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The article literally talked about Dunkin’ Donuts and Amazon being higher paying.

• danaris 4y ago
  Higher paying than what? Than other places you can get jobs now? The most conservative estimate I've seen shows that if the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation over the past 50 years, it would be over $21/hour now. The minimum wage. From what I've seen, Dunkin and Amazon* pay a $15 minimum wage—which, yes, is better than many other places now, but not compared to what you could expect to get for similar jobs several decades ago (adjusted for inflation). And I haven't heard anything one way or the other about Dunkin, but Amazon is actively hostile to unions, which were the strong sword and shield of blue collar workers like them back when they could expect pensions and such—not at all coincidentally. * For those actually designated employees; I'm given to understand that Amazon also does all sorts of shenanigans to designate various people who work for them as contractors of some type.
  • xboxnolifes 4y ago
    > Higher paying than what? Than other places you can get jobs now? Yes. That's the only metric that matters for most people.
    • danaris 4y ago
      Possibly, but the person I replied to was specifically talking about how pay had changed over time.