Intent is NOT the difference between murder and manslaughter. That’s a really common misconception. You can not intend to cause a death and be convicted of murder where your conduct was extremely reckless or showed a disregard for human life. On the other hand you can intend to kill someone and only get manslaughter,…

Double, ignore.

If you’re really a lawyer I’m shocked you’re not familiar with scienter, which is an element of a lot of white collar crime and requires knowledge of wrongdoing. Mueller’s report even references it by name. It doesn’t help anyone to add an imprimatur of expertise to false criticisms of Mueller’s team.

Is Documentary Now! ending for good? I thought the third season finale was only a season finale.

Because some jobs are so low skill/no skill that it makes no sense. Your overly simplistic argument doesn’t work for a majority of reasons, one of them being location and its associated cost of living. Bagging groceries might be enough to get you by in Waterloo, Iowa, but that’s not going to happen in Los Angeles or…

WHY should that person be able to make a living wage in a job that doesn’t pay one?

You are so dense dude. I don’t know how many more ways to say this: if you’re working—whether you’re a teenager or a disabled person or bald or an apprentice or deaf or blind—you deserve t make enough to live. This isn’t complicated. It has no effect on competition; in fact it levels the playing field. It makes no…

YES! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING HOW THICK ARE YOU?!

You know inflation is calculated by looking at the cost of goods right? Inflation isn’t some magical number tied intrinsically to currency. It’s defined by how much you can get for a dollar now versus how much you could get for a dollar some time in the past. Some goods get cheaper over time, sure. But that’s factored…

Where did I say $250k should be the living wage? I didn’t. I was only presenting my experience to show that even people with good jobs making good money are taking on roommates despite your flippant and insulting claim that people aren’t doing that.

Good businesses are businesses that sell a product profitably enough to pay their workers and give their owners a fair return on their investment. If businesses can’t afford to pay their workers, it’s a bad business. I don’t particularly care why they can’t afford to pay their workers; if they can’t then they deserve…

If you’re referring to the Galt guy, I definitely noticed. The “monetary policy” argument and avatar were also tipoffs that this guy is probably a goldbug and/or Fed conspiracy theorist. I had a whole thing about Rand and Fed conspiracy theories typed up but really didn’t want to get into it.

Nobody is prohibiting part-time work, supplemental work, or seasonal work. We’re saying that if all your work adds up to at least a full-time job’s worth of work, you are entitled to have the wages from that work add up to a living wage.

So you just ignored my entire second paragraph? In that case I’m going to exercise my prerogative to ignore your entire comment, since it’s clear you’re not interested in actually engaging what I have to say.

Where was I talking about CEOs? You made a stupid fucking analogy and I pointed out why it was stupid. You’ve now abandoned that and completely changed the subject.

But we already have wage definition on a large-scale. It’s called the minimum wage. Nobody is arguing that shit shovelers and doctors should be paid the same. We’re arguing that a shit-shoveler should be able to at least live on his wage.

So some jobs only exist as object lessons? Are you implying that McDonald’s only employs people so they can learn that working at McDonald’s sucks? And what about the people who never make it out of the McDonald’s: do they deserve to starve while a multi-billion dollar corporation profits from their labor?

Is somebody else making money off of your work? Then yes. That’s what we call an employer/employee relationship: I sell you my labor so you can sell the product of that labor. If I’m not selling my labor then no, I should not be paid a wage (note I am distinguishing between a wage and an income here; UBI is an…

This is such an obtuse take I have to imagine that at this point you’re trolling. To start with the most practical question: How does someone making $8 an hour raise the capital for a new business?

That’s assuming the money just isn’t there to pay. Which simply isn’t true. Wealth has been increasing, but is disproportionately concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Workers have seen vanishingly few of these gains; despite being more productive than ever we’re paid less than our parents were for the same or…