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You can live for very little if you're careful. Of course, if you add on additional costs, the wage you need to survive increases. I always viewed "minimum wage" as the absolute minimum you need to survive. Of course it's not gonna be enough if you have more costs!

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jul 18, 2020

If you go into debt for education, you are probably sacrificing your ability to be comfortable on a minimum wage. If you have kids, you sacrifice it. If you want to live alone and not with roommates in some areas, you sacrifice it. This seems sensible to me.

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jul 18, 2020

A minimum wage shouldn't be "the minimum for you to be comfortable even if you make choices that increase how much you need to spend"

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Should jobs that require more than minimum spending (education, dress code, etc.) then be required to pay more than minimum wage?

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I mean tbf I think there shouldn't be any minimum wage requirements whatsoever.

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That's some serious galaxy brained stuff

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is it tho? Economists tend to be more against minimum wage than the public iirc cei.org/blog/what-do-e.

cei.org

What Do Economists Think about the Minimum Wage? - Competitive Enterprise Institute

The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that if you laid all the world’s economists end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. President Truman allegedly once asked for a one-handed econom...

7:57 PM · Jul 19, 2020

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This is simply propaganda. I'm an economist. As an economist, I can tell you that economists don't have any sort of special knowledge about how the world works in re the minimum wage that makes their opinions more valid than anyone else's.