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>>mef+(OP)
I find myself a little sad at how lucrative a job this will appear for an entire generation. $1500 average creator pay is higher than 40 hours a week minimum wage.

>>kyleho+dab
Who do you know that's making $9/hour avg today? That's what I was earning at a student job back in 2010.

>>evantb+qfb
16 states still have minimum wage at $7.25/hour https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage... and I presume there still exist employers who don’t offer much more.

>>kyleho+5hb
Federal minimum wage is largely an irrelevant number. <1% of hourly workers in the country are making minimum wage. And most of those are making below minimum wage (under the table), so their wage would remain low even if the government raised the number.

>>paxys+0Zb
It seems to be 1.3% of all hourly workers:

https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-...

However, that figure doesn't include the people who make a dime over minimum wage. 23.3% of American households earn less than $35,000/yr

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...

This number would decrease dramatically if our national minimum wage was raised to $15 or more per hour.

>>Bizarr+Suc
Why should there be a national minimum wage? Cost of living varies so much, it is impossible to derive a figure that is reasonable for the highest cost of living areas and the lowest cost of living areas.

>>Increa+xyc
Because there are a number of states that have repeatedly demonstrated that they can't be trusted to make basic, life-improving changes for themselves. Then respectable places like California end up footing the bill when they shake the proverbial can.

A fair number of these states had to be held at gunpoint to eliminate slavery.