Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!Q.T.Honey!newsfeed.rim.or.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tipping in Japan Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:08:41 +0900 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <40DA45B9.7020707@hotmail.com> References: <2jt47rF15hj8bU1@uni-berlin.de> <230620040758463908%222ggg@spam.really.sucks> <40D99EEE.2050505@hotmail.com> <2jur5fF164j1vU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de YVd7cJ+U8aXFh6U8+WUX8Au7VAWMErZBJwMICLv/p8mznSzo/M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <2jur5fF164j1vU1@uni-berlin.de> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14828 Ryan Ginstrom wrote: > Declan Murphy wrote: > >>minimum wage should be a living wage - if that can't be done without >>an increase in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment >>(nairu) then some form of negative income taxation system would do >>the job. > > Sepponia has one, but it doesn't quite do the trick. Back when I was an > impoverished student working my way through college, the gub-ment gave me > something like $300/year as my little bonus for staying off of welfare. > Didn't exactly pay the rent. I'm not sure what the current maximum bursary in Oz or Ireland is for fulltime students from low income backgrounds, but when I was studying it was still a fair bit less than the minimum wage (though shitloads more than USD$300/year). And fair enough. > Funny thing about Sepponians is that while they generally hate the rich, > they also hate the poor, and anything that sounds like a handout. That isn't something as peculiar to Sepponia as you may or may not think. -- "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"