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RWSGFY
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2018 May 18, 6:25am
RWSGFY
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2018 May 18, 6:25am
MisterLefty says
Putting cops and firefighters in the same category as janitors and pizzamakers insults reader's intelligence. Especially while the story about that Coward County sheriff's deputy retiring on $8K per month pension hasn't yet faded from the news cycle. These people are paid on par with (or better than) engineers, so stop lumping them in with the fucking homeless!
Who vacuums the offices, who makes the pizzas, who drives the Ubers and Taxis, who cuts hair and who serves drinks at the tony bar across the street from Spamazon's office? How about the cops and firefighters?
Putting cops and firefighters in the same category as janitors and pizzamakers insults reader's intelligence. Especially while the story about that Coward County sheriff's deputy retiring on $8K per month pension hasn't yet faded from the news cycle. These people are paid on par with (or better than) engineers, so stop lumping them in with the fucking homeless!
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HeadSet
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2018 May 18, 6:27am
HeadSet
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2018 May 18, 6:27am
Very interesting and thoughtful article, MisterLefty.
In some crowded an prosperous SE Asian nations, before one is allowed to buy a car one must prove they have a place to park both at home and at work. I wonder if Seattle could take a cue from that and require company to prove that any new employee would have a place to live before giving permission to hire.
Anheiser-Busch beer did something like that before building a brewery in Williamsburg, VA. A-B build the Kingsmill subdivision so their workers (especially upper management) would have a nearby, suitably upscale place to live.
In some crowded an prosperous SE Asian nations, before one is allowed to buy a car one must prove they have a place to park both at home and at work. I wonder if Seattle could take a cue from that and require company to prove that any new employee would have a place to live before giving permission to hire.
Anheiser-Busch beer did something like that before building a brewery in Williamsburg, VA. A-B build the Kingsmill subdivision so their workers (especially upper management) would have a nearby, suitably upscale place to live.
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HeadSet
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2018 May 18, 6:32am
HeadSet
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2018 May 18, 6:32am
Putting cops and firefighters in the same category as janitors and pizzamakers insults reader's intelligence.
Seriously? Many cops and firefighters moonlight as janitors and pizzamakers.
Actually, I think his point is to present jobs in a range of pay scales that in no way match the pay and allowances of the people who will be brought in by Amazon and compete with housing. He was not comparing prestige.
Seriously? Many cops and firefighters moonlight as janitors and pizzamakers.
Actually, I think his point is to present jobs in a range of pay scales that in no way match the pay and allowances of the people who will be brought in by Amazon and compete with housing. He was not comparing prestige.
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RWSGFY
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2018 May 18, 6:40am
RWSGFY
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2018 May 18, 6:40am
HeadSet says
ROTFLMAO. Where do people even get this kind of ideas?
Many cops and firefighters moonlight as janitors and pizzamakers
ROTFLMAO. Where do people even get this kind of ideas?
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The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new “head tax” on its largest businesses, and while being termed the “Amazon tax,” many other prominent U.S. corporations stand to take a hit as well.
The tax comes out to 14 cents per employee per hour, or $275 per employee annually, on for-profit companies that net at least $20 million annually. The rationale for the tax is to raise money to pay for housing for the city’s homeless.
It sounds like a dream -- companies hiring people, giving them crazy stock option awards and salaries, and everyone profits, right?
Well, no. Those who don't work there don't profit. And as that continues over time what happens to housing prices and availability? It becomes impossible for anyone who doesn't have that million-dollar job!
Then you have a bunch of homeless people who got evicted from their apartments when they were torn down to make room for the next McMansion. What do you do with them?
More to the point, where do the people who work at McDonalds or pulling your coffee at Starbucks live?
They don't, basically. They can't possibly afford to to live in that area anymore.
Who vacuums the offices, who makes the pizzas, who drives the Ubers and Taxis, who cuts hair and who serves drinks at the tony bar across the street from Spamazon's office? How about the cops -- and firefighters?
In short, where do all the people who you need in order to have a functioning city live -- and how, when your "median" house costs $700,000 and a one-bedroom apartment is $2,000/month -- more than someone makes even with a forced $15/hour minimum wage?
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