Australia’s minimum wage is $16/hour and the Big Mac is actually 15 cents cheaper than in the US. Pass this along for the millions of people who say raising wages will increase prices. Cure them of their ignorance. Like our page US Uncut!
http://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/
blua:
If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.
Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.
So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.
This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.
Was expecting classist bullshit, got the exact opposite
This is so ubelievably important and I hate that I have to keep re-explaining it to people.
“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”
—Eugene V. Debs
Here’s the New York Times story about this.
A small town in Canada ran an experiment along these lines in the 1970s and reported similar impressive results. Results which were, of course, ignored and the program was shut down instead of expanded because communism.
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::Gives Walmart side eye::
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