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$15 an hour, are you kidding me? That's a lot. Hard to believe, to be honest. Could be just a positive PR article.
by cynicalsecurity 3y ago
$15 an hour, are you kidding me? That's a lot. Hard to believe, to be honest. Could be just a positive PR article.
- 6nf 3y agoAustralian McDonald’s money
- escapedmoose 3y agoBut no benefits :(
- ma2rten 3y agoIt's below minimum wage in California.
- KMnO4 3y agoAnd above minimum wage in Kansas, where they are located.
- falcolas 3y agoToo bad minimum wage doesn't mean "a wage you can live on", or that argument might mean something.
- ITB 3y agoLifestyle costs will always escape minimum wage because it’s such a huge lever that the entire economy gets propped up on higher min wages. The only way around it is for people to after jobs that earn a premium to minimum wage. I don’t think the bottom of the economic scale will ever be a pleasant please to be at.
- falcolas 3y agoI don't believe I'm talking about some kind of special lifestyle. I'm talking about living. As in being able to have a roof, sufficient nutritious food, heating, transportation, even some basic entertainment, all without having to hold multiple jobs.
- mirekrusin 3y agoCan you apply 10 times and automate it with GPT?
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago$15 was a living wage here in the upper Midwest a few years ago. Now I doubt it is. Most fast food restaurants pay about that much plus benefits. They used to pay closer to $10
- falcolas 3y agoIn Kansas City (whose cost of living is about 15% lower than the US median, and the home of the first person in the article) a 1br apartment would cost about half of the $15 an hour wages (pre-tax). I said it in another comment - inflation (and inflated corporate profits) has hit reality in the US like a truck. We need to adjust our mental models to match the new reality.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoRhetorical statements from yesteryear: 1) What would you do with a million dollars? Today's answer: Buy a house. 2) You've made it when you're making a six-figure salary. That $100k salary today is closer to a $50k salary in the 1990s.
- falcolas 3y ago> 1) What would you do with a million dollars? > Today's answer: Buy a house. In my hometown, that would put a down payment on a house anywhere in the city limits. The town population is under 100k. -_- Shit's changed so dramatically. Even a mere 15 years ago, you could get a townhome for under $150k. Certainly explains why restaurants are closing for a lack of help - the help can't afford to live within 50+ miles from there.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoYep. I didn't say you wouldn't have a long commute from your newly purchased house. :)
- femto113 3y agoI'm guessing a very small subset of trainers make that much. An awful lot of AI training is done via Mechanical Turk like systems that pay pennies per task. They may work out to more than $15/hour on a per task basis but rarely can anyone get a continuous flow of hundreds of tasks per hour, so grossing even $10/hour would be considered pretty exceptional. Edit to add reference [1]: "An analysis of the platform published in 2018 revealed that of the 3.8 million tasks analyzed, which were performed by 2676 workers, such workers earned a median hourly wage of about $2 an hour, while only 4 percent of workers earned more than $7.25 an hour" [1] https://www.ecomcrew.com/amazon-mechanical-turk https://www.ecomcrew.com/amazon-mechanical-turk
- jamilton 3y agoThat was my thought too. The previous wave of articles on this said part of their contractors were paid $2/hour: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/