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US socialist group thinks developers are slaves

by on17 October 2014



Some are more equal than others

George Orwell would be having a laugh at the antics of the Freedom Socialist Party in the US.

In 2012 the lefty organisation pushed for a dramatic change in the minimum wage – they wanted $20 per hour minimum wage, even for the most basic jobs. It was a good lefty platform and one, which in the US, most sane people who do not sacrifice owls to the ghost of Ayn Rand could probably get behind.

The only problem is that the Freedom Socialist party clearly did not believe its own policy. It has advertised for a web developer, as you do, but it is only prepared to pay the princely sum of $13 an hour. (But it's 13 socialist dollars. Ed) 

So in other words, it is ok to pay people to flip burgers $20 an hour, but those nasty web developers should work for less. It is not even as if you are allowed to save a bit of dosh telecommuting. Like most organisations with their fingers on the pulse, the party insists that you commute to their office so that they can oversee your work.

It appears, to quote George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “some are more equal than others.”

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