• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    Yeah it did, but back in those days, student loans were federally regulated, the minimum wage was set to an appropriate number, it was possible to buy a house while only working one job.

    • 🏴 hamid abbasi [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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      10 days ago

      Uh, no? The first state to actually ban smoking was in 2002, minimum wage was already too low to get by and literally not a single person I know was able to buy a house on a single income. I graduated college then and it was a massive recession still happening from the dot com crash. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickle and Dimed about how it is impossible to get by on a minimum wage in 2001 and was already calling for a 15 dollar minimum wage. The US made no progress.