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'Fact: there's not a pub in the land suitable for your whingeing child'
I love kids, but there are some special places where they just shouldn't be seen, nor heard, writes Sophie Donaldson It's a crisp Sunday afternoon in November. The last of the autumn leaves are like dying embers against an icy blue sky. After a bracing walk by the river you decide to make a pit-stop in one of your favourite pubs. It's a warm pub, and just that; they don't do bar snacks, or cocktails, or karaoke. It's lined with dark wood and feels like you are stepping into a cosy, low-lit womb. There are two televisions but the volume is turned way down low. Apart from the televisions, the only other gentle hubbub is from the patrons who, if they are speaking at all, do so in murmurs. The rest sit - with their Sunday Independents, naturally - enjoying a quiet pint. It is perhaps how you intend on spending this very Sunday, and is how I spent mine last week. After taking an ease on two tall stools, we too sat sipping our drinks, using our 'inside' voices and generally enjoying the perfect Full Stop to the weekend. Then, halfway through our drinks, an unruly screech ripped through the pub. It was, to the surprise of nobody, the underage patron who had come through the door a few minutes earlier - in a pram. I have nothing against young children. I think. Mostly that they are very cute. I love to see them in their natural habitat - running around parks chasing pigeons, squawking in wonder at a petting zoo, or dozing on the shoulder of a doting parent. But they are not so great in pubs, because pubs are not suited to their needs. Of course it's not their fault. Small children don't have a favourite watering hole - unless it's the free refills at their local Burger King. Their parents, on the other hand, certainly do. One of the truisms about parenthood is that you will sacrifice nearly everything for your children - and that goes for your quiet nights at the pub. Except, for a lot of parents, it doesn't. They may have a baby, but no matter! Prams are mobile. They are still young people and have the right to socialise in a public house just as much as the rest of us. In this case, dad sat po-faced defiantly, or obliviously, sipping his pint, as baby continued to wail despite his wife's best attempts to shush him. The child was clearly bored and uncomfortable, given he was propped up on a high booth against a hard table edge with nowhere to crawl or squirm, as is the want of babies. But it is not the physical circumstances that made their sudden appearance in our Sunday sanctuary so jolting, but the social ones. We childless folk do not take to loitering in playgrounds, cider in hand, intent on also enjoying the swings. We do not attend those play centres with the bouncy ball-filled pits, half a bottle of wine deep, ready to enjoy ourselves like every other paying customer. We understand that just because we can doesn't mean we should, and not just because of the worried looks and raised eyebrows we'd incur. It's just common decency to acknowledge that your enjoyment does not supersede that of the people around you, or that because you have made a lifestyle choice that inhibits you from enjoying certain activities, you are not entitled to inflict the result of your decision-making upon the rest of us. It's not that children shouldn't be outlawed from all pubs. There are plenty of spots where mum and dad can enjoy a drink while bribing their bundle with chicken goujons. If it has a kids menu and changing tables in the bathrooms, it's fair to assume it's a child-friendly place. If it's mostly made up of hard, shiny surfaces and you can hear a clock ticking and the median age of its customers is 64, it's best to move on. Perhaps that's what irked me so much about last Sunday's scene. It wasn't that there was a child in a pub, but that it was in that particular pub they had chosen. Had we decided on an establishment with a row of high-chairs stacked against one wall we'd hardly have the grounds to complain - or in our case, collect our belongings and move into the second bar under the pretence that our seats by the door had suddenly become draughty. We weren't the only ones who suddenly caught the fictional chill - a few minutes later a couple in their 40s followed suit. Perhaps they had come to this very place to escape the chaos of their own domestic arrangement, or perhaps not. Either way, it was so obviously a place for adults, a place of solitude, solace and measured imbibing - not a place for children. Among parents and the childless alike, this is likely to be an unpopular opinion. There's nothing worse than a non-parent with the gall to suggest how to raise youngsters, nor anything more cruel than denying hardworking families the opportunity to let their hair down. Even worse is a person who appears to dislike children. I am bracing myself for the proverbial flinging of dirty nappies my way, but even if my indulgences are put to one side, the fact remains, there's not any sort of pub that's suitable for children. I think most parents would agree that the pub environment is not conducive to child-rearing; but when you have spent two days emitting nonsensical sounds rather than whole words, when there's still dried gunk on your lapel and Peppa Pig's theme song trills on loop in your head, it's understandable that a pint is perhaps far easier to swallow than the truth. |
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Sorry, AOC Is Right
Washington Post blogger Glenn Kessler has had his ego wounded over the past few months because his style of amateurish fact?checking has been mocked by a number of public figures, most prominently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Because Kessler?s blog is mostly a place for him to work out his personal beefs, he has decided to frequently accuse AOC of lying when she isn?t. The most recent example of this behavior was yesterday when Kessler awarded the congresswoman three Pinocchios on his inscrutable truth scale for making the following remark: I think it?s wrong that (1) a vast majority of the country doesn?t make a living wage, I think it?s wrong that (2) you can work one hundred hours and not feed your kids. I think it?s wrong that (3) corporations like Walmart and Amazon can get paid by the government, essentially experience a wealth transfer from the public, for (4) paying people less than a minimum wage. Kessler concedes that (2) is accurate. But he says the other three claims are inaccurate. But they really aren?t. The Majority of the Country Doesn?t Make a Living Wage To determine whether this is true, you need to first define a living wage, and then second determine how many people receive less than it. Kessler decides to use the MIT Living Wage calculator and a two-adult, two-child family to define a living wage: The MIT Living Wage calculator, run by Amy Glasmeier, a professor of economic geography and regional planning, says the living wage in the United States was $16.07 per hour in 2017, before taxes, for a family of four (two working adults, two children). That means both adults together would need to make at least $32.14 before taxes to cover basic necessities. From this paragraph, he concludes that the living wage is $16.07 per hour. But the actual living wage here is clearly $32.14, i.e. the hourly wage a full-time worker would need to make in order to comfortably sustain a family of four. Glenn decides to divide that in half because he wants to say two adults might be working full time. But why would you do that anymore than you would divide it by 2.5 on the assumption that one of the kids also has a part-time job? You can combine multiple below-living-wage jobs in order to get a total family income above a particular income threshold, but each particular job still pays less than a living wage as it is ordinarily understood. Once you have defined the living wage amount, you need to determine whether the majority of workers receive less than it. Kessler cites Brookings? Ryan Nunn, whose analysis of the Current Population Survey says that 32.3 percent of full-time workers receive an hourly wage below $16.07. But that same calculation from Nunn shows that at least 80 million of around 115 million full-time workers (70 percent) receive an hourly wage below $32.14, which again is the living wage necessary for a full-time worker to support a family of four. Kessler?s mistakes go beyond using $16.07 instead of $32.14, though. He also errs in deciding that someone receives a living wage provided they make $16.07 per hour without any regard for how many hours they work. Someone who receives $16.07 per hour or even $32.14 per hour does not make a living wage if they only work ten hours a week. And of course getting enough hours is a struggle for some people, with the rise of just-in-time scheduling practices by employers. It would be reasonable to argue that it is not necessary for each individual worker to make enough to support a family of four on their wages alone. After all, a social-democratic society would kick in a lot of stuff like free health care, free child care, and a child allowance that would make individuals much less dependent on wage income to make ends meet. But insofar as we are trying to determine whether most workers make a living wage so defined, they clearly do not, and AOC is thus clearly correct. Less Than the Minimum Wage Kessler says that Amazon and Walmart do not pay less than the minimum wage. Kessler?s argument here is initially just clear pedantry, deciding that ?the minimum wage? refers to the statutory minimum wage, rather than ?the living wage,? even though that?s what is being talked about throughout the rest of the statement. But what?s funny here is that Kessler is even arguably wrong to say Amazon pays the statutory minimum wage. The company no doubt pays its statutory employees an amount above the state and federal minimums. But Amazon has a lot of people who work for it in varying ways that are independent contractors, and some of them do not make the minimum wage. Most prominently, Amazon?s Mechanical Turk workers do not make the minimum wage. But also some of Amazon?s last-mile delivery drivers work as independent contractors for third-party firms that do not always pay the minimum wage. Amazon logistics contractor XPO seems to get sued for this behavior rather frequently. So AOC is even right on the most pedantic interpretation of minimum wage. Companies Benefit From Wealth Transfer Kessler takes on AOC?s other claim ? that companies like Amazon and Walmart in effect receive a wealth transfer from the means-tested benefits received by their workers ? by saying that: Even if Ocasio-Cortez were right about the minimum wage, her contention that those companies are benefiting from a wealth transfer is dubious. Economic theory generally assumes all costs and benefits of labor-related taxes and benefits are borne by labor ? i.e., the worker, not the employer. So wages would be largely unaffected if taxes went up or public assistance went up. And the worker would still get paid the same, even if they had to carry the burden of new taxes or received enhanced benefits. The problem here is that, if we are going to use economic theory to settle this debate, then it is true that benefits like Medicaid and food stamps do not benefit the employers of those that receive them. But that same economic theory says that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which is also received by low-wage workers, does benefit employers by permitting them to pay lower wages than they would without the EITC. The EITC allows low-wage employers like Amazon and Walmart to save on wages because of its phase-in structure, which differs from the structure of benefits like food stamps and Medicaid. So once again, AOC is technically correct on this narrow point. And Kessler is wrong. |
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