Because it’s possible to live extremely comfortably on the minimum wage here as long as you don’t have dependents. This creates a disincentive towards going out and getting a higher paying job that requires far more actual work. eg. Last year I was covering my costs of living in Sydney by working three days a week at minimum wage and was still able to go out to nice restaurants and so forth fairly regularly.
Because it’s possible to live extremely comfortably on the minimum wage here as long as you don’t have dependents. This creates a disincentive towards going out and getting a higher paying job that requires far more actual work. eg. Last year I was covering my costs of living in Sydney by working three days a week at minimum wage and was still able to go out to nice restaurants and so forth fairly regularly.
Ah, okay. My mistake—I thought shokwave’s “here” referred to LessWrong as a whole, not Australia.