Why we need a mandatory living wage:

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Not having one kills people.

There should never be a need for a person to hold down four jobs to make ends meet. That we, as a society, not only allow it, but hold it up as a virtue, is a testament to how deep this country is in the pockets of the vastly over-privileged.

There isn't a need for a person to hold down four jobs to make ends meet. That's a myth. The poor in the United States are so well off compared to much of the world.

I know the typical response is that we should strive to be better than so and so shithole country etc and that somehow it's an unfair comparison.

Well it's not really an unfair comparison, since your average person in the world lives in the third world. The poor here still drive cars largely, live a single family in an apartment, have video games. It's ridiculous. We've eliminated starvation in this country to the point that our poorest citizens are actually more likely to be overweight. Meanwhile the lifestyle of everyone in this country hurts the environment and people in other countries but we maintain that somehow the 'poor' and the middle class in this country need more. Maybe instead of trying to plunder money from the rich we should all focus on being happy and learning to live with less. Eventually everyone will have to anyway.