"Living wage" is a loaded political term primarily designed to virtue signal.
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Quoted from roffels:Ok, how about do they make enough to work 40 hours a week, pay rent, eat healthy, and have their medical needs taken care of? We're talking about producers of $5000-$8000 fun machines, I dont really see how this should be controversial.
But who gets to define "living wage for pinball producer"? And why do they get that power to define that? And will that wage be the same for each individual or if I have a family with six kids do I get paid six times as much because I would need that much for it be livable?
The idea that people should be paid fairly sounds wonderful. The controversy is in the details.
Quoted from roffels:So you support paying them more?
The idea sounds wonderful doesn't it?
The reality of wage fairness is not a yes or no question. If pinball employees are paid too much than the games become too expensive. If they are paid too little the quality of the construction drops. If they have wonderful healthcare and healthcare costs skyrocket than the companies will have to lay people off.
Do you support simplifying complex issues down to easily digestible sound bites and buzz words?
Quoted from roffels:...cant afford to take care of their employees, maybe they shouldn't exist as an entity.
This is a very extreme perspective you have. I refer back to my original reply to this thread.
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