Why is it the employer's responsibility to provide a living wage?

[The Valkyrie]

As an aside from this conversation, some people have a ridiculous concept of what a living wage is. You aren't in poverty if you own a car.

Agreed.

But some people work sixty or more hours, or multiple jobs, just to pay the bills.

I know what will be said by a *certain* member, "Then they should move somewhere they can afford, and stop using electricity and eating!" - being facetious in the last, obviously.