Raising the minimum wage won't help

[Rev. Rye]

You're talking about large companies there who are making massive profits and are also giving out massive amounts of money in director bonii and share buyback schemes.  They can easily afford to employ people full time on far greater than a €15 per hour wage.

Back in the day when I worked shop assistant I calculated what I'd get if I was given a flat commission on 0.5% of what I rang through the till.  It averaged at €800 per week, more than twice my then weekly wage c. €320 a week.

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Capitalism, by the end of the 70s the USSR was running almost a pure capitalist economic model.

Jesus fuck you are so full of shit...

Where do you come up with this insane bullshit?

You have no idea what you are talking about.


Did you ever actually meet a Soviet?

I sure the fuck did.....

I did boardings on Soviet ships back in the.late 1970's and met the people - including the Captain and zampolit (political officer - introduced as the first officer) 

The crew - were pretty nice guys and did have a bit of a capitalistic streak to them.- when the zampolit wasn't in earshot. They loved trading vodka (Stolichnaya, Staar and Privyet) for American cigarettes.....

But when the "first" was there - they were all business..... Communism good - capitalism bad.....

The Soviets sure the fuck wre NOT capitalists.....

Are you going to answer Angrboda’s question about why the Soviet economy failed and how it relates to increasing the minimum wage or not? Are you going to prove you’re not just talking shit when you make that comparison or not? Are you going to prove a coward who makes bullshit assertions and refuses to defend them when called out on it or are you actually going to rise to the occasion that you set for yourself?