If wages had risen as fast as profits over the past fifty years, almost everyone would retire at sixty two in financial comfort.

But we didn't make that the law. We don't protect labor or ourselves using our democracy.
So be it. Shorter lives.

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Firestarter · 31-35, F

I want to retire at 40.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Firestarter I like rice. No politics, no sympathy. La la la can't do squat!

beckyromero · 36-40, F

If just the minimum wage had kept up to inflation as what it was when Nixon became president, overall wages would have risen as well.

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@beckyromero you changed the subject. Fine. Whatever.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Roundandroundwego

I don't see much of a disagreement. You read a lot of my post so you should know that...

I'm for raising the top tax rate AND the corporate tax rate ... in addition to raising both the poverty level AND the minimum wage.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@hippyjoe1955

Canadian provincial minimum wages are higher than those in the U.S. - even AFTER adjusting for the exchange rate.

Same, too, for your equivalent of the poverty line.

And you have a safety net for health care.

JSul3 · 70-79

Thinning the herd.

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