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In reply to the discussion: Do you think a laborer who makes $150,000 a year with overtime is being overpaid? [View all]NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)21. You would like people to believe that if someone gets 150 grand their finances are out of control
Because that is certainly not the case with today's cost of living.
Anyone who has been in a grocery store recently knows that.
Sorry, but I am not buying what you are selling.
Don
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Do you think a laborer who makes $150,000 a year with overtime is being overpaid? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
OP
I'd be pretty unoffended by a labourer working those hours getting that kind of pay
Posteritatis
Dec 2011
#9
Roughly about 112 hours of pay per week for working seven twelves with overtime premium
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#94
That is just part of the scam that many people have been brainwashed into believing too
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#6
That is all well and good until no one can afford to purchase the products made using alternatives
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#10
You would like people to believe that if someone gets 150 grand their finances are out of control
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#21
Friend of mine works in forestry, his working conditions are like Edweird describes. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2011
#66
I'm not sure that would fit the definition of "laborer" which the OP was about.
former9thward
Dec 2011
#68
Whatever. I work a blue collar labor intensive job that cannot be replaced by technology
Edweird
Dec 2011
#69
Do you think it is the Walton family and hedge fund managers who keep everything going then?
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#13
I think farm workers should make a lot more than they are currently making with overtime pay
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#22
Anyone who enters into a voluntary agreement for labor cannot be overpaid by definition.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#8
I learned on DU that I should congratulate him for things going 'swimmingly' for him
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2011
#11
And people learn outside DU to resent the well paid laborer rather than the Top One Percent.
Overseas
Dec 2011
#29
I'd be happy if the entire 99% got $150,000 annually for only working 4 days a week.
firehorse
Dec 2011
#12
Yeah, uh huh. A laborer getting an annual salary the same as a month's hedge fund salary
Overseas
Dec 2011
#30
There was a mechanic in our local transit system that made over 110 G. (200 Gs in today's money)
Stuart G
Dec 2011
#19
And salaries have been flat to lowered, he'd be really fortunate to still be allowed to pull OT,
bettyellen
Dec 2011
#49
What would benefit you and just about everyone else would be if you made more income
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#57
Putting words that aren't there into another persons mouths is a dirty thing to do
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#81
Shh, over here... see Adam Smith, if there was ever a CAPITALIST (I mean he invented it for god's
nadinbrzezinski
Dec 2011
#72
Raising wages has to be done collectively or it turns into every man for himself
NNN0LHI
Dec 2011
#86