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passepartoutMoney can be exchanged for goods and services!
Woo hoo!
Does that include a peanut?
I thought you were supposed to give it to billionaires for safekeeping?
No! Money is only supposed to be hoarded, so you can watch red line go up.
Homer is smarter than all conservatives combined
S-M-R-Ter you mean.
explodicleIt’s a shame that removing the crayon didn’t work for RFK.
How DARE he use MY Tax Money to make MY Life EASIER! EVERYONE knows Tax Money is meant for RICH PEOPLE and NO ONE else!
Ok, but 30$/hr for shoveling snow with the benefits of a government job is a wee too much
How much have you paid in the past for some clearing your driveway? That’s about the going rate to have someone plow your driveway and it’s way less than an hour’s work. Personally it should be more to work all day shoveling, it’s really hard work.
How so? It’s a physically demanding job, and pay also has to be scaled with the fact that NYC is one of the most expensive cities to live in.
It’s also a lot of calories burnt. Like, I would definitely need to double up on what I currently eat in meals at least if I were doing that all day and I already have an active, physically demanding job.
Shoveling snow can be dangerous in extreme cold
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 5, 2026 — According to the American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone everywhere, research shows that the exertion of shoveling snow may lead to an increased risk of a heart attack...
In NYC? Where a bottle of water is five bucks?
spinnetroubleWould $20/hr make it acceptable to you? $15? Minimum wage? When you find a point that’s different but acceptable, that’s a hangup, not a standard.
mycodesucksI once heard a way to think about this kind of comment…
It’s not that you think they’re being paid too much - it’s that you think it’s too much relative to what you make vs your own work and your own value assessment.
And that doesn’t mean they’re paid too much - it means YOU’RE probably being underpaid too. Be angry at your own boss - not the ones who pay better. This “paid too much” idea is worker vs worker class warfare to keep everyone miserable. Don’t do the capitalists’ work for them.
I know I am being underpaid and I am angry at my boss. I am just commenting from an economic point of view.
Its an emergency situation, we had the largest blizzard in 10+ years. I think paying a higher wage over a short term for exigent circumstances where you really want people to show up is reasonable. Its roughly equivalent to a mid-level salary for a garbage man (which is probably too low for garbage men, but at least they get insurance and other gov’t job perks.)
Also, they don’t get government job perks like health insurance or a pension.
Mamdani didn’t invent anything; plenty of Mayors, Dem and GOP have done the same thing when there was a blizzard.
Of course, it’s different if a GOP mayor does it…
It’s so funny to me. I point out GOP hypocrisy, but apparently I didn’t do it in the right way, so I’m getting downvoted.
It’s like you didn’t read my entire comment and just went off because you detected a slur I didn’t make.
Congratulations, you’re acting exactly like the folks who attacked Mamdani.
It doesn’t sound like you find it very funny.
Congratulations.
You’ve discovered sarcasm!
Lemmy is a bit like Reddit but without the nice factor. Love to read only the worst possible interpretation and then pile on.
I remember the very beginnings of Reddit where there was a “downvote ≠ disagree” rule and it was so much nicer. People only downvoted things that weren’t relevant or in genuinely bad faith. We’ve come a long way from those days. Now I think people get genuine dopamine hits from downvoting an already downvoted comment rather than reading it for themselves.
So let me get this straight, because I find the anger here hilarious.
I point out that Mamdani was getting bashed by the GOP for doing something that other NYC Mayors, of all parties, have done.
No, Mamdani didn’t ‘launch’ anything. The plan was already in place, decades ago.
Downvote me for laying out the facts.
What facts did I get wrong?
1: Snow happens
2: Republicans criticize Mamdani for snow not melting at below freezing
3: Mamdani announces well paying jobs as solution to get rid of snow. Right wing demagogues mock the initiative.
4: It works EXACTLY as intended, which pleases the left
5: You criticize Mamdani for not inventing the snow shovel 6000 years ago in a bog in Russia
FilthyShrooms$30/hr, $45/hr overtime
Yea… that’s how time & a half works…
A lot of seasonal workers are exempt from earning overtime.
And $30/hr doesn’t even seem all that high for a high-cost-of-living area like NY.
I read this as minimum wage needing to be higher, not snow shoveling wages needing to be lower.
Anything is an infinitely higher percentage than zero. That’s how math works. Don’t know what you’re trying to get at with that.
So is the increase in my weekly grocery bills. What’s your point?
Ok, but all that money wasted on streets could have gone to a nepo tech startup promising AI billboards that would feed ads to ppl.
/s
lumpenproletariatIf they just built some more datacentres the snow would naturally melt form the climate change.
They are literally doing their best!
(And it’s horrific beyond comprehension.)
(And it’s horrific beyond comprehension.)
Heated driveways are old school. Nowadays we need bitcoin-mining sidewalks.
You mean paying contractors exorbitant rates for slave prison labor being paid $2.00/hr?
That’s socialism!!