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Per BLS, 80.4 million workers make an hourly wage, with 1.8 million at or below at the federal minimum. [0] It is kind of fascinating that people have such wil
by closeparen 6y ago
Per BLS, 80.4 million workers make an hourly wage, with 1.8 million at or below at the federal minimum. [0]
It is kind of fascinating that people have such wildly different ideas about what the objective facts are, and how that must flow downstream into their worldviews and politics. Between 51.6% and 2.3% is not a small difference! Those are very different worlds we could be living in!
[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#:~:text=The%20percentage%20of%20hourly%20paid,collected%20on%20a%20regular%20basis https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#....
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoIt is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. On the one hand, I am hoping the person was simply quoting something they heard in a rant online. On the other hand, I am hoping it is just a case of misreading available BLS data. Neither is exactly ideal and both paint rather sad picture of how we interpret reality.