![]() ![]() The idea of taking a $1,200-per-month rent was so far from reality for me given my student loan debt and meager starting pay that the thought to do so never even crossed my mind! That someone would do so on a job that pays about half of my initial starting wages blows my fucking mind and makes me wonder who ever guided her or taught her about the world. So I immediately crossed off: California, New York, most of New England, Seattle. I considered leaving where I am, but the first thing I noticed was that journalism salaries for entry-level don't scale up according to cost-of-living. I worked two or three jobs all throughout school, and I ended up going into Journalism. I have sympathy for the girl, who got stuck in a bad situation - but my god the decisions she made to get there were just fucking awful. I worry that this meme could lead to an odd left-wing resistance to GBI/more lavish welfare state, since the policy would be branded as a subsidy to Walmart. And guaranteed basic income could be a really important policy to have as more and more jobs are replaced by automation. This meme also worries me because I lean towards thinking that the minimum wage isn't a terrible policy but we'd be better off replacing it with guaranteed basic income (or an otherwise more lavish welfare state). What's implausible is that non-Walmart stock owners have significantly less responsibility to the poor. This is not to deny that, plausibly, wealthy owners of Walmart stock have a moral responsibility to the poor. Yet such a policy doesn't actually help the people who might want jobs from you. ![]() It suggests that if you want to be virtuous, you should avoid hiring people, so as to keep your hands clean and avoid the moral contagion that comes with employing low wage workers. But the idea that employing someone gives you a general responsibility for their welfare (beyond, say, not tricking them into working for less pay or under worse conditions than you initially promised) is also very odd. ![]()
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