We aren't all getting paid that much. Some of us get nothing at all except for student loans. The people replying to that thread are the US grad students with stipends, etc. People with no or little funding are prolly not going to reply to it (I'm certainly not).
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Comparing apples to apples (those who get stipends to those who get stipends) they are coming out WAAAAY ahead

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You have universal healthcare. I pay for insurance that, in my point of view, is like a war tax paid to the mob.
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No arguments about that interpretation here
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Hurray for low pay and high expenses. (From Vancouver, which should be similar to Toronto)
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I feel your pain sister
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I’m originally a vancouverite, and once I figured out how much better pay is for academic STEM work in the US, I never once considered Canada for grad school. For all the bad rap America gets about its attitude to science, they pay *relatively* well
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important to consider stagnant wages and cost of living increase plus debt from undergrad ... most grads I know are living paycheck to paycheck, many in their cars. We make 20k or less & are now on a strike for a
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also most in the humanities (and many STEM) are not on stipend. We are grad TAs meaning we teach up to 50 students a quarter on top of researching & dissertation work.
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