08 August 2017

Nice work if you can get it

I found this in a 2012 Atlantic article about our "price-tag society":
Stand in line overnight on Capitol Hill to hold a place for a lobbyist who wants to attend a congressional hearing: $15–$20 an hour. Lobbyists pay line-standing companies, who hire homeless people and others to queue up.
The cynic in me thinks that the lobbyists pay the line-standing companies $15-20 an hour, but the line-standing companies hire the homeless at $2 an hour plus a free meal.

1 comment:

  1. Supposedly there have been price wars in the past but customers pay anywhere from $20-50 an hour and the standers make $10-15 an hour.

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