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the bribe society pays you to keep showing up tomorrow
means a fixed regular payment, usually calculated by the hour, day, or week, that a worker receives in exchange for labor.
from From Old North French 'wage' (standard Old French 'gage'), meaning a pledge or pawn — something put down as security. It traces back to a Germanic root related to 'wed' and 'wager,' the idea of a binding promise. So a wage was once literally a pledge: payment promised in return for service. The same root branches into 'gage' (a pledge of honor) and 'engage.' To wage war, oddly, comes from the same place — to 'pledge' yourself to a fight.
- latin root
- comes from 'wadium', meaning a pledge or promise
- minimum law
- first national one debuted in New Zealand, 1894
- frozen value
- real US wages have barely budged since 1973
- wager kin
- same root as 'wager' — both are bets
minimum wage — us federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour established in 2009
london living wage — £12.82/hour for workers in london as of 2024
swiss minimum wage ballot — 2014 swiss referendum rejected 22 franc/hour minimum wage