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orleans

(34,072 posts)
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 10:48 PM Nov 2021

great statement on low wages & the price of gas




*fills up car on way to $10/hour part-time job with no health care or retirement plan after dropping kids at $1,500/month child care while servicing $30k student debt and paying $250 rent hike in neighborhood where home prices are up $100k*

"man, these gas prices are killing me"

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who is dan price:
"I cut my CEO pay by a million dollars so all workers could make at least $70,000 per year. Author of WORTH IT - buy it for your boss from a small bookstore"

from wiki:
Dan Price (born May 13, 1984) is the founder of credit card processing company Gravity Payments. He gained recognition in 2015 after he raised the minimum salary for employees of his company to $70,000 and lowered his own wage to $70,000 from $1.1 million.

my kid follows him on twitter and she sent me that tweet. so i'm reading through his tweets--there are some pretty damn good ones. so now i'm following him

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