• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Minimum wage means minimum livable wage, and “livable” isn’t the same as “survivable”.

    Anyone working should be able to afford the amenities we call living, not just scraping by. Children, transportation, food, healthcare, reasonable recreation, savings, retirement, self development and actualization. All of it.
    People not working should be able to survive, and we should do everything we can to get them to that “living” point as well. Disability or a bad labor market shouldn’t close someone off from eating, having children or going to the doctor.