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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by apexalpha on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:56AM (#21720416)
Dutch here, too. While everyone below a certain income gets benefits like healthcare subsidy you can still live okay on a McDonalds salary. If you make €10 an hour you get €1600 a month. And at that level you pay almost no income tax. While not a lot, you don't necessarily need the foodbank or other subsidies than the regular ones to make ends meet.
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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by Balgair on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:49AM (#21722191)
The parallels to the Roman Grain Dole[0] cannot be missed. The Cura Annonae warped Rome from top to bottom, from calories, to shipping, to politics, to military; nearly every aspect of Rome was touched by it. Heck, it likely outlasted Rome herself.

Those subsidies, like the current ones, run deep.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae#Politics_and_the_...

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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by eptcyka on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:36AM (#21720603)
Just 5 years ago, I would've considered 1600 Euros or the pound equivalent a month to be plenty of money. At the time, I was a student living in the UK. Some years earlier still, whilst back in my native baltic state, that kind of a monthly income would seem super comfortable.
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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by ido on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:05AM (#21721423)
The biggest difference is that housing is a lot more expensive in western cities - it is likely that even a modest 2-room (1-bedroom) apartment in a major city like Amsterdam would cost the majority of that wage to rent (and we're not talking about just students, but older people who can't get better jobs).
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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by tripzilch on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:42AM (#21729360)
You say it like you just grabbed a random example, but Amsterdam is one of the most expensive places to rent in NL. It's also generally not at all representative for the Netherlands as a whole.
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Re:A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier by ido on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:20AM (#21735986)
Ok, you may replace it with London, Paris, Zürich, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm and probably a dozen other western european cities (not to mention major American cities, which are sometimes even more extreme).
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