I'm not kidding.
This is a yearly salary of $71,760. That still leaves you rent-burdened in the top ten cities.
The half-time is really only a cost for service workers. (who 100% deserve it)
Because let's be honest: most people only do 20h of work in a 40h week.
i cite Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (RIP king) as proof, even though i have never even read so much as the cover flap. not because i am a dumbass, but because my confidence in his work is unflinching.
if you account for both inflation and productivity gains it would be about $24/hr. so that's $960 weekly vs $1380 weekly.
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$1380 - $960 = $420
it's exactly $420 more per week than if the minimum wage has kept up with productivity + inflation.
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so that would be a pretty hefty, but not wildly unreasonable 44% increase in full-time income over what the minimum wage would be today if it hadn't stagnated.
The economy has grown by multiple magnitudes anyways. Inflation is only there to hurt the poor.