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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$15/hour minimum wage in California. $31,200/year before taxes if working 40 hours a week. I haven't seen anything I could feasibly get hired for that pays more than $18/hour ($37,440/year).

I seriously have zero motivation to work 40 hours a week and still be fucking homeless.

[-] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago

I'm a disabled veteran in California. I hear you. The government chooses my quality of life and they have chosen poverty.

"Thank you for your service!"

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If there's one thing I've learned from the pandemic is Americans calls ppl heros when they don't want to actually pay them. See teachers, retail workers, nurses, doctors, EMTs, soldiers, first responders, mail carriers, delivery drivers, I can keep going

[-] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

100%. Hero = victim.

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