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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]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)66. Friend of mine works in forestry, his working conditions are like Edweird describes. (nt)
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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