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Nobody should be taking a bus for an hour to a minimum wage job. One of the reasons a job is MW is that they are everywhere. You don’t commute that far for min
by brightball 7y ago
Nobody should be taking a bus for an hour to a minimum wage job. One of the reasons a job is MW is that they are everywhere.
You don’t commute that far for minimum wage.
- totalthrowaway 7y agoIf you don't have a car, and the bus runs infrequently, I bet many people spend an hour getting somewhere. Anecdote, not data, but https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/low-pay-long-pricey-commute-often-go-hand-in-hand/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/low-pay-long-p... You could argue the person in the story should get jobs closer to home, but it is probably more common than you think.
- thaniri 7y agoAnecdotally, this is not true. Due to how many North American cities are designed with urban sprawl and separation of living areas (suburbs) and productive areas (industrial/office zoning laws) it should actually be the norm to have a lengthy commute to work. Hell, I live in a suburb with quite good public transport and it would take me almost 30 minutes to go to the grocery store by bus. When I was a teenager and had no car, it took me about an hour to get to my minimum wage job by bus due to transfers. Once I could afford a car (because I lived with mum and dad and could save) that commute got cut to 20 minutes.
- gorbachev 7y agoIf you work in one of the US tech hubs, ask your janitorial staff how long their commute is.
- t-writescode 7y agoYou're right, we probably should have said longer, maybe an hour and a half. I definitely know people that commute a long time for low wages. Or did. They're in better places, now. One of them used to stay really late at night at a Denny's because the buses didn't run when he needed to get to work, so he would spend the night (basically) at a Denny's so he was at work on time.