This is a crazy take. It’s not the company’s responsibility to provide a safety net. It’s the government’s and the government should collect taxes to do so.

This is a crazy take. It’s not the company’s responsibility to provide a safety net. It’s the government’s and the government should collect taxes to do so. We already have a system for this in theory - the Earned Income Tax Credit. The program use to be widely supported by both Democrats and Republican administrations. What’s a “living wage” anyway? It’s not the same for a single mother of 3 as it was for my then teenage son. And I find it rich for people on HN to say that companies that can’t afford to pay its workers are commenting on a site run by a VC fund where almost none of its companies could afford to pay anything if they weren’t being propped up by investors and most of the companies will never make a profit