Where do these figures come from? Should they not be referenced? However, I agree it is disgusting!
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The Pay Gap
USA worst of all:
Completely disgusting.
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67 [/FONT]
Where do these figures come from? Should they not be referenced? However, I agree it is disgusting!
rah, is this real?
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
The 475:1 for the US was referenced (along with a couple others) in Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation." IIRC it was from another book. This one was a picture posted on facebook.
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67 [/FONT]
Guys, that's just liberty!
http://www.epi.org/publication/webfe...hots_20060627/
This one has it at 800 times more!
Well, that one's comparing it to minimum wage - the average worker (at least for now) still makes more than minimum wage most places (and I think min wage is over $7 an hour now - still way too low obviously.)
[FONT=Arial Narrow]Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67 [/FONT]
$7.25 is the Federal minimum wage per hour, and some states and municipalities have a higher minimum (Washington State at $8.67 is the highest in the country). A recent study posited that $16 per hour would represent an actual living wage, so, yes, the minimum is far below that.
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property." - Assata Shakur
