<story><title>Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout</title><url>https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2022/mar/23/an-email-urging-lower-wages-for-new-employees-due-to-higher-gas-prices-sparks-walkout-at-lawrence-applebees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpcfl</author><text>&amp;gt;Otherwise it sounds like you don&amp;#x27;t think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?&lt;p&gt;I think your confusing &amp;quot;should be able to&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;shall be able to, enforceable by law&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t expect that a 15 year old working his first job as a fry cook at an Arby&amp;#x27;s should be compensated enough that he can afford to live on his own. In fact, that could be dangerously disincentivizing his hard work toward his education.</text></item><item><author>quantum_magpie</author><text>&amp;gt;two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.&lt;p&gt;My immediate reaction to this statement was.. it&amp;#x27;s insane? In my opinion it should read &amp;#x27;a single person able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within an hour of public transport commute.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise it sounds like you don&amp;#x27;t think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.&lt;p&gt;The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;This guy smh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramones13</author><text>But should a 27 year-old fry cook make enough money to live alone? Labor is labor. Pay shouldn’t be less because it’s going to an acceptable to abuse class of person.</text></comment>
<story><title>Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout</title><url>https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2022/mar/23/an-email-urging-lower-wages-for-new-employees-due-to-higher-gas-prices-sparks-walkout-at-lawrence-applebees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpcfl</author><text>&amp;gt;Otherwise it sounds like you don&amp;#x27;t think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?&lt;p&gt;I think your confusing &amp;quot;should be able to&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;shall be able to, enforceable by law&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t expect that a 15 year old working his first job as a fry cook at an Arby&amp;#x27;s should be compensated enough that he can afford to live on his own. In fact, that could be dangerously disincentivizing his hard work toward his education.</text></item><item><author>quantum_magpie</author><text>&amp;gt;two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.&lt;p&gt;My immediate reaction to this statement was.. it&amp;#x27;s insane? In my opinion it should read &amp;#x27;a single person able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within an hour of public transport commute.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise it sounds like you don&amp;#x27;t think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I wonder what the USA would look like if minimum wage was defined as; two people being able to afford a 1 bedroom apartment within a 1 hour drive without traffic.&lt;p&gt;The static (both in the nominal and inflation adjusted sense) for minimum wage doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense imo. Minimum wage should be tied to some level of living (not necessarily a great living, but &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;This guy smh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeybutton</author><text>Pay should scale with the value of work produced, not the perceived &amp;quot;worth&amp;quot; of the worker. You argue with a hypothetical teenager. But what about my racist and sexist hypothetical uncle who owns an Arby&amp;#x27;s?</text></comment>