> a minimum wage needs to be able to at least rent their own flat Why exclude the possibility of having roommates? I and I'm sure many others here had at one p

> a minimum wage needs to be able to at least rent their own flat Why exclude the possibility of having roommates? I and I'm sure many others here had at one point or another a minimum wage and roommates and perfectly acceptable livable existence. The idea that you need to have your own place all to yourself on a livable wage is laughable and so out of touch of how much of most people in the world have lived at one point in their life. Not even a majority of Americans in any age cohort live alone. 60 years ago it wasn't even 1 in 5. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/percentage-of-americans-living-alone-by-age https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/percentage-of-americans-l... > In 63 of the 113 nations (56 percent), fewer than 5 percent of the young adults, ages 25-29, live alone. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202002/living-alone-men-and-women-young-old-around-the-world https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202002... Living alone is a luxury. Any attempts to paint living alone as a necessity for a livable condition when most of the world experiences a livable condition without it is so out of touch with reality that it's impossible to take someone making this argument seriously.