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5123125 | 9 months ago

yeah but their point is 60+ hours workweek for a median income

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imgabe|9 months ago

So it's a below median income job (as 50% of all jobs necessarily are) with the option to increase your income by working more. Still not exploitation.

There are salaried employees making less who also work 60 hours a week and don't even get overtime (granted, their jobs are likely less physically demanding).

johnnyanmac|9 months ago

I don't think you're understanding the long term implications of this, nor how expensive it is these days to simply live. People don't understand that soke areas can barely live on median income to begin with and that these aren't just "nice to have" hours, but needed to survive. I will call that exploitation.

>There are salaried employees making less who also work 60 hours a week and don't even get overtime

Those are called exempt jobs and they tend to start at 80k for that to qualify. I still don't like it but baby steps.

If you're non-exempt and have unpaid overtime... How is that not exploitation?