Comment by meatsauce | Hacker News Reader

Comment by meatsauce | Hacker News Reader

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Amazon starts at $18/hr.

You want $100/hour to pack and move boxes? Start a moving company.

Healthcare isn't a right. It is a luxury. Self defense, free speech, freedom of movement and association; those are human rights. Healthcare is only expensive because of the multiple layers of government and private corruption, litigation, and pie-halving. At the same time, Healthcare can save your life; what is your life truly worth? A $10 co-pay?

If we had a good education, then people wouldn't be whining about $18/hour.

Safety? Such as being insulated from ideas & opinions you don't like, or having zero risk for electrocution in electrical contracting?

    Healthcare isn't a right

From UN Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 25:

    1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and
       well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing
       and medical care and necessary social servicess, and the right to security
       in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or
       other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

>> Amazon starts at $18/hr

I think it's a lie. AFAIK they pay warehouse workers $15/hour. As you start your message with lying, the rest of is BS.

Safety, by the way, means not being afraid of being shut by a right-wing delusional maniac.

"The average starting wage of $18 an hour will be effective in regions where labor markets are tight, while the company will continue to pay a minimum wage of $15 an hour, said Dave Bozeman, vice president of delivery services at Amazon."

So "lie" is a bit strong here.

>> while the company will continue to pay a minimum wage of $15 an hour

Like I said, it's $15/h

But anyway, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and there is zero chance that it will be increased.

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