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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Set minimum wage for any in-office position to match the amount required to purchase a house within 15 minutes average transit to the office.
Min 250k salary in Seattle lol.
Yeah. That's exactly what it should be, and would like up correctly with what C level people have given themselves in pay raises over the past decade.
nonono, if all the lowly peasants get a comfortable wage, how would execs be able to afford their second summer homes? Won't someone think of them?
Seattle should build more walkable neighborhoods with a metro, lol.
God yes please
Some people just want to watch the world burn. I love it haha
Sometimes the old has to be burned down to prepare the ground for new growth.
I say it, knowing that there's no possibility of it happening in the current day but, really, it's the only way that's fair for both sides and removes most potential discriminatory policies. If a business can't afford to pay its workers enough to have a decent life, they can't afford to be in business.
Or reform land and housing so the landlord grifters stop fucking everyone over simply for having their name in a registry of who owns what.
Porque no los dos?
So that's, what, $1,500,000 per hour?
I'm not sure what area has average cost of houses around $2.8B but, if that's the cost, sure. That is, of you're not trying to imply that the "Wage-Price Spiral" exists, despite all evidence contrary.