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Originally Posted by stone hands
It means that you put in your 40 hours at x job and receive enough compensation to pay the average cost of living where you reside
In a practical sense, whatever prevents the current paradigm of lower class people being required to have multiple jobs and rely on government assistance to afford the above - however that ends up looking
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In a practical sense, it would mean mandating that the minimum always matches the average, which in turn would keep pushing up the average. So, yes, it truly is nothing but a political platitude.