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by defrost 1099 days ago
> Says you, about an arrangement that doesn't involve you.

This is something that was also said by the judge in the 1907 Australian Harvester Decision which set a set a ‘living’ or ‘family’ wage.

It was ruled to allow an unskilled labourer to support a wife and three children, to feed, house, and clothe them.

This became the basis of the national minimum wage system in Australia that persists to this day, that a minimum wage should allow a 40 hour work week to feed, clothe and house a worker and reasonable immediate dependants.

> resulting in people eating bugs, sleeping in concrete tube "pods", getting paid a dollar an hour, and dying alone.

Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen.

Any ideas on when your predicted outcomes will kick in?
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sennight 1099 days ago
> Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen.

Didn't you guys recently have COVID concentration camps? You might wanna rethink that position.

> Any ideas on when your predicted outcomes will kick in?

Ask Klaus Schwab, he and Bill Gates seem to have their fingers on the pulse of awful things going down in the world.

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t-writescode 1099 days ago
> Didn't you guys recently have COVID concentration camps? You might wanna rethink that position.

True or not, what does that have to do with literally anything that's been said?

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sennight 1099 days ago
Spoiler alert, true.

>>> ...shift the consensus position for an acceptable standard of living...

>> Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen.

> ...recently have COVID concentration camps?

I pointed to a shifting consensus position, he denied it, I pointed to an outrageous example of the warping of normalcy in his own backyard. That clear it up for you?

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defrost 1099 days ago
> he denied it

Who denied what now? Can you quote the denial, I'm not seeing it.

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sennight 1099 days ago
"Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen.

Any ideas on when your predicted outcomes will kick in?"

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defrost 1099 days ago
And the question stands.

If a minimum living wage leads to economic collapse .. when will that happen (given that's not yet happened after 115+ years in practice)?

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