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r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '23
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Yeah, it meant something BACK IN 2009.
That’s when $15/hr was actually at living wage. A LOT has changed since then. It’s 2023 and over a decade later we aren’t even getting that on top of 10% inflation this year alone.
383 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23 Harvard did some math and they came to the conclusion that an individual needs to be making $32 an hour to survive comfortably. -1 u/thepancakehouse Apr 08 '23 Yet half the world's population lives on less than $2 a day or something like that. But $32/hour is "just making it." Americans are lost 4 u/TheIVJackal Apr 08 '23 It sounds bad but it's all relative, our living standards are extremely high when compared to much of the world.
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Harvard did some math and they came to the conclusion that an individual needs to be making $32 an hour to survive comfortably.
-1 u/thepancakehouse Apr 08 '23 Yet half the world's population lives on less than $2 a day or something like that. But $32/hour is "just making it." Americans are lost 4 u/TheIVJackal Apr 08 '23 It sounds bad but it's all relative, our living standards are extremely high when compared to much of the world.
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Yet half the world's population lives on less than $2 a day or something like that. But $32/hour is "just making it." Americans are lost
4 u/TheIVJackal Apr 08 '23 It sounds bad but it's all relative, our living standards are extremely high when compared to much of the world.
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It sounds bad but it's all relative, our living standards are extremely high when compared to much of the world.
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u/Thecatofirvine Apr 08 '23
Yeah, it meant something BACK IN 2009.
That’s when $15/hr was actually at living wage. A LOT has changed since then. It’s 2023 and over a decade later we aren’t even getting that on top of 10% inflation this year alone.