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living wage in action

You can pay a living wage and not only survive, but thrive.

So many deemed Dan Price a demagogue. Others called him a visionary. He is asking the right questions. The fundamental assumption is that work is a necessary component of human life. The fundamental question: how should work be valued?

Dan Price made a decision that the work is valuable because the worker is valuable. How long has it been deemed that output determines value? Our world has been driven by the idea of progress – but of what worth is progress without humanity?

If we are in the business of redeeming work, let us remember that our value comes from the Creator. In this, we should focus on how our brothers and sisters might live rather than whether they deserve it for the answer is simply: “love your neighbor as yourself.”

For Dan, it was reducing his own pay as CEO from over $1 million to $70,000. It may have seemed like a poor business decision, but it was a great Kingdom decision and it is certainly paying dividends.