From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 13:22:31 MDT
> (Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>):
>
> I did a few spreadsheet calculations, involving the current minimum
> wage, the hours in a week, and the cost of rent in substandard housing
> in the area where I live. Working full time at minimum wage, and
> without counting taxes or any other expenses (e.g., food, clothes, etc.)
> a persons would end up with less than $7 per day after paying their
> rent. (I forget how much less, and I made several optomistic assumptions.)
Why do we think it's somehow "right" to forbid contracts for pay that's
not sufficient for living alone? Since when do we expect that everyone
capable of working should also be capable of living alone?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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