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Open Thread - Thurs 09 May 2024 - Is the Economy Really Good?

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 05/09/2024 - 5:00am

9 May 2024 - Is the Economy Really Good?

People's perceptions seem to be that the economy isn't that great. David Sirota, amongst others, did an article about this last month: 'Why Are Biden’s Economic Poll Numbers So Bad?'. The subtitle basically says it all: Economic policy has been erased from the political discourse, which is a problem for Biden — and for democracy.

I think this bit from the article says a lot:

American politics of late is a forum almost exclusively for the culture war, and rarely if ever a forum to discuss — or combat — the class war.

Ain't that the truth?!

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Open Thread - Thurs 18 May 2023: Tipping and Wages

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 05/18/2023 - 5:00am

Tipping and Wages:
Should the minimum wage include tips for 'service' jobs? NO. Tips should be extra. I learned this a long time ago, in Europe. Wages were decent there, and the people doing a job which in the USA would be a tipped job, like waiting on tables and so on, were just as good and just as nice as the people doing those jobs in the USA. If you tipped service people in Europe, that was ok, but wasn't required for the worker to get a decent wage.

A waiter in Uptown New Orleans, slicing Pizza at the Ancora Pizzeria (image from Wikimedia Commons).