I've linked to this before, but - in light of all the Bigfood / Peter Caine videos I've been watching I thought I'd visit it again. Still LOL funny.
I mean, she's skeptical:
He was seeking advice and suggestions because he said, "I am trying to communicate with Bigfoot and I was wondering how you communicate with dolphins."
I read the email twice and wondered if the writer was joking....
Two weeks later, I received a gift in return. The Sasquatch had chosen a rock for me. A heavy quartz rock, weighing 5 pounds with many little crystal bits within it, gleaming in the light. Along with it came a piece of crumbled paper. On it was the carefully printed words: FOR WATER WOMAN.
Could this be true? I was still doubting the veracity of this.
They should go on a youTube Date, Joan Ocean as the skeptical Dana Scully to Peter Caine's too gullible Fox Mulder...the Truth is out There!
LINK: Joan Ocean - The Sasquatch Letters
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A well written and well informed article on the effects of a living minimum wage, as applied in Australia.
In the hospitality industry - front of house wages are largely subsidized by tips, and I for one prefer that model to others - it gives the customer a leeway and ability to contribute to the situation and keeps servers/bartenders actively interested in the quality of service. But for back of house positions, fast food, retail, this makes a lot of sense. And I remember so many customers at the old restaurant would argue against it.
I especially like the quote:
The principle that employees must be paid a "living wage" dates back to a 1907 decision of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, which stated that if an employer was unable to pay a living wage, it was not entitled to operate a business. A living wage was defined in the decision as being sufficient to permit an unskilled worker, a dependent spouse and three dependent children to live in "frugal comfort."
It makes sense. But in Alberta, wow, what a moral panic...
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Many of his points translate well to Canada. Only while in Canada we don't have healthcare costs (not overwhelming, anyways), we do have a much greater cost for real estate. Everywhere. A good read that articulates many of the broken points in our current economy.
Link: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/?mobile=1
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Having relied on this for a few years I was a little annoyed to see that someone else wrote the article I should have been working on. Well, not the same, completely different in fact, and much, much better.
Link: https://longreads.com/2017/12/13/the-human-cost-of-the-ghost-economy/
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