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Old 06-27-2008, 02:54 AM  
Jensen
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Originally Posted by deejne View Post
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
kind of sick to know that a 16 year old starting at mcdonalds in norway would make $24/hour ... not saying that servers can't make that much and more over there, but the difference seemes insane
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