Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere

Re:Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment ... by notacoward on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:56PM (#20226751)

> I'm aware not everyone is like me.

You are now. Didn't seem to be previously.

> you should delete your own to avoid hypocrisy.

I wasn't the one over-generalizing from personal experience. I didn't say "it's no big deal" as though that would be true for everyone. There's no hypocrisy, so spare us all the whataboutism.

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Re:Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment ... by sdinsn on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:09PM (#20226854)

I was plenty aware before. I was sharing my personal experiences. Someone who is a 37year old retail worker is free to share theirs as well. It appears like you are a bad actor and will dismiss anything that violates your 'reality'.

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Re:Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment ... by notacoward on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:19PM (#20226936)

So interpreting your over-general statement exactly as written makes someone a bad actor? If you want to share personal experience, identify it as such ("for me") instead of expressing it as a general rule. If you want to provide a counterexample to an overly general statement, use words like "might" (as I did) to indicate that. Don't gaslight readers about what you originally said, and don't attribute evil motives to anyone who points it out. Those Reddit-level tricks will only convince anyone reading the exchange that you're the one arguing in bad faith.

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