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Sometimes I feel like congress and representatives should make the minimum wage of the area they represent. Might encourage them to actually improve things for

• kesselvon 5y ago
  It's a good way to only get the rich to become federal politicians. Congress gets paid like 174k a year. Sure, it's a lot of money compared to the US median, but anyone who can get elected to Congress can earn that elsewhere. For tech, 174k isn't even a big salary; we're talking an industry where a starting SE salary at a FAANG is around there. That's not a huge paycheck for a 24/7 job like federal politics.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Might encourage them to actually improve things for the people. The history of unpaid and low-paid legislatures (of which there is quite a lot) does not really support this idea.
• alexashka 5y ago
  170k is already a functional equivalent of the minimum wage, relative to the power they yield. You're describing what we already have. The argument being made is that if you're going to pay people a low wage, they'll just increase it by trading some of the power they yield in exchange for money for themselves, which is the problem we're trying to solve for :)