I support the abolishing minimum wage laws. We have the right to work for whatever pay we agree on with our employers. I owe my current career to working WELL BELOW minimum wage when I was almost 30. Here's how sub-minimum wage work opens up opportunity.
After working in public policy for over 10 years straight, I decided to switch careers and get involved in the exciting and rapidly-growing crypto and blockchain industry. But I had no relevant experience. I could write, but that's it. So I got a job with a news publication. They paid me ~$20 per article (in Bitcoin), and it took me several hours to finish each in the beginning. I worked my ass off for not much over $10k per year. It was a struggle, but I fed myself and got the experience needed to still work and live on crypto 8 years later.
Having little experience, there's no way I would have gotten the job if they had to pay $15+/hr. I would have had to work as an unpaid intern, which I could not have afforded at the time. This job flexibility can help a lot of people!
Remember, a $15 minimum wage doesn't mean every job that paid less must now pay more. It just makes it illegal to work for $1, $2, $3, etc. The real minimum wage is, and always will be, $0. If whatever a job paid before is now illegal, $0 is the new wage.
We need MORE sub-minimum wage jobs, not fewer. Preferably stackable ones. Imagine being paid $5/hr. each to moderate 5 separate online forums over the weekend. Just sitting around in your jam-jams for a few hours occasionally banning trolls for $25/hr., not a bad life! Read Frédéric Bastiat's What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen. Lots of times when you don't understand basic economics, you end up causing way more harm than good.
Thanks for reading everyone, enjoy your week! ☮️
I just wonder when Lightning will start to achieve trust-minimized adoption levels similar to what on-chain did.
Vast majority of Bitcoin Lightning payments are custodial, even more are hard-coded into a single centralized node.
This was NOT the case for Bitcoin on-chain adoption in the early days.🤷♂️
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Dim daylight is better than no light for sure!
At 10am EST/3pm UTC this Friday (new time) Sven and Rodrigo from the Dash Investment Foundation, which gave Ionia its seed funding, come on the Dash Podcast
Cabin fever is a real thing. Get some sunshine and exercise people!
What's ego training?
The ultimate winners and losers in the cryptospace will be shockingly different from what may seem obvious today.
Get ready for the mighty to fall and comeback kings to return! 👑
Squats are extremely useful. Until about age 30+ I did almost exclusively lower-body development due to taekwondo, and my upper body neglect hardly manifested in overall "functional strength" due to just how much you can do with your legs.
Also allowed me to get fat without noticing because I could still do jump spin kicks, so there's that LOL
This is the real reason so many people love steak: almost no mise en place
This stuff blows my mind. Crypto to spending almost anywhere in just a few seconds. 🤯This will let almost anyone live unbanked off crypto!
#NationalDivorce is trending on Twitter and as a Free State Project mover I'm here for it!
PSA: Your project is great. But without the end-user apps and integrations, your project actually kinda sucks. 🧠
Great time with Ian, you know we're on to something when we independently come to the same conclusions about Twitter-first promo, ground-up community building, and more.
"Learning on the job" is redundant. The only way to truly learn how to do something is by doing it. Beware of "experts" who have never actually done anything!