{"id":7068,"date":"2014-10-17T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T18:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2014-10-17T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T18:29:20","slug":"socialists-push-for-20-minimum-wage-but-wont-pay-workers-that-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/17\/socialists-push-for-20-minimum-wage-but-wont-pay-workers-that-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists Push For $20 Minimum Wage But Won\u2019t Pay Workers That Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom Socialist Party wants the minimum wage to be $20 an hour. However, they don\u2019t feel compelled to compensate their own workers with that kind of cash.<\/p>\n<p>The party is looking for a web developer, and posted a job listing on Craigslist a week ago and Indeed.com yesterday, and it\u2019s been raising eyebrows on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Although the average annual salary of a web developer in the U.S. is around $62,500, the Freedom Socialist Party only wants to pay $13 an hour, which would be $26,000 a year. Except that the party won\u2019t hire someone full-time, so their next web developer\u2019s total compensation won\u2019t even be that modest chunk of change. Perhaps they\u2019re just trying to protect their employees from the temptations of \u201ccapitalist greed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>One could argue that it\u2019s not fair to pick on small organizations like the Freedom Socialist Party, because they can\u2019t afford high-pay web developers. Given the requirements they list, chances are they\u2019re looking for a high school or college student who is just starting out in the field. But, these are exact reasons why people argue against artificially high minimum wages. It\u2019s not \u201ccapitalist greed,\u201d but an understanding that it puts a barrier between small organizations with limited funding and low-skill workers who want to earn experience.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/socialists-push-for-20-minimum-wage-but\" href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/socialists-push-for-20-minimum-wage-but\">http:\/\/reason.com\/bl \u2026 -20-minimum-wage-but<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom Socialist Party wants the minimum wage to be $20 an hour. However, they don\u2019t feel compelled to compensate their own workers with that kind of cash. The party is looking for a web developer, and posted a job listing on Craigslist a week ago and Indeed.com yesterday, and it\u2019s been raising eyebrows on social media. Although the average annual salary of a web developer in the U.S. is around $62,500, the Freedom Socialist Party only wants to pay $13 an hour, which would be $26,000 a year. Except that the party won\u2019t hire someone full-time, so their next web developer\u2019s total compensation won\u2019t even be that modest chunk of change. Perhaps they\u2019re just trying to protect their employees from the temptations of \u201ccapitalist greed.\u201d \u2026 One could argue that it\u2019s not fair to pick on small organizations like the Freedom Socialist Party, because they can\u2019t afford high-pay web developers. Given the requirements they list, chances are they\u2019re looking for a high school or college student who is just starting out in the field. But, these are exact reasons why people argue against artificially high minimum wages. It\u2019s not \u201ccapitalist greed,\u201d but an understanding that it puts a barrier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}