Lazy Americans.....‘We’re a Movement Now': Fast Food Workers Strike in 150 Cities (edit) OP is poor, don't act like I am being all high and mighty!

[outlawauron]

Hoodieninja said:

outlawauron said:

Even at the national minimum, you can live off $150-200 easily on food alone. There are plenty of apartments that you can get for $400-500/month (with more options with roommates to decrease that cost).

That's slightly more than half of your income. It's a bad situation, but a minimum wage isn't ever supposed to be a good situation. You're being paid to be a unskilled, unexperienced laborer.

I don't know where you live where rent is only 400-500 a month but where I'm at the Average for a one room apartment is 1000-1200 or higher.
Minimum Wage is suppose to help you get back on your feet, it does neither. Minimum Wage back in the 1950's was able to provide a decent living for a family and help them get back on their feet.

Roomates LOL, Minimum Wage is suppose to help you become independent relying on Roomates is technically cheating.

I guarantee I can find something in that range if you live in the US. Whatever the average rent is is largely irrelevant. You don't make average money, so you don't get an average apartment.

I don't how roommates are cheating. Roommates are one of the most common things in society.