BigMacPhisto
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I agree that it's not the ideal, just that it's a smarter option for the poor and uneducated than merely moving from place to place where the rent is cheap because that's just a poverty trap.
My girlfriend is an engineer and chose to switch jobs to work in San Francisco again recently. But me? I'm kind of in the same boat where the field I work in pays so much more in SF due to the high minimum wage being a starting point that it would be stupid to work anywhere else. Sitting on BART for both of us is pretty chill though since you don't have to do anything but sit.
The cost of living in San Francisco that BVS points out has nothing to do with the minimum wage. For one thing, I'd imagine the majority of workers earning the current SF minimum or close to it don't even live in the city (frankly, it would be too unaffordable for anyone on that sort of hourly wage). Secondly, the minimum wage has done nothing whatsoever to raise the cost of housing in the city. That has everything to do with high paying tech workers moving here in droves. The high rents would be the same if the minimum wage here were $7.25 or if it were $15, it's not going to make a difference.
My girlfriend is an engineer and chose to switch jobs to work in San Francisco again recently. But me? I'm kind of in the same boat where the field I work in pays so much more in SF due to the high minimum wage being a starting point that it would be stupid to work anywhere else. Sitting on BART for both of us is pretty chill though since you don't have to do anything but sit.
The cost of living in San Francisco that BVS points out has nothing to do with the minimum wage. For one thing, I'd imagine the majority of workers earning the current SF minimum or close to it don't even live in the city (frankly, it would be too unaffordable for anyone on that sort of hourly wage). Secondly, the minimum wage has done nothing whatsoever to raise the cost of housing in the city. That has everything to do with high paying tech workers moving here in droves. The high rents would be the same if the minimum wage here were $7.25 or if it were $15, it's not going to make a difference.