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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I would think a key to a productive conversation would be to reference what I said verbatim, not purposefully misrepresenting or misunderstanding without asking for clarification and going off that, no?
I said "Let's raise the minimums then." I support a living wage, we should raise minimums to a living wage. My response was serious, but I also had the gift of knowing nfotiu was lying about the living wage in Calgary being $30/hr and $100k/year in SF. If those were the living wage numbers, I would still agree. But they're not. So when I said I was serious, I was serious that minimums should be living wages. I just assumed you also knew nfotiu was making up numbers to make a point.
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Where is the lie? You claimed that a min living wage in Mississippi is $15.60 an hour. The calculator someone posted earlier showed that Calgarians have to spend about more than double in local currency vs Jackson, MS. Why wouldn't that make $30 the living wage in Calgary if you are doing apples to apples comparisons?
San Francisco rent is nearly 4 times Cincinnati's.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026
There are plenty of reports of 6 figure earners living in their cars, and you can see streets lined with people living in cars, some of them pricey late model cars, if you visit.
It seems pretty obvious if you spend time in different parts of the USA that you can live a better life in a lot of rural US areas making $10/hour than making $30/hour in a big, California city.
Can you make a case that is not true?