Overtime: We Need a Shorter Working Week

I'm just going to correct your "facts" for other people reading the discussion.

"as it’s [$15/hr] proven it’s sustainable at scale" That's a total guess / assertion in favor of your position, isn't it?

The new wage being offered isn't proven "sustainable" -- it's merely what some employers have had to offer in the face of a pandemic + widespread increased unemployment benefits. And we're seeing record inflation (with some part attributable to this, some due to other important factors of course). So you're hardly justified in saying it's proven sustainable long term. You just want it to be so because it benefits you.

And secondly, and more importantly, your tactics are no better than some corporatists who seek to exploit laws to their advantage whenever they can, just for their side, because they can. "... which makes it easier to lock it in with statue."

If it were so proven to be good and sustainable, why is a statute required? Wouldn't that sustain itself?

Now that you see a moment where $15 has been tried out of necessity due to the temporary (hopefully) situation, you want to "lock it in" with laws and regulation, and distort how the market for labor works by putting in a floor.

I find it equally bad for someone to try to argue for and do this, regardless of whose side it is -- corporations trying to skirt environmental regulations, other public obligations, or labor trying to say that they deserve x/y/z because they got it for a moment.

Don't act as if you're trying to find a solution good for the entire economy, producers, consumers, workers, people. You're an advocate for labor to get more benefits. And using incomplete arguments that favor your position.

And by the way, I don't engage in the practice of downvoting people who I merely disagree with.

At which moment someone inherits their property and starts being interested in protecting it against high taxation or outright confiscation.

I can see social norms such as racism or gay-friendliness moving in one direction only by the older generations dying out, but attitudes towards economic questions tend to move back and forth since the early 1920s at least, often as a correction (or even overcorrection) to the excesses of the previously dominant side.

On the contrary. In real terms, the minimum wage has been declining for a long while (at the federal level). If you mean the median wage, I believe that's been declining over time as well in real terms. Not sure about, say, the low 10% order statistic of wages.

> and ratcheting down the work week.

I don't recall the work week having been officially reduced in the US in the recent past. In fact, not for many decades.

If anything, work hours extend unofficially. Nabisco workers are now striking over workweeks extending into 6 and 7 days workdays with 12-hour or longer shifts and such. And there's the wide-spread phenomenon of having to take on a second part-time job to make ends meet.