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>I agree that would be nice, it's just not possible in a free market. Is there any country where everyone lives comfortably working full time at any job? Yes.

>I agree that would be nice, it's just not possible in a free market. Is there any country where everyone lives comfortably working full time at any job? Yes. In my country (NL) the minimum wage, combined with a progressive tax system makes that everyone can live off one job, have health care for their family and education for their kids. It's not luxery on minimum wage, but it works.

kuzimoto 7y ago
>Is there any country where everyone lives comfortably working full time at any job? I was probably a bit hasty in asking this question, it's a bit silly. That being said, I don't know if you can compare NL and US as it's population is 10x lower and as you mentioned has much higher taxes and government programs. Also, for some reason I can't find recent poverty statistics for NL later than 2015, and I saw stats going from 11.6% to 14% which puts it fairly close to US 12.3%. I would expect given the massive social programs and minimum wage for this to be lower.