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Hey, I don't know if this is how you want to hear this, but 20k/yr is far below the poverty line in the United States. I don't know if you are self employed/entrepreneurial but that comes out to just above $10/hr, ~~which is below even the federal minimum wage requirements.~~
Federal minimum wage in USA is $7.25 USD. It's even shittier than you were told.
Hmm, I thought the Biden administration had successfully pushed it up to some pittance like $11 or something. Or at least that was my recollection. Consider me corrected.
I'm aware. The thing is, the next lowest lifestyle bracket in 5e is "Poor," which is described as
I don't have to contend with violence or crime, and the only reason I have to contend with disease is because I live in the US. Like, even people living a Comfortable lifestyle live in fear of our "healthcare" system.
By modern first world country standards, I'm definitely poor. By medieval fantasy standards, I'm doing pretty good
It isn't, it's a little bit more:
What's the income required to share a studio apartment with six people, never have healthcare, and subsist on a diet of simple grains? That's the modern equivalent of a Medieval peasant lifestyle. Remember, in this era, it was common for entire large families to share a single bed.