>But back on topic: if you offer a waiter 2,000 euros / month + tips
This is poverty wages. That waiter would never be able to afford a home and family of his own. The waiter would find time to go to the beach around his work schedule if he was properly compensated.
> Yes, I find it surprising. Seems to not compute.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I have to guess that you're slave to the money, I'm not.
I really don't care about them , as long my life is not in danger.
> This is poverty wages
LOL
American, right?
Average salaries in Europe are not much higher than that
Italy: €1.740
Spain: €1.800
Portugal: €1.1160
UK: €2.200
And these numbers are after taxes (which are quite high for US standards here, but also they really are not if you wanna define yourself a decent developed Country). So the employer is spending almost 2x, which is not bad per se if you ask me, but that's still something to consider.
> . The waiter would find time to go to the beach around his work schedule if he was properly compensated.
Restaurants are closed usually at least one day/week and 2-3 weeks off-season (it depends on the geography for some it's August for others it's fall/winter).
It's just that most of them close during the week and people want to go to the beach with friends and/or family on weekends.
But then again, you don't complain that there is no job if you don't want to do any job you're cut for and are not qualified for well paid, highly skilled jobs.
Please, if you wanna discuss things, can you at least learn the bare minimum to actually have a conversation that is not entirely based on your prejudices and stereotypes?
Perhaps you could open a restaurant and pay people as much as they want to live a comfortable life. If you could do that and stay in business I would be most impressed.
Won't be able to stay in business without workers. If workers cannot live comfortably on their wages, they'll choose another job that provides those wages.
Most people earn what they can, and live off it as best they can. If that means single bedroom apartment with 10 family members eating beans and rice, then that is what it is.
People on HN tend to be out of touch with how lower income people actually live.
In my own life over the course of twenty years I went from: living in a tent with 3 others for a year, to a one bedroom apartment with a roommate in the living room, to an apartment with just my wife, to buying a house and starting a family, to then buying a house with a pool and sending my kids to decent schools.
The point is that rice and beans is temporary. As a worker, I continued to work towards better employment that provided the life I required. The vast majority of folks I knew along the way did the same. All 4 of the folks in that original tent with me are comfortably middle class nowadays.
Yes, I find it surprising. Seems to not compute.
>But back on topic: if you offer a waiter 2,000 euros / month + tips
This is poverty wages. That waiter would never be able to afford a home and family of his own. The waiter would find time to go to the beach around his work schedule if he was properly compensated.