mmmbetternot

a living wage is the minimum a person needs to survive without severe and persistent food and housing insecurity.

It's the amount one would spend on groceries, rent, utilities, transportation, childcare, and sometimes healthcare.

It does not include luxuries such as meals at restaurants, entertainment, savings accounts, retirement funds, investments, or vacations.

MIT has a great living wage calculator for the US. Their definition of living wage is in the about section.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/

I wouldn't bring up chemicals in the brain, because that is a nonsense marketing term.

https://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth/ http://www.brown.uk.com/diagnosis/france.pdf

You can't claim that sleeping, eating, and exercising are "fixing" chemicals in the bain any more than people can claim chemical imbalance causes mental illness. There is no baseline for what normal chemical levels are.

Most mentally healthy people can't force themselves to meet their exercise goals. Many mentally healthy people fail to meet their nutrition goals too.