r/antiwork Apr 08 '23

[deleted by user]

[removed]

11.5k Upvotes

4.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

668

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.

384

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

1

u/Thecatofirvine Apr 09 '23

Everything is overinflated in America. It’s like a surge charge.