The New Abnormal

(What’s a good living wage if you die for a living?)

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It’s amazing how quickly life will pass you by. For example, it used to be that, to get a raise at work, you had to earn it. Now you can just demand it.

And you can demand it while you’re skipping work.

You don’t even have to work anymore to do well at work. These days, it seems, an employee can just stand in the street and yell out the wage they will accept.

Times change, I guess. Ever since the dawn of commerce (460 AD — it wa...