The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Anteater]

So you don't want a federally mandated higher minimum wage? Let's say it was 25 instead of the suggested 15 an hour. The whole reason your current wage isn't good enough is because inflation has a nasty effect on the overall cost of living. It would go a lot further under other circumstances.

If inflation and the rising cost of goods/services weren't in the picture at all, then the minimum wages set decades ago would still allow someone to basically live a middle class lifestyle, right?

[jwb]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

It just seemed like a sly dig that was supposed to be cutting.



Using a lot of words to say nothing.



Still somehow disavowing all of that nothing.

yeh not sure how you got that

I was being serious.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Anteater

So you don't want a federally mandated higher minimum wage? Let's say it was 25 instead of the suggested 15 an hour. The whole reason your current wage isn't good enough is because inflation has a nasty effect on the overall cost of living. It would go a lot further under other circumstances.

If inflation and the rising cost of goods/services weren't in the picture at all, then the minimum wages set decades ago would still allow someone to basically live a middle class lifestyle, right?

[OccultHawk]

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/21/afr...rnd/index.html

American drowns after proposing to his girlfriend underwater in Tanzania

Yikes.

[The Batlord]

Sounds like he dodged a bullet.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by elphenor

the very reason the $7.25 federal minimum wage is well below the poverty line in 2019 is that inflation happens independent of the minimum wage

Correct, which is why I said it really needs it's own discussion separate from the stats we were going over as well as the minimum wage itself.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/6-y...fter-incident/

Florida police officer fired after arresting pair of 6-year-olds

100% siding with the cop here. I don’t care what the article says.

[The Batlord]

Vivisect the little bastards!

[Frownland]

Hey Macarthur Grant, nice taste. Excited to see if any particularly ambitious projects come out of this.

Mary Halvorson Wins 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Hey Macarthur Grant, nice taste. Excited to see if any particularly ambitious projects come out of this.

Mary Halvorson Wins 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant

Nice. I’ve been intermittently reading a book on free jazz from the 60’s recently and was surprised to learn how important private grants and university and government funding were to the genre. Cecil Taylor, Mingus, Art Ensemble of Chicago for example - according to this book - they survived more on financing by subsidies to the “black arts” than by gigging, touring, and record sales.

I definitely think Halvorson is a fantastic choice, the perfect choice even, and we’re going to get some great ****ing music out of it.

This isn’t jazz but I wrote about this on Freak Fighter because these avant garde composers really did need those sweetheart tenured profs jobs.

https://www.musicbanter.com/2064349-post1026.html
https://www.musicbanter.com/2064350-post1027.html

Wuorinen may come across as an entitled child by our standards but none-the-less his music needed to exist.