This is a very interesting discussion, one way to think about the issue is: "what should be the minimum wage" and "who defines it".
If you set a minimum wage too high, you are taking jobs from lot of people, and if its too low you risk people getting paid less.
Whatever number you come up with is going to be arbitrary. A country wide minimum wage is stupid because the cost of living in New York is very different from Lousiana, a state wide makes more sense, but even so, it varies greatly from city to city within the same sate, so a city wide makes even more sense, if you keep adding granularity you'll reach the individual level, because the cost of living within cities changes fast, and there's a plethora of other factors to consider.
I have worked for really low wages in the past, even the lowest of unskilled worker still provides a value. Senior programmers on NYC are worth at least $60/h, now, how much a really low skilled worker is worth? At the time I was an unskilled worker it was was around $10, and thats how much I got paid despite the minimum wage being $8, anyone could get a job for $10, so thats the value a worker with essentially no skills was able to provide.
The $8 minimum wage didn't make a difference on wages, because unskilled workers were already providing more value than the minimum wage, so policy makers were behind in raising it, which they did.
Raising the minimum wage and matching it to the market price at $10 wouldn't make any difference either, however, raising it to $15 would wreak havoc, you are basically saying that any worker whose job isn't worth at least 15$ should not be working.
A Minimum wage value written on a piece of paper can't magically increase the true value of a worker, wages won't drop to $1 if you set it as $1, and also won't raise to $50 if you set it to $50.
I had the same experience so many times and I was so frustrated that I decided to buy a lens kit and learn to take the measurements myself, it's not rocket science.
And let me tell you, its the BEST $200 I ever spent.
I have high astigmatism -4.00 and it feels so good being able to get my prescriptions very precisely and having a good vision again.
I have thought about doing that, but thought it would be much more expensive. Where did you buy it?
I have been to multiple optometrists, but it always goes like, the eye measuring machine says my glasses should be one diopter stronger, but my eye sight was still good enough that I do not need a new prescription..
I looked into it and found some for $200. But they had testing glasses (where you insert the lens) with a fixed eye distance (PD). If that is the wrong PD, it is bad
And half the lenses there are plus lenses. I only need minus lenses.
But it seems one can buy testing glasses and individual lenses rather than a set.
I learned this the hard way. No luggage, airlines blame heathrow, and heathrow has no communcation channel, I think my only option is break in and try to find it myself. How you manage to get yours?
Yeah we just recovered a lost bag thanks to an Airtag. The airline’s system thought it was still at the origin city, but we knew exactly which terminal it was at, and we just went there and asked in person. Never checking any bag without an airtag ever again.
Like I dummy, I waited around in line for an hour in Costa Rica before remembering to check my tag.
... Turns out, they move "military looking" (lol, pelican) boxes to a separate spot instead of running them on the carousel. I'd have had it in minutes if I remembered to check the tag first.
Another Pelican Box Luggage Fan!!! I've got a few Pelican trunks too (1615s). They are often (but not always) treated as "Out of Gauge" at various international airports for me and I'm asked "What's inside?" as if they are loaded with some sort of weapon. Nope! I just like large & durable luggage that can be tied to roof of a cab if it doesn't fit in the back
I don't often check luggage. United does have a pretty good online tracking system you can use these days but I always throw an AirTag into checked luggage now and it seems like a really good idea.
Yeah and if you want some order them now, there's been a flood of articles (and comments!) recommending this approach, so no doubt they are flying off the metaphorical shelves.
I hit up 2 Apple Stores and a few authorized resellers in my area and everyone was out of stock. I ordered mine online and it still took a few weeks to get it.
I've used airtags when travelling the past month, they are amazing. Sometimes I sit down on a nice chair instead of crowding around the baggage reclaim belt waiting for it to arrive, and my airtag will show when its there
It can help a ton. There's been reports of people calling up an airport and telling an employee exactly where their bag is, and then getting it delivered.
Often the biggest impediment to getting lost luggage back is finding out where in the airport it actually is.
What should those of us with Android phones do? As far as I can tell, you can use an Android phone to locate any random airtag nearby, but no way to hunt down your own tag unless nearby. Other tag systems won't have the Find My network advantage.
If you have a Samsung phone you could consider using a Galaxy SmartTag. It uses a network of Samsung devices, so its coverage should be quite good too.
A guy was on Irish radio and he said he bought the cheapest outbound ticket he could find. Managed to get to the arrivals lounge and find his bag there.
The slightly cheaper tactic may be to actually to buy a fully refundable fare (usually for thousands) for much later in the day, and then cancel it and ask for a full refund.
Fully refundable tickets are awesome. My old company had a contract where all international business travels to customer sites must purchase fully refundable business class tickets. I remember someone had to cancel their travel just before boarding, and the airline refunded everything no questions asked.
