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...state that Harvard must not pay more than “what is fair,” but aside from the free market, you provide no other standard of fairness. Does The Crimson Staff believe that all wages set by the free market are inherently fair? Your editorial itself suggests that you do not, given that you seem supportive of the janitors’ current wage rate of $13.50, which was itself achieved in part through a living-wage campaign at Harvard...
...later write that living wages are flawed because they calculate “the money necessary to support a decent lifestyle independent of the nature of the actual work being done, and independent of the compensation that the labor market demands.” Yes, that is the very point of a living wage. People without marketable skills deserve to have decent lifestyles, even if the free market would compensate them at a wage rate that could not support them. Either you believe that the free market always leads to fair wages, or you believe that free-market wages...
...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...
...Facebook Fanaticism,” column, Oct. 12, and “Students Rage for a Living Wage,” news...
...give an example. Say that I’m a Crimson editor writing an article about a student campaign for a living wage. “Oh,” I think to myself, “I’ll just check the Facebook group section to see if the Student Labor Action Movement has a group, and then I’ll include its group membership in my article...