I wish when governments said they want to be competitive with China they did like the one thing China does that would raise our quality of life. As in make trains.
In 2021, 1.4% of workers in the United States were paid hourly rates at or below the official minimum wage. The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 1.9% in 2019 to 1.5% in 2020, which remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979. Around 44.3 percent of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates at or below the federal minimum wage were aged between 16 to 24 years.
I wish when governments said they want to be competitive with China they did like the one thing China does that would raise our quality of life. As in make trains.
People: Can we have competitive with china [trains]?
Governments: we have Competitive with china at home.
Competitive with china at home: Low wages and no labor rights.
Don’t forget surveillance and erasure of minorities!
China: working from 9 to 9 six days a week, with lower wages
And there are some Americans working similarly because they have rent to pay
So you’re saying they are getting paid for overtime
Probably working 2 jobs without OT
Chinese only get one salary and still expected to work that much
I wouldn’t consider US min wage with US prices a whole salary.
In 2021, 1.4% of workers in the United States were paid hourly rates at or below the official minimum wage. The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 1.9% in 2019 to 1.5% in 2020, which remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979. Around 44.3 percent of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates at or below the federal minimum wage were aged between 16 to 24 years.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm