Starvation Wages

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Movies are intentional distortions of reality intended to deliver an emotional message in no more than 180 minutes, usually within 75 minutes. They're good for broaching a topic, but poor at deliverring facts. A good documentary and well researched articles do that part.

The movie 9 To 5 was a widely inaccurate portrayal of office work and kidnapping, but it did express the frustrations of office work and introduced possible solutions.

Is there an easy way to access this data?

Historical tables are near the bottom of the page; click the "extraction wizard" that's associated with your topic of interest.

I think the best way is through the "subject area" page:

They improved their site not long ago. You still have to drill down to find something specific, but it's not difficult.

Or you can use Google to shortcut things. For example, "BLS minimum wage," without the quotes, brings up the pages I used to answer the question in this thread.

Is there an easy way to access this data?

It falls under "liberty and justice"....

--in this respect, it means protecting society from greedy sociopaths (like Plimpton) who would force pestilence and starvation upon the populace if left unchecked.

Have you already wiped the Soviet Union from your memory?

Ignore double post. Don't know what happened.

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If you have been following this thread, the following should be of interest:

The study is important not just because it suggests how limited opportunities for mobility are in the United States. What's new is the finding that the neighborhoods in which children grow up affect their opportunities for mobility. The study suggests that poor children who grow up in communities like Detroit that don't provide income supplements for poor working families are less likely to escape poverty than those who grow up in places like San Jose in which relatively generous supplements are provided. It's difficult to get ahead, in other words, if one is so unlucky as to be born into an ungenerous community.

A related study came out just recently, lemmee see if I can find it...

Ahh here it is:

The trouble with more automation that I see is that at some point there has to a be human involved. Can trucks be unloaded and materials be unpacked and prepared by robots? Sure, but the laws of diminishing returns don't favor that high of degree of automation. My thought is to just take the art out of an operation and increase quality and consistency.

My own approach to this, is to push things as far as possible.

I cannot see, why trucks cannot be unloaded by robots.

And I am also sure that robots do not need pension and health insurance.

Everyone else can stand back and watch!

You're right that you can't stop that kind of progress. And then what?

I do not know what then. I find that sort of progress to be inevitable, but dusturbing. I am convinced that, unlike in the past, computers can replace people permanently. As the ability of computers progresses, they can replace more and more people.

If only as a consumer/customer, which implies they can afford to purchase the product...