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15 dollars and hour and my best conversation with a co-worker.
posted ago by Bigbadchows ago by Bigbadchows +2365 / -4

An employee at a major bank in Florida was so grateful we passed 15 an hour min. She makes roughly 19 an hour and her son works in retail. She said how pleased she was that they would earn more money. I stated "how we going to make more money"? She went on to explain her 20 years of service is worth a lot more than min wage. I responded the 15 an hour is like food stamps, designed to help the poorest among us. She than asked the manager when they raise the min wage 1.5 will she get more money. To which she was told no, just the annual raise if available. It was at that moment she understood. Telling me if she could work at the zoo for 15 an hour why would she work in a high stress office. To which I responded "you wouldn't". In hind sight I should have said those making 100k would prolly get raises.

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– templariusz 33 points ago +33 / -0

Can you explain what greenbelting is? (English is not my 1st language)

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– OperationCatSpeed 85 points ago +87 / -2

Liberals trying to inflate the price of their shithole cities. It generally boils down to this.

  1. Be a shithole blue city with self centered, shithole liberal residents.
  2. Decide that you want to inflate home prices to 2-3X what they should be because heaven forbid your CCP land investors homing their money in your state should have to suffer a 1-2 year loss on their investments.
  3. Zone everything as single family dwellings. This makes sure your self-centered, shithole liberal residents can bunk up illegals in their houses and profit off them. It also has the added bonus of making condos or non-rent controlled housing untenable to the working class without gubment gibs.
  4. Declare every rural area surrounding your city as a "natural reserve" so it's unconscionable to develop on it. This is the greenbelt.

This has been California's recipe for shit housing prices for the last 30 years. If you need a reference model, take a look at the SF bay in google earth sometime and note the nice little eco-fascist green belt surrounding it.

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– Snakecasablanca83 23 points ago +23 / -0

I tried to google "greenbelting" and found some things in wikipedia etc that sort of explained it. I tried to search for the concerns you have and cannot find any articles or any such thing where someone shares a similar concern as you of greenbelting.

Im trying to understand your concern and I think I'm seeing it.

Essentially the government can control house prices by just not letting people build more properties. They use that control corruptly to both keep house prices high by restricting control, as well as to fill their own pockets by selling deisions to special interest groups and lobbists who they will approve applications for in the "greenbelt" as a favor in return for another favor or most likely financial political donations to your campaign / party.

Am I on the right track. Not taking the piss I find this interesting.

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– feraxil 4 points ago +4 / -0

You are exactly on the right track.

Its corruption and stepping on the little guy at its finest.

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