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LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
46. It is fun to pretend as such.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:43 PM
Oct 2015

"no trouble finding new jobs that pay them their fair market value..."

It is fun to pretend as such.

$16 / hr for a manger? Egnever Oct 2015 #1
In SF it should be at least double...nt joeybee12 Oct 2015 #45
Part-time BuelahWitch Oct 2015 #57
Short version: "We can't find good workers at shit wages! Waaaahhhh!!!" hatrack Oct 2015 #2
Bingo Populist_Prole Oct 2015 #74
I expect there will be more of this all around the country as rental and housing prices increase in smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #3
It's in most places around the country already davidn3600 Oct 2015 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author BigDemVoter Oct 2015 #4
Makes sense madville Oct 2015 #5
Very important issue and dilemma, self inflicted by gross income inequality. The gentrification appalachiablue Oct 2015 #6
It's happening quickly Texasgal Oct 2015 #8
I believe it. The cities I mentioned are rapidly undergoing change in the last 5-15+ years and appalachiablue Oct 2015 #11
Oh. That's mine! KamaAina Oct 2015 #47
Excellent KamaAina, glad you spoke up! A very troubling issue, American Rural Poverty appalachiablue Oct 2015 #66
You know it. I live near BS Springs, and my place is worth 550k, but the taxes... Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #17
I grew up in Central Austin Texasgal Oct 2015 #22
Vancouver, London, Dubai, San Francisco and a few other places Warpy Oct 2015 #40
The difference re: NYC is that there are cheaper Burroughs with good mass transit for commutes stevenleser Oct 2015 #62
Lived in the Bronx for 40+ years. Rents are getting critical there too... GOLGO 13 Oct 2015 #71
Yes. mmonk Oct 2015 #75
San Francisco is a gated community. geek tragedy Oct 2015 #7
That wouldn't address the lack of affordable housing mythology Oct 2015 #78
who's going to build the affordable housing? nt geek tragedy Oct 2015 #79
Better get those robots up to speed. Downwinder Oct 2015 #9
A problem with a national minimum wage dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #10
Great Idea! Kilgore Oct 2015 #14
It seems obvious. moondust Oct 2015 #15
I hadn't seen MIT's living wage calculator dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #28
Similar to a maximum wage, moondust Oct 2015 #29
A good idea, what about foundations and the like? dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #32
totally agree, and this extends to poverty calculations, too wordpix Oct 2015 #68
Yes, this isn't rocket science dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #73
Aww... Rex Oct 2015 #13
If you cannot pay a living wage by the standards/ hifiguy Oct 2015 #16
This is how wages go up. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #18
And the people who've been dutifully working for years get bypassed by the new hires. NBachers Oct 2015 #30
And such people should have no trouble finding new jobs that pay them their fair market value (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #42
It is fun to pretend as such. LanternWaste Oct 2015 #46
Isn't this thread about employers being desperate to hire people? (nt) Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #51
Build. Taller. Buildings. Recursion Oct 2015 #19
Yeah, 500 square foot condos starting at $1m will solve all SF's housing woes Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #26
"The market" didn't get us here; nostalgia for Victorian architecture did Recursion Oct 2015 #27
"the market" wants to build pied-a-terres for the super-wealthy and Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #31
"The market" complained for years. Igel Oct 2015 #41
And would an outcome like that in New York, London, Toronto or Vancouver be desireable? Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #44
Brownstones? KamaAina Oct 2015 #48
Yeah, I couldn't remember the bay area word for "rowhouse" (nt) Recursion Oct 2015 #60
Townhouse? KamaAina Oct 2015 #63
You know that taller buildings in this city creates more wind, right? threethirteen Oct 2015 #35
OK, then high rents are there to stay for a while Recursion Oct 2015 #38
BART has ordered its "Fleet of the Future" KamaAina Oct 2015 #50
Why are there so many posts that mention raising the wages, and NONE truedelphi Oct 2015 #20
It's not the worker who is the beneficiary of food stamps or AFDC; it's hedgehog Oct 2015 #23
Very good point and a foul reality that's rapidly getting worse in metro areas. appalachiablue Oct 2015 #64
I won't even mention my joint income with spouse truedelphi Oct 2015 #76
simple - hire the homeless and street people nt msongs Oct 2015 #21
The only people I know who still live in SF... Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2015 #24
I live in a resort community.. lot's of empty second homes mountain grammy Oct 2015 #25
Same here, and the employers are screaming for (low wage) workers Hydra Oct 2015 #34
One has to wondering jamzrockz Oct 2015 #33
And where were they when all those people that would have filled those position were being evicted? threethirteen Oct 2015 #36
This is a furniture store, so they were probably cheering the approach of another DINK couple Recursion Oct 2015 #39
It is a used furniture store next to a used clothing store. Luminous Animal Oct 2015 #55
Thank you for bringing up the pathetic SF public transportation system. Recursion spiderpig Oct 2015 #58
You're not desperate enough to PAY THEM, McCarley Warpy Oct 2015 #37
Poor widdle assholes can't find help LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #43
I don't think the small business owners here brentspeak Oct 2015 #56
as one who's been both employer in a big city and employee wordpix Oct 2015 #69
About time that you realize that you cannot turn a whole jwirr Oct 2015 #49
Xposted to California group KamaAina Oct 2015 #52
Hey, good news, everybody! In a few decades this won't matter because SF Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #53
Not all of it KamaAina Oct 2015 #59
925 ft. is a ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #72
Oh who could have foreseen that? Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #54
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #61
Good. Fuck them!... TeeYiYi Oct 2015 #65
Seems like when I left Santa Barbara yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #70
same with DC soon wordpix Oct 2015 #67
Supply and demand? Victor_c3 Oct 2015 #77
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