[Alan]

Originally Posted by Despanan

I have it good? I work for ten dollars an hour for a non-profit, and can get less than 30 hours a week, in the most expensive city in the world. I can barely even make rent. Let alone pay for my lavish lifestyle (a bottle of cheap gin and one open mike night a week).

Yeah, I'm mister trust-fund moneybags.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ten dollars an hour is NOT minimum wage over there, is it?
So you complain about earning 140% that of most low income class people living in the same most expensive city in the world?
A further argument below.

So clearly, because some people are paid too much or too little for their actual contribution to society, my apartment should belong to "the people" right? 'cause that crackhead across the street is totally NOT allowed to sleep on my couch.

Obviously you can only argue your point with hyperbole, because that's how socialism works.

wait, what about minimum wage?...that's sort of the norm in most "capitalist" societies...unless you've gone all "yoda" again and started spouting word salad, or you're trying to argue against anarcho-capitalism which, as I've pointed out, is a straw-man.

"What about minimum wage?"
Indeed, what about it?
A real minimum wage is not the norm in almost any part of the free-market world. And yet you bitch about how you don't have it good.
Not only is the pursuit of a minimum wage won by radical trade unionism consciously opposed to capitalism, and at the expense of thousands of workers' lives; but aside from that, you're being so fucking eurocentric right now.
The increasingly welfarist European states have decent wage standards and America has at least a minimum wage; therefore fuck the third world, main producer of prime materials, and the underclassed millions in America who must be doing something bad if their businesses still pay less than minimum wage - the "sort of norm in 'capitalist' societies"

Once again...I make barely $1,400 a month working for a non-profit, in a city where my rent is $1050 a month. I'm on food stamps. Which one of us thought about transferring to an ivy-league school and paying out $80-$100,000 just so they could bang a chick?

Neither. Transferring from my university program with my GPA allowed me to pay the same thing in another college as mine for a year: 1,200.
But it's nice to know ad hominems are back on the table.

yeah I thought so.

Thought what? You were wrong.

No, my boss deserves more money because he has devoted years of his finite time on this planet to raising money for education instead of following his acting career.

So I ask you again; if your argument is as stupidly simplistic as "he earns more because he works more," then someone who earns a hundred times what you earn works a hundred times what you work? Does it go viceversa?
Man! Those Braceros sure are fucking lazy, then!