“Any person who thinks that a $15 minimum wage is the ‘crazy socialist agenda’ is living in a dystopian capitalist nightmare.” -@AOC pic.twitter.com/yIUw1NyQco— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) March 1, 2021
Aiming high is good, but there's a danger of aiming so high that people conclude you don't know what you're doing. If you message someone about the price of some Craigslist furniture and they say they'll sell it for a million bucks, you aren't thinking "I can talk this person down," you're thinking "I'm not even sure I should bother with this person." If you even make a counter offer, it'll be what you had planned on offering in the first place, because you're smart enough to see through something so transparent. And if their roommates are relying on them to sell the furniture and they don't get any traction with their million bucks tactic, they're going to lose support from their roommates sooner than if they were asking for a lower price.
Not if we all had guns.
also fine, we ask for $25 / hour. My point is we should be shooting high.
$15 / hour at full time gets you a room in an apartment with roommates in a lot of cities.
Aiming high is good, but there's a danger of aiming so high that people conclude you don't know what you're doing. If you message someone about the price of some Craigslist furniture and they say they'll sell it for a million bucks, you aren't thinking "I can talk this person down," you're thinking "I'm not even sure I should bother with this person." If you even make a counter offer, it'll be what you had planned on offering in the first place, because you're smart enough to see through something so transparent. And if their roommates are relying on them to sell the furniture and they don't get any traction with their million bucks tactic, they're going to lose support from their roommates sooner than if they were asking for a lower price.