It appears The Freedom Socialist Party has never heard of the old adage, “Practice what you preach.”
The Seattle-based group posted a job offering online for a web content manager with a salary of $13 an hour. This wouldn’t be notable, except for the fact that the group proclaims on its website that a $20 an hour minimum wage should be the standard and that a $15 an hour minimum wage is the lowest “living wage.” The group was especially active during Seattle’s move to a $15 minimum wage earlier this year.
But it’s not a belief they ascribe to in practice.
Reason notes that the average annual salary of a web developer in the U.S. is around $62,500. But even if this position was full-time, they would only earn about $26,000 a year. The position is also not a union job, another value the party loves to espouse.
In a recent post on the group’s website, socialism.com, they wrote, “Enforcing minimum wage laws may be more exhausting than enacting them. As usual, holding employers to any laws favorable to working people may be the toughest task of all.”
The toughest task, indeed. Especially when the group leading the charge for wage hikes doesn’t even feel the need to put them into practice for its employees.
