{"id":44595,"date":"2018-08-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44595"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:02:14","slug":"thats-not-a-minimum-wage-increase-this-is-a-minimum-wage-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/22\/thats-not-a-minimum-wage-increase-this-is-a-minimum-wage-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s not a minimum wage increase. <em>This<\/em> is a minimum wage increase!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen dollars as a minimum wage? Pffffft. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/economy\/congratulations-to-bolivarian-socialism-venezuelas-60-fold-increase-in-minimum-wage-to-30-a-month\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela just hiked their minimum wage to $30<\/a>*. Your move, capitalist pigs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We should indeed praise the success of Bolivarian Socialism in Venezuela. For they\u2019ve been able to announce a 60 fold increase in the minimum wage. Isn\u2019t that a massive boost to the fight against inequality, a proof that this state control of the economy raises the living standards of the poor? No, truly, we\u2019re told, repeatedly, that raising the minimum wage is a necessary and important part of that fight against the drear circumstances facing the poor. The US minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, just think how rich we\u2019d all be if that were $435 an hour. We could all work just the one hour a week and live well. The British minimum wage, raise it to \u00a3400 or so an hour. Why not? After all, Venezuela\u2019s application of proper socialist principles has shown us what is possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Spoiler: that&#8217;s $30 per <em>month<\/em>, not per hour. But it&#8217;s a vast increase over the previous minimum wage, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen dollars as a minimum wage? Pffffft. Venezuela just hiked their minimum wage to $30*. Your move, capitalist pigs. We should indeed praise the success of Bolivarian Socialism in Venezuela. For they\u2019ve been able to announce a 60 fold increase in the minimum wage. Isn\u2019t that a massive boost to the fight against inequality, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,25,84],"tags":[96,76,398],"class_list":["post-44595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-economics","category-government","tag-minimumwage","tag-socialism","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bBh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44596,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44595\/revisions\/44596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}