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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I think that a minimum wage should absolutely be a living wage. 
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For an individual or a family (and if family, what size family and how many working members)?

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Let me make it explicitly clear, since that comment was too much for you to take in. I do not believe that wages should be based on discriminatory demographic categories. Two individuals doing the same exactly job should be paid exactly the same. Simple as that.[/quote]

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Should the living wage be for an individual or a family? If family, what size, how many working members?[/quote]

I believe the PP who you are arguing with answered your question.  Twice.  Re-read what s/he wrote.[/quote]

The PP said that all should get a living wage, and that wage shouldn't matter regardless of working for pin money or rent money. But the PP has not yet said whether a living wage should be defined as supporting an individual, a family with one working member, or a family with two working members. Those are significantly different amounts.[/quote]

NP. I think you need to re-read what PP wrote. They clearly answered this. "Individual" was probably the key word there. [/quote]

Are you referring to "Two individuals doing the same exactly job should be paid exactly the same."? In which case, no, that doesn't indicate how to determine what they should be paid, merely that they should be paid the same (e.g. it doesn't matter if one is working for rent or the other is working for fun).

I ask for clarification, because I find people using "living wage" in multiple different ways. For example, someone might say "A single mom with 3 children to support should be paid a living wage!" just as someone might say "The young man serving coffee should be paid a living wage!" A single young man and a single mom with 3 children probably have different "living wage" needs. It helps a discussion when everyone at least knows what everyone else means, even if we disagree with each other.[/quote]

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