NationStates Jolt Archive

Athens and Midlands has made a proposal to ensure every citizen in the world are paid £6 per hour (or equivalent). This proposal could end poverty, financially. Please approve it.

Here's the proposal text.

Minimum Wages
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Athens and Midlands

Description: CONCERNED that so many people in some parts of the world are insufficiently paid enough to live on.

CONCERNED that so many people are in poverty because that particular country has no official minimum wage.

CALLS for all nations to adopt a common minimum wage system.

RECOMMENDS that all citizens should be paid the standard minimum wage of Six Pounds Sterling per hour, which may be adjusted according to the country’s current inflation and currency.

RECOMMENDS that all citizens should be paid more than the stated minimum wage if the work is deemed manual.


Approvals: 1 (Athens and Midlands)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 131 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Aug 27 2005

This is not reality. £ does not mean the real UK pound sterling, it refers to whichever nations have chosen to name their currencies pounds - but the Bigtopian Pound might have a different value to the Liliputian Pound, and they probably won't have the same value as the real-life British Pound that we know.

Apart from this, setting a universal minimum wage is a bad plan because living costs very wildly between the tens of thousands of nations making up the NSUN. Looking at reality, clearly to afford equal standards of living a UK worker needs a higher wage than most people in poor African nations , because most things are cheaper in these African nations than in the UK.

Plus the way you've written it, it seems to recommend that everyone should be paid £6 an hour.

This is not a good proposal. You don't appear to include justifying arguments for your various declarations. Furthermore, let's look at some figures. The average annual wage in Gruenberg is something in the region of £3,000, adjusted on a PPP scale.

Assuming 40 hours per week - although that's not the case for most workers - and four weeks' holiday, that gives 1,920 hours: paid at £6 an hour, that's, what, nearly four times the average annual wage.

How are we to fund this?