• tallwookie@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          if you make $8/hr, you dont live somewhere that has $1500/mo rent - you get roommates or you move.

          • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            There is a book you should read called Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a journalist account of trying to live for I think 3 months on minimum wage in the US. It’s a light quick read and you might appreciate the perspective.

            Equally importantly it is from 2001 and $5.15 then is equivalent to $9 today, almost 25% higher than the current federal minimum wage