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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've got things going pretty nicely for me, so I don't want anything to change unless I'm not as close to the top as I currently am. Change might make me feel less wealthy, and so it scares me.

Ah got it. Totally understandable.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm not too concerned about myself - I'll be fine, at least because I can move somewhere else (although I would prefer not to have to learn a third language). I'm concerned about the working poor (my family was when I was a kid) and I don't think people so out of touch that they call a one-bedroom "modest" are well-equipped to judge what the minimum wage ought to be.

(There's no consensus that the minimum wage actually helps people, but if it does then it should be higher. The current minimum wage is effectively no minimum wage at all.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Man the perks of apathy.

I wish I was that stable and able to be so apathetic as you but nah I'm in the shit house so I just have to stay and try to make things better.

Well I hope you leave soon never look back and get to live your life without giving a shit because you are fine. Have a whatever life my non-comrade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm concerned about the working poor

and

Modest would be sharing a studio with several other people. (...) I don't think society should be targeting the "lives alone in a one-bedroom" lifestyle as the minimum when sharing a space is a reasonable and much more affordable way to live.

Aren't compatible positions, and

There's no consensus that the minimum wage actually helps people

is a laughable one - it's one of the most studied topics in economics, and when you put any effort whatsoever into controlling for biases, the evidence is unambiguous.