What do you think minimum wage should be? (discuss.online)

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$15? $25? $0 because the children yearn for the mines?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Again, by spending less than the median housing cost, ideally by spending no more than a third of the median housing cost.

Eg. The median rent in Chicago is about $2K\mo right now. But you can live an more economically depressed part of town and get a one-bedroom for $1.1K or a three bedroom for that same $2K and split that with two roommates.

I'm not OP and her proposal isn't perfect, but this particular critique just doesn't hold water when she specified the median housing cost.

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