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In Mountain View, California minimum wage is below a living wage. I understand the sentiment: The scarcest resource for me is my time. Money is how we let peopl
by jwatte 12y ago
In Mountain View, California minimum wage is below a living wage.
I understand the sentiment: The scarcest resource for me is my time. Money is how we let people decide who gets to tell whom what to do with their time. A system where 0.1% tell 99.9% how to spend their precious time alive is not morally just.
(I'm not saying we're quite that bad as a society -- at least not yet.)
- ilyaeck 12y ago"A system where 0.1% tell 99.9% how to spend their precious time alive is not morally just" Welcome to modern-day capitalism. This is exactly what it is, with or without Magic. Don't like it? Neither do I, but then we need a new socio-financial mechanism to redistribute wealth, which goes well beyond the scope of services like Magic.
- monochromatic 12y ago> A system where 0.1% tell 99.9% how to spend their precious time alive is not morally just. Says who? Where's the cutoff between just and unjust?
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- Retra 12y ago"There are over a hundred million grains of sand on the beach." "Say's who? Where's the cutoff between a grain of sand and a pebble?" I'm wondering where the cutoff is between a pointless question and a stupid question.
- Aeolun 12y agoExactly at the point where I place it.