I have actually been noticing that salaries have actually been slowly going down while cost of living has been going up. I have been hearing about a lot of people having to take a pay cut or not getting raises anymore due to companies basically giving the ultimatum of, you can take a pay cut or you can pack up your…

They’ve actually gone down in most cases. Corporations desperate to recover their lost profits has been extremely cheap with salaries. part timers, consultants and H1B’s are on the rise.

I’m the paralegal Puja quoted. I worked at a major litigation firm (Boies, Schiller & Flexner), and indeed received time and a half pay for overtime. I worked 100 hour work weeks, 7 days a week for a year, which bumped my $35k base to about $55k by year’s end. I still lived with 3 roommates in a shitty Stuyvesant Town…

I agree, I don’t know all the mechanism that go into making it look like we are on a “profitable” trajectory.

It is confirmed that living expenses including rent, collage, food, public transportation have all greatly gone up decade over decade and salaries have not. Salaries have only gone up for the very top level positions of businesses and corporations.

I don’t know why you’d exclude real estate (and rent), education and healthcare from inflation. I get that there are various indexes for inflation and that the cpi is just an average, but saying wages have kept up with 2% inflation while rent is increasing 5% every year is just kinda ridiculous, no?

Yup, most salaries haven’t even kept up with inflation.

Yeah, that’s just as unbelievable as affording these apartments.

the cost of living has risen since then, and it’s safe to conclude that salaries have risen along with it.

“No, I can’t point to him. But would picking him up and pile-driving his arrogant head into the ground count?”

Eh that’s not true for the example you used. If you were out and public and the picture was taken, yeah ok. If you’re violating their privacy, like the Erin Andrews suit from years back, then no there’s no such thing as freedom of the press.

Because 15K in damages is nothing to the traffic and excess ad revenue posting it brought in.

I understand that you are right that this was likely perfectly legal, however, was it ethical? To put it another way, would you have done it?

You both are right/wrong.

I did and I admit to being way too black and white sometimes.

Because it ... probably was? You should read articles before commenting on them!

Okay, how in the hell did they think posting his private medical records was legal? Really?

Prosecutor: “Now Mr. Pierre-Paul, is the man who tweeted your medical records in the courtroom today?”

I know that this isn’t really relevant to this story, but I couldn’t resist: