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- The United States is not California. Here [1] are the US poverty lines. For 1 person, it's $12,490. - $20,800 a year puts you ahead of 26% of earners in the

by rjf72 8y ago

- The United States is not California. Here [1] are the US poverty lines. For 1 person, it's $12,490. - $20,800 a year puts you ahead of 26% of earners in the US. [2] - The guy making your $5 latte gets on average about $9/hour [3]. - A private company engaging in behavior to create jobs and offer increased value to their customers is not the "language of socialism." [1] - https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines [2] - https://dqydj.com/united-states-income-brackets-percentiles/ https://dqydj.com/united-states-income-brackets-percentiles/ [3] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Starbucks-Hourly-Pay-E2202.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Starbucks-Hourly-Pay-E2...

KirinDave 8y ago
Firstly, you suggested: > Let's hire some low wage employees to spend just 1 hour per app which is generally enough time to determine if an app is at all legitimate. That's obviously 200,000 man hours. But folks have already been down this road, and the ugly fact is that you can't source folks to do work like this outside of metropolitan areas. This is why already this work is outsourced to areas where low wages are common but infrastructure is present. And you'll find, as several businesses I've worked with, that the difficulty of validating these jobs is very high. Turns out, you essentially get half the work you'd think you would. Secondly: > The United States is not California. Here [1] are the US poverty lines. For 1 person, it's $12,490. Sorry, I just assumed an average family of three with a single wage earner as the default, which is like $20.5k for most guidelines I've read. [0] > - A private company engaging in behavior to create jobs and offer increased value to their customers is not the "language of socialism." It absolutely is, and its historical success in America is exactly why capitalists have adopted it as a talking point even when it's not actually their goal in any scenario. [0]: I googled https://q1medicare.com/q1group/MedicareAdvantagePartD/Blog.php?blog=2018-Federal-Poverty-Level-Guidelines--FPL---2018-2019-LIS-Qualifications-and-Benefits&blog_id=674&category_id=8 https://q1medicare.com/q1group/MedicareAdvantagePartD/Blog.p... before I wrote my post.

by rjf72 8y ago

KirinDave 8y ago

Firstly, you suggested: > Let's hire some low wage employees to spend just 1 hour per app which is generally enough time to determine if an app is at all legitimate. That's obviously 200,000 man hours. But folks have already been down this road, and the ugly fact is that you can't source folks to do work like this outside of metropolitan areas. This is why already this work is outsourced to areas where low wages are common but infrastructure is present. And you'll find, as several businesses I've worked with, that the difficulty of validating these jobs is very high. Turns out, you essentially get half the work you'd think you would. Secondly: > The United States is not California. Here [1] are the US poverty lines. For 1 person, it's $12,490. Sorry, I just assumed an average family of three with a single wage earner as the default, which is like $20.5k for most guidelines I've read. [0] > - A private company engaging in behavior to create jobs and offer increased value to their customers is not the "language of socialism." It absolutely is, and its historical success in America is exactly why capitalists have adopted it as a talking point even when it's not actually their goal in any scenario. [0]: I googled https://q1medicare.com/q1group/MedicareAdvantagePartD/Blog.php?blog=2018-Federal-Poverty-Level-Guidelines--FPL---2018-2019-LIS-Qualifications-and-Benefits&blog_id=674&category_id=8 https://q1medicare.com/q1group/MedicareAdvantagePartD/Blog.p... before I wrote my post.