[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[spike]

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> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John K Clark
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 8:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)
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> "The Avantguardian" <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>
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> > Would YOU do the job for 7 cents an hour?
> 
> If I was currently making 6 cents an hour I would not only take the job
> I'd be dancing in the street with happiness at receiving a 15% rise, or I
> would be if I wasn't too weak from hunger to do so...   John K Clark

This discussion reminds me of accounts of American 
GIs arriving at isolated South Pacific islands during 
WW2.  They assumed the price of a harlot was a typical
working man's pay for a day, which was about 15 dollars
then.  The premium harlots would get as much as 25 dollars
in Toledo.  The problem was a working man's wage there
was a dollar a day; it had been that for a hundred
years on the sugar plantations.  One can imagine the
economic impact.

spike