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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by htag on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:29AM (#34327337)
> The problem isn't that people aren't being paid enough

> The problem that housing and healthcare costs are too high

Why can't these both be problems? Low skill labor could be exploited to pad corporate bottom lines and housing and healthcare costs could be unreasonably high due to governmental policy. These two things can both be true.

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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by entropicdrifter on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:10PM (#34328954)
Agreed. The majority of the American public is being screwed at both ends of the equation.
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