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Re:Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasona... by allhailkatt on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:25PM (#15965001)
Because single mothers exist, so supporting a family on one income is needed to ensure a minimal amount of suffering happens to children who didn't ask to be poor, and have no way of opting out of poverty.

Also, modest = minimal by the original standards.

Historical context: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/minimum_wage

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Re:Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasona... by ggg9990 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:07PM (#15966961)
It's much better to identify single mothers and make sure their kids are OK with welfare than make the national minimum wage enough to do so.
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Re:Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasona... by will_hughes on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:16PM (#15966997)
Better for whom?
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Re:Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasona... by ggg9990 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:05AM (#15967415)
Better for the people paying the wages and the other consumers of those people's goods and services, and for workers who are employable only at particularly low wages.
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