• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    That sounds more like an argument for journalists being better compensated too, rather than saying the software engineers should be happy with less.

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      21 days ago

      You hear this a lot in nursing too when people talk about how nursing assistants should make more. “But that’s what I make and I have more education and am responsible for more!” Correct, your pay should rise as well.

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        21 days ago

        And the solution to this is always to raise minimum wage, because skilled labor pay must be higher than unskilled labor pay. If minimum wage goes up, other wages must also go up in order to attract and keep workers in more demanding jobs. Raising minimum wage fixes wages across the board.

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      21 days ago

      someone else’s shit sandwich doesn’t make mine taste any better.

      The journalists should join them if they’re also unhappy.

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      21 days ago

      Are sympathy strikes permitted in the US?

      They are here and it rules!

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      21 days ago

      It’s not. There wasn’t an argument. The question was “why are they striking?”