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70-year-old Grab rider proves age is just a number (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)

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A "motivational" story about a 70 years old working 12 hours per day to earn rm100(equivalent to Usd20.87 today) to support his wife and two unemployed son.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It being just a number is a problem. Minimum wage should be a function: its output depends on inflation that we've introduced to the economy since minimum wage. (And IMHO, in part because of it)

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