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Producing half a million boxes of cookies with 6 people had me wonder if people truly care so deeply that the cookies cost 99 cents. I made 35 euro in a 5 hour
by kingludite 8y ago
Producing half a million boxes of cookies with 6 people had me wonder if people truly care so deeply that the cookies cost 99 cents. I made 35 euro in a 5 hour shift.
I don't see a reason the company would go down if they paid the 6 employees 1000 or 2000 per day. I don't know about you but if I want the cookies I don't give a flying fuck if they cost either 99 cents or 1 euro. Does this behavior change when one earns more than 35 euro per day? I think it only changes when one buys more than 10 000 boxes of cookies. Then that 1 cent would be woah 100 euro - unacceptibal!
I think the minimum wage should be designed by dedicated government committee based on the price of the product and the amount of customers served.
I currently work a minimum wage job cleaning trains. I serve some crazy number of customers (I guestimate 100 k daily) who pay 50-100 euro for a ticket. If they paid 5 cent extra the cleaners could earn 1000 euro per day. Sounds like a joke but people are already paying this for cleaning the real question is why they aren't getting what they paid for.
Its all culture, it has nothing to do with what things cost nor what they are worth. Its just like this idea that people doing brutal physical labor should also work 8 hours and work that job till they are 80 - as if that is even possible.
I really think we need a committee who with a serious face have to sign off on each job. Give them nice bonuses that they have to pay back if their estimates didn't work.
- dnautics 8y agoHow do you decide that the "estimates didn't work"? Maybe we would make a dedicated committee for deciding if the minimum wage committee should keep their bonuses, and then a committee for that etc.
- chrissnell 8y agoBusinesses will pay an employee what that employee can get if they walk across the street and take a job. There are altruistic employers that pay more but this would never fly at a public company or government agency where the business owners are you and me.
- hopler 8y agoGovernment commonly pays people far more than competitive, usually in the form of extra paid hours for nonwork, at the office or in pensions.