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Originally Posted by Bladewire
The minimum wage in Australia is $18 an hour and they're doing great.
It's absurd to think that an unskilled worker in America can work multiple minimum wage jobs now @ even 105 hours a week and still not be able to afford rent, transportation & food, but that's where a lot of America is at now, the working poor as corporations make record profits and increase wages an average of 2% a year, as rent increases 10% a year, food 3% a year, gas is up 20%, the list goes on.
I worked 3 jobs in high school at the same time to support myself and I had to rent a room from an old lady. After graduating I could afford my own studio but no money for a car. It's even worse for minimum wage workers nowdays they qualify for public assistance working full time, that's a result of the business world being greedy and lobbying for the government to foot the bill instead of paying fair wages.
When I lived in Australia everyone I knew owned a home & a rental property and most owned a boat. The waitress at the shithole cafe made $25 and hour plus tips and just bought her first condo.
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I’m not sure people in Australia on minimum wage are “doing great” a lot of those jobs are casual, low hours available jobs. The majority of Australians are under-employed and there are now more casual and part-time workers than full-time permanent workers here.
This waitress on 25 bucks, for a forty hour week that’s a thousand bucks or 50k a year. I’m gonna hazard a guess that the condo is not in a major city?
Added to that, the AUD to USD exchange rate is shit too, 18 AUD is about 13 USD.