small mortgage I managed, just. I had no disposable income at all. If I had to support a family it'd have been very tough.	dugimodo (138)
1330060	2013-02-26 03:02:00	The issue with a mandated minimum wage is that the income for the business has to be sufficient to support it, while including other costs as well as a margin of profit for the business-owner/shareholder (why else would someone be in business?) . Perhaps the issue is more around an expectation from business owners/shareholders that their profit on sales increases at ever increasing rates every year . Prices go up (to support larger profits and increased wages), then workers need to be paid more to afford to buy stuff . Then businesses need to put up prices to cover the increased costs of wages . Vicious cycle . . . Perhaps if we were more self-sufficient and didn't need to buy the latest gadget every few months (says the man who is getting a Nexus 4 tomorrow! :p) . . . But then the global economy would falter (even worse than recently) and we'd be back to feudalism and barter in the blink of an eye . Just what the Greens want!!!	johcar (6283)
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