This is not about attacking the idea of a living wage. Or that regular people need to have time off. Absolutely not. Everyone deserves the ability to take days off and rest. But financial reality is financial reality.
To be able to live people need multiple streams of income. That one singular job isn’t enough. You need to have multiple jobs or sources of income.
You can thank the Federal Reserve for creating this kind of insidious form of inflation. It’s literally destroying our country and the economy. The ability for regular Americans to save, have a life, buy a house, plan for a family and a future. All of that is being decimated by this cost of living crisis.
If you can’t afford to feed yourself how can you imagine feeding two little kids?
Life is very difficult for millions of people.