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$30/hour is about $60K/year.

That's an absolutely livable wage in NYC. You might need a roommate, but it's easily achievable. I lived there for almost a decade (recently), but since you shouldn't trust random people on the internet, here's the MIT living wage calculator:

• Manhattan: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061
• Brooklyn: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36047
• Bronx: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36005
• Staten Island: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36085
• Queens: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36081

As a single adult with no kids, you're just barely under the "living" wage in most of those, but well above "poverty" in all of them. In any borough, with a roommate, you're cruising comfortably (see the "2 Adults (Both Working): 0 Children" column). In the Bronx, as a single adult with no kids, $30 is above the living wage mark.

It's also worth noting, people may live outside the city, but take a train or subway in for work. Living just outside the city brings costs down quite a bit.

I don't know if you have ever seen snow before but... this isn't a full time job.

The issue with public transport is that it's an investment that will pay off in years, not next quarter, or even next election. They don't give a fuck if it doesn't benefit them specifically, and right now.

Also, it evens the field. They don't want this because the bottom having more means they are less above them.

And it's not a new concept either, it has been proven many times and there's plenty of case studies. High speed rail too, all over Europe, China and Japan. But when your job has been given to you by an oil company donation...

Plus all the money paid out in wages went back into the local economy for rent, food, etc. It didn't go to offshore tax havens.

I’d love to know what the economic ROI is on paying people that much to clear snow. I bet it’s huge in NYC.

Conservative don't want to make things better for everyone, they want to make things better for themselves.

This makes them short sighted and only see the money right in front of their face, which in this case, is going into the pockets of people shovelling snow.

They don't see the benefit because it doesn't benefit them immediately.

But you can bet your life that they will reap the benefit as they pull themselves up by other peoples bootstraps.

Besides that, people are struggling to make ends meet. If the city pays them to do something, that money isn't just staying in saving accounts. They are going to spend it, likely very very soon.

Because everything's a get rich quick scheme or a scam, investments to them are rigging bets on polymarket

Let’s not forget also, that when you pay people directly they go and spend that money. Businesses cannot have customers if the customers don’t have money. The reason why money is kept so tight is a) blind greed and b) because then people can only afford to patronize Walmart or Amazon, not their local stores.

Conservatives like to act as though raising minimum wage will kill local businesses despite the fact that that is not how that works.

No! Money is only supposed to be hoarded, so you can watch red line go up.

Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.

That's oddly specific, did I miss something?

You mean paying contractors exorbitant rates for ~~slave~~ prison laborers being paid $2.00/hr while the executives pocket most of the money?

A lot of seasonal workers are exempt from earning overtime.