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Minimum Wage should be indexed to 2% of a city’s median rent.
And here’s why:
Housing costs are the single biggest financial burden facing Americans today.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development define being cost-burdened as spending more than a third of your income on rent. By that definition, over half of the households in this country are cost-burdened. Source
If we want people to be able to afford to live in cities and not get priced out, we have to make a two pronged approach. One is to build houses towards all incomes and price ranges, not just luxury condos. And the other is a robust wage floor so people can actually afford to live.
Fight for 15 is doing an amazing job and I love them, but we have to realize that is quite a few places, $15/hr still isn’t enough to live on.
Which is where the 2% comes in. It allows a minimum wage that is flexible with regards to the costs of living.
And it wasn’t plucked out of thin air either:
Rent should be a third of a persons income, or to restate the equation: income should be three times a person’s rent.
And since a full time job is 8 hrs a day / 40 hrs a week / 160 hrs a month.
So when you do the math, the ideal hourly minimum wage as a percentage of rent works out to around 1.875%, which for ease of calculation is 2%.
Example minimum wages under a 2% rent rule:
San Francisco: $67.40/hr
New York City: $56/hr
Boston: $55.94/hr
Los Angeles: $27/hr
Houston: $21.38/hr
St. Louis: $18.22/hr
Billings, MT: $17.16/hr
I. That puts San Fran’s cost-of-living issue into perspective.
You know, speakers of the Queen’s English throw a lot of shade at non-standard copulas and contractions for folks whose vernacular has historically included the word “’twasn’t”.
I love how most of the reblogs that are trying to come up with goofier variants actually manage to make the word less ridiculous than it really is.
(Hint: the apostrophe in a contraction goes where letters have been chopped off. It’s not “t’was” because there’s no missing letter in that position. The missing letter is at the beginning – “‘twas” and its various elaborations are contractions that start with an apostrophe.)
Conservatives: “Quit demanding better pay. You voluntarily chose to work for them. If you feel like you’re being paid too little, you can just quit. No one threatened you with death if you didn’t work for them, especially not me just five seconds ago.”
also not every asshole making a bad take about butch women is a ‘queer theorist’
like i know none of you will stop because you are desperate to demonise queer folk as destructive, lesbophobic and out of touch, but thanks
Like a friend of mine pointed out that the rhetoric of ‘butch women don’t belong in women’s spaces’ is more of a radfem position than a queer one, but y’all are just gonna ignore contributions by butch women to queer theory aren’t you.
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Lesbian separatists such as Sheila Jeffreys argued that all forms of masculinity, including masculine butch women, were negative and harmful to women. The group of radical lesbians often credited with sparking lesbian feminism, Radicalesbians, called butch culture “male-identified role-playing among lesbians”.
While butch-femme roles had previously been the primary way of identifying lesbians and quantifying lesbian relationships in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, lesbian feminist ideology had turned these roles into a “perversion of lesbian identity”. Lesbian feminism turned the public face of lesbians into white, middle class women, often excluding and alienating working class lesbians and lesbians of color.
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