What sort of meal do you suppose a person gets at a sit down restaurant for less than $10?
How is a young married couple supposed to establish some wealth and make their way in life on $20K/year each?
Every day HN amazes me at how completely out of touch some people are. "I make six figures typing on a screen in an air conditioned room all day. Why can't these damn poor people just take their $10/hr and shut up?"
It's not $67/month healthcare. Its $500/month healthcare that's highly subsidized by the government. You know, like the healthcare in most countries that have "free healthcare." (The ACA is similar to how the Dutch universal healthcare system works.)
> What sort of meal do you suppose a person gets at a sit down restaurant for less than $10?
Often, a really good one!
> How is a young married couple supposed to establish some wealth and make their way in life on $20K/year each?
They're not supposed to. They get better jobs, they get promoted, etc. From age 22 to age 38, the 25th percentile individual income (so 75% of people make more than that) triples from $10,000/year to $30,000/year.
> Every day HN amazes me at how completely out of touch some people are. "I make six figures typing on a screen in an air conditioned room all day. Why can't these damn poor people just take their $10/hr and shut up?"
It's the people earning six figures talking about hypothetical people trying to support a family of four on $10/hour that are completely out of touch. Yes, that's the reality for some people and it's sad. But for every one of those people, there are a bunch of 20-somethings making $10/hour who will move onto something better.
People imagine 35 year olds with kids making $10/hour, but that's an outlier. The median household income for people aged 35-44 is $80,000 per year, and for married people that age it's even higher. And remember: that median couple lives in Topeka, not Palo Alto.