Quote:
Originally Posted by Jensen
are the wagers so insanly low in the states that people can't afford $4.10 gas?
|
Well yeah. You can see that rising gas prices are gouging people that are used to paying half of that for gas. But they are obviously still being paid the same.
For instance restaurants where servers are paid $2.00/hour and then the rest of the employees' wages are decided/passed on to the consumer to pay in the form of "tips"
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm