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Harvard students get upset about a lot of things. Granted, getting a “living wage?? for our janitorial staff is extremely important. But perhaps there are other issues out there that are of more importance...
Given those options, it seems difficult to justify campaigning for such an exorbitantly high wage for unskilled labor. Worse yet, the real tragedy is that the Living-wage campaign at Harvard and those like it elsewhere detract from the importance of the minimum wage??the institution towards which the efforts of groups like SLAM should be directed...
...response to your editorial “Don’t Increase the ‘Living Wage??” (Oct. 13), I’d like to propose a modest alternative. The wage labor system itself (i.e., capitalism) should be abolished, and everyone guaranteed an ample livelihood, free from material anxiety, with a drastically reduced working week in a democratically-run workplace, where all managers would be elected and recallable. Yes, friends, I’m talking about the ‘s’ word: socialism...
...Uncounted Costs of a Living Wage??), Vivek G. Ramaswamy argues that securing higher wages for Harvard workers would “inextricably yet fatefully marry” human worth to monetary worth, and that this would somehow result in Harvard students acting in a condescending manner toward Harvard workers. If Ramaswamy would start acting in a condescending manner to Harvard workers simply because Harvard chose to pay them enough money to live above the poverty line, that tells us something about Ramaswamy’s moral condition, not about the relative merits of the living-wage campaign. Regardless...
...activists expect to target an additional four states. At the same time, unions and community groups around the country have persuaded cities to pay more to their employees. As I write, activists in our own Cambridge are working on a minimum wage increase. (Technically, a “living wage?? law only raises the pay of city employees and the employees of private firms who do business with the city. A pay raise for a whole city or a whole state is simply a “minimum wage increase.” Why some people insist...