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> You just can't afford a new iPhone.

Or a home. Or a car. Or healthcare. The idea that minimum-wage life in America is in any way up to developed-world standards is horribly, laughably, tragically wrong.

Not saying that minimum wage is the answer. Personally, I support abolishing it in favor of a Universal basic Income. But suggesting that the problem it is trying to address isn't even real is... just not correct.

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Yes, it does afford you healthcare the way US works right now, if it doesn't, that's a failing of Obamacare. Also, you want to be able to afford a car and a home by working at McDonald's? What are you talking about? And your solution is to not even have people work, just be given money. That's borderline insane. What cozy life do you have to be living to think that you're entitled to these things.

You support, and vote for, universal healthcare and advanced and subsidized public transportation systems, right?

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