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by chimeracoder 3065 days ago
> I hear your waiters have slave wages, that's why they depend that much on tips.

Waiters make quite a lot of money off of tips. They actually have been upset with the changes in places like California that "raise" their base salary to minimum wage, because it results in a lower take-home pay overall.
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zerr 3065 days ago
The minimum wage in US is a slave wage.
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chimeracoder 3065 days ago
> The minimum wage in US is a slave wage.

Talking about $15/hour as a "slave wage" is honestly insulting to people who, you know, lived under actual chattel slavery.

You may not like that threshold, but lumping the two together undermines your own point. This sort of racial insensitivity is one of the biggest reasons that leftist movements have such difficulty gaining traction with minority voters, and black voters in particular.

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dragonwriter 3064 days ago
> > The minimum wage in US is a slave wage.

> Talking about $15/hour as a "slave wage"

Isn't happening, because that's not the US minimum wage.

> is honestly insulting to people who, you know, lived under actual chattel slavery.

I'm pretty sure they are the ones who actually coined the phrase in reference to crushingly inadequate post-formal-emancipation wages.

> This sort of racial insensitivity is one of the biggest reasons that leftist movements have such difficulty gaining traction with minority voters, and black voters in particular.

Being (partially) black, left-leaning, and actually having studied American political history more than a little bit, I tend to think racial distrust and the absence of as critical mass of visible black leftist leaders is more of a factor; as is a kind of existential despair in the wake of the civil rights movement and nominal victories that have still left blacks far behind.

Obsessing over details of wording is more an issue of concern among a narrow group of elite intellectuls than the broader community, and I'm not even sure most of them would be concerned in the direction you suggest.

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WesleyLivesay 3064 days ago
I'm not going to necessarily get into a discussion about what constitutes a "slave wage" but most states have minimum wages far below $15/hour, in fact no state mandates that much, only a few cities.

https://www.minimum-wage.org/wage-by-state

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