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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
Not only is it basically impossible to do a national minimum wage fairly, it is completely antithetical to our system of government. We are a federation of states, not a centralized national government that runs everything else. I wish people would stop trying to make the US something it isn't and was never meant to be.

>>bigstr+kMc
The states have a lot of leeway in how they run things, the federal government is there to make sure the system stays in some sort of accord.

They do this by offering emergency relief funds for natural disasters, interstate highways for trade and economy, and all manner of things.

I think a federal minimum wage makes sense in this system, ensuring that the people of Tishomingo, Mississippi have the same fundamental buying power as the people to Los Angeles, California instead of them earning $1 an hour because it's comparatively cheaper to live in Tishomingo.

Raising the federal minimum wage is also a good way to decrease old debt, deflate the value of stagnant money (increasing the likelihood that the money moves, improving the economy) and to temporarily boost the financial status of the poorest and most disaffected.

In an age where no one working minimum wage can afford the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment without an extraordinary stroke of luck or some sort of financial dispensation, someone needs to do something and it needs to come from on high.