• Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    When I was a teen. I was making more money working there than I made ten years after

    Okay, and?

    He paid well for the region but it wasn’t a lot

    So, he chose to not pay a lot because he could get away with it due to the conditions your community was already forced into. And?

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        2 months ago

        I wouldn’t say he under paid

        You already did say that he did not pay a lot.

        He could have paid the minimum wage but he didn’t

        And I could have been assaulting random people, but I don’t do that. Heap laurels upon me now.

        The one job I had 15 years later in the same town paid me 3$/hr to be a server and busboy

        Going to note that you being paid so little is a consequence of extremely rich people like your friend existing as a class in your economy.

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        2 months ago

        He paid 3x the minimum wage at the time

        Cool. He paid more than the extremely low minimum wage (and still did not pay much). I too don’t do the absolute worst things that I might be allowed to do. Now what?