Quote Originally Posted by Zacha341 View Post
...the radical left has accelerated change quite fast in just these last three years!
What's so "radical left" about a living wage?

Even the philosopher of capitalism argued for it:

"Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged." —  Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, I .viii.36

P.S. Unfortunately after Engels, Marx and Lenin, every decent and humane idea could and would be conveniently dismissed as subversive.