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To be fair, if you wanted the standard of living of the 1930s you can achieve that with 20 hours/week of minimum wage. Average income was around $8-9k at that t
by zeroonetwothree 7y ago
To be fair, if you wanted the standard of living of the 1930s you can achieve that with 20 hours/week of minimum wage. Average income was around $8-9k at that time.
- api 7y agoTrue if you add that you won't likely be able to live in certain cities or expensive towns. But that leaves most of the country. There are some really beautiful places you can live that are not expensive. Check out the Appalachians if you like to live in a misty postcard, and the stereotypes are largely false. Your neighbors are more likely to be artists or organic farmers than the characters from Deliverance. (I used to live in Asheville which is moderately expensive but you don't have to go far from town and it gets cheap.)
- jotm 7y agoIf you work remotely and/or live in some small village. Otherwise, that's not enough to pay electricity, rent, food and transportation. Minimum wage is far behind the costs of even basic living (in most of the developed world, anyway).