It is rhetoric because “living wage” in the US is far beyond what’s needed to keep people alive. People who don’t get paid a “living wage” do not drop dead in the streets from malnutrition and exhaustion.
Can we drop the pointless definitional agreement and just find a study specifying what wage-level is necessary to keep people from dropping very preventably dead or being arrested for vagrancy?
I am not particularly interested in a study. At one point in my life I was poor. Very very poor. I have quite a good idea of how much money do you need to survive in a US city. Hint: it’s far below what is usually called “a living wage”.
It is rhetoric because “living wage” in the US is far beyond what’s needed to keep people alive. People who don’t get paid a “living wage” do not drop dead in the streets from malnutrition and exhaustion.
Can we drop the pointless definitional agreement and just find a study specifying what wage-level is necessary to keep people from dropping very preventably dead or being arrested for vagrancy?
I am not particularly interested in a study. At one point in my life I was poor. Very very poor. I have quite a good idea of how much money do you need to survive in a US city. Hint: it’s far below what is usually called “a living wage”.