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Then we’d have to call it “some leg room wage”

It’s the minimum wage, it’s supposed to be the minimum you need to survive. Conversely, you don’t need two bedrooms to survive

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No, we call it the “minimum wage” because it’s the minimum to be legally paid

It’s meant to be a living wage, and in case that’s not clear enough for you

and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

quoted from FDR, the guy who got the initial minimum wage laws passed in the US

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It’s not called the minimum-to-live wage, it’s the minimum wage. The lowest wage that can be owned. Why don’t you explain why you want some people to barely be able to survive?

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