Gross Geneva monthly minimum wage is CHF 4426 or $4,940 according to a quick Google. In the US it’s $1,330.

Edit. Even the highest US local minimum wage of $17 an hour is $2,992 a month.

I would say the reliability of pay is a good reason. Tipped workers can’t count on a consistent amount of money. A bad month or even a bad week can mean rent doesn’t get paid.

The expression of mental health problems varies widely based on the cause. Societal and cultural pressures are vastly different for different groups. Men in general are 4 times more likely to commit suicide than women for example. Women are twice as likely as men to suffer major depression.hormones also impact the expression of mental illness. Men experiencing depression are more likely to exhibit irritability, sudden anger, increased loss of control, risk-taking, and aggression. Men are also more likely to feel social pressure to deal with their problems alone and are more likely to turn to drugs or alcohol.

I’m not referring to skin color, but the social construct.

They clearly list the methodology they use on their website.

As much as it sounds like you don’t like what you have, it’s still better than the US.

Not really. One side runs on hate. The other side is willing to cross the aisle but won’t compromise to the extreme level the other side demands. Look at the border bill. It was a fair bipartisan compromise, but it wasn’t far enough for the right.

In my case it’s a security job, so it’s not like you need twice as many people one day. But I can see how that would work for certain industries.

Agreed, but that makes it a MUCH harder problem to solve.

The trick is how to make this work with 24/7 businesses. Now we have a set of 5 day workers that have full benefits and 2 day workers that have partial benefits. If the full benefit workers only work 4 days and the partial benefits workers now work 3, they will be pushing for full benefits as well. That means more cost to the business.

I think it’s considered center left based on US politics. Our Overton window has shifted pretty far. The Swiss have universal healthcare and strict gun control. That can’t be right by US standards.

Harris’s proposal specifically includes an income limit to prevent people like hedge fund managers and lawyers from structuring their pay as “tips”. Trump’s version predictability does not.

Or a James Earl Jones. I’m not picky.

Biden can just mint a trillion dollar platinum cost and pay the debt with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin

I’m not going to pretend that I don’t have asinine opinions on guns, but there is very little anything but the most authoritarian gun control can do about school shootings without first addressing the social problems behind it. We would be just as likely to get kids building bombs or driving cars through crowds.

One would think it would be a bipartisan idea that a kid with two parents who are addicts should receive some sort of government intervention.

And how many trans people have you worked with?

This shooting in particular shows major society-level failures. The parents were victims of the opiate crisis. Society failed to treat that problem at an appropriate level when it first cropped up and they failed to claw back the profits pharmaceutical companies made off creating addicts. We failed to fund school mental health services that could have helped a child who everyone knew was struggling. Society failed to recognize and address the domestic violence situation, failed to intervene when the child was being raised by addicts, and failed to remove guns from such a volatile situation. There are so many levels on which any significant intervention could have prevented this chain of events.

Zombie Prostitute gets stuck in my head on a regular basis.

That’s so cool! I’ve been a fan of Voltaire for a long time. Saw him live a couple times and the show is always a blast.