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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The prevailing minimum wage at a job I started a few years ago was well under that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yup. And that's not even accounting for disproportionate inflation in the necessity basket. Just market inflation.

I guess the cost of food being so insanely inflated shows up in this comparison, but housing and loan/consumer credit isn't