• plinky [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      mean wage in usa is like 60k i believe, so 30 k +-. (thats before looking a quintiles) perfectly survivable tbh

      • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Right now 30k per year in the US is hardly survivable outside of rural areas. Rent can cost 30k a year in big cities and 30k a year is a minimum wage job.

        • plinky [he/him]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          4 months ago

          sans rent, as we are talking about products and commodities. And yeah, it would require mao-aggro-shining but outside of that its survivable wage, non? even with medical and utilities prices being slightly bonkers

    • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]
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      4 months ago

      A big difference would also be that all the labor that goes into managing empire would also be able to be put to production for society instead of production for monopoly capitalists. It would ultimately depend on what type of system the US runs under in a hypothetical world where it is moved to semi periphery