This guy's story doesn't track, for so many reasons, but I'm gonna stick to the basics 1.) median wage in America for ALL workers is around $28k a year -- mean

This guy's story doesn't track, for so many reasons, but I'm gonna stick to the basics 1.) median wage in America for ALL workers is around $28k a year -- meaning this guy was, supposedly on his "minimum wage" job, earning more than fully half of all Americans. Think about that. He was in the upper half of the income distribution, on "minimum wage" ? really? (A typical minimum wage job pays $10k a year BEFORE taxes -- 28 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, $7.25 an hour. It is extremely rare for low wage employers to allow an employee to work more than 29 hours a week, as it may oblige them to offer benefits at the 30 hour mark, and extra pay at the 40 hour mark.) 2. There is not a single state in the union where median rents are as low as he describes -- did he just rent the very cheapest room in the entire 50 states? https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/research/median-rental-rates-for-an-apartment-by-state/ https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/research/median-... Americans love telling each other stories about how they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, but they also love to omit the details of how they got things like 45 hours a week, or made more than 50% of American workers, despite working for a "minimum wage," or got paid time and a half on his "minimum wage" job, or found housing near a job center at below the median cost for even the most rural and blighted parts of the country. All of these, individually, are staggeringly unlikely. Together, they come off as the luckiest man alive. It seems impossible unless he was working in his uncle's bakery and living in his brother's apartment. (The refreshing thing about this comic is that the author didn't blow smoke up our asses about "bootstraps," it's very plain he felt lucky to escape his situation.)