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Playing Devil’s Advocate here, but minimum wage earners are being subsidized by local, state, and federal governments. They usually don’t have to pay full pric
by lockhouse 4y ago
Playing Devil’s Advocate here, but minimum wage earners are being subsidized by local, state, and federal governments. They usually don’t have to pay full price for groceries, rent, healthcare, or education. The bottom of the middle class are the ones suffering the most right now as they make just enough to not qualify for these subsidies, but not enough to comfortably absorb recent increases to their cost of living.
- fallingfrog 4y agoThis is partly true, but I think that it’s hard to know who has it worse without looking at the lived experiences of people from both groups. I suspect you’re basing your ideas about the welfare state off how things were 30 years ago. Benefits have been cut everywhere.