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by whythre 1403 days ago
Why minimum wage, specifically? If you are really worth 120k+ it seems bizarre that you would just point to some old pre-inflation standard of pay and say ‘that, pay me that.’

In any case, it seems that it would take a fair amount of effort to convince a potential employer that this isn’t a weird stunt or scam.

Your stated goal is to have a ‘calmer’ hiring experience, but this idea seems like it will have the opposite result.

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> but this idea seems like it will have the opposite result.

that's what I was thinking and made this post to flesh out my ideas/feelings better.

> Why minimum wage, specifically?

because of what the other commenter mentioned, the race to the bottom and I figured that min wage would be the "bottom" at least for jobs that stay in my state and aren't outsourced in the near future.

Still trying to flesh out the ideas, thank you for the question.

> If you are really worth 120k+

going to trying to brainstorm a way to explain/reason why better