Ed Peters on Nostr: "<GOW> was published in 1939 and maps out all the same problems we see today: ...
https://skepchick.org/2023/12/pizza-hut-is-lying-theyre-not-firing-their-drivers-because-of-a-minimum-wage-hike/"<GOW> was published in 1939 and maps out all the same problems we see today: industry setting wages low, knowing if one man won’t accept 30 cents for a 50-cent job, a hungrier man will; claiming they can’t afford to pay more while living in luxury; firing, arresting, beating, and murdering the people who even discuss banding together to demand a living wage; paying scabs higher wages until the people who are striking are done away with, and then paying them even less"
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