{"id":1135,"date":"2009-02-18T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2009-02-18T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:06:21","slug":"living-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Living Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Mcardle has a <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/a_living_wage.php\">great discussion<\/a> on the living wage nonsense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>n the popular mind, every blue collar worker in 1950 was pulling down a hefty wage at GM, but union membership peaked at about a third of workers, and most of those jobs were at companies that didn&#8217;t have the profits, or the freedom from competition, to support those kinds of wages.  A lot more blue collar workers were people like the mechanics and pump operators at my grandfather&#8217;s gas station, who raised families on . . . the kind of money you could generate working at a gas station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Mcardle has a great discussion on the living wage nonsense: n the popular mind, every blue collar worker in 1950 was pulling down a hefty wage at GM, but union membership peaked at about a third of workers, and most of those jobs were at companies that didn&#8217;t have the profits, or the freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Wages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-ij","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}