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- Why or how would the minimum wage be compared to the average wage of another country? It's the minimum.

- Agreed on the single earner families on minimum wage guaranteed to be in poverty. But, pointing somewhere else and saying "It's better there!" seems off to me. Pick a specific policy and advocate for it. Higher minimum wage? Guaranteed housing? Universal basic income?

>>welike+(OP)
Sorry, my comment started as a reply to the comment about “better than most countries” [1] (hence the comparison).

I explicitly didn’t want to make this comment about advocating for a policy, but first to make sure we’re all on the same page: the US minimum wage isn’t enough to get by on. I should have added that a huge portion of the labor force is at or near this rate, except again I’m on my phone, so I couldn’t back that with the precise number.

Since you asked, I’m one of the Basic Income folks :).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17966080

>>boulos+L2
> the US minimum wage isn’t enough to get by on

Depends on where in the US you live.