[lbo-talk] A fair day's wage for a fair day's work in the USA

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Fri Sep 21 20:09:00 PDT 2007


Joanna wrote:
>
>10% loss in wages. I guess that's half the story. The other half would
>be what things cost (in real dollars) that you spend those wages on.
>Things like
>
> --housing
> --health care
> --food
> --education
> --transportation
> --taxes (fed, state, ss, disablity)

It is interesting that *not* on this list is--foreign tourism. Rightly so-- because for American workers, with at most two weeks vacation, international travel has always been an unattainable luxury, its ever increasing inaffordability has little impact on their standard of living. Meanwhile popular tourism has become an ever-increasing part of the living standard in every civilized industrial country.

Shane Mage

"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30



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