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20 bucks an hour in some areas is literally unlivable. That's around 40k yearly (before taxes), and in the areas where the minimum wage should be at least 20 an hour, that's barely enough to afford to live.

> I can't imagine it makes starting a new small business any easier when you're required to pay employees $20/hr.

Why should workers suffer because some techbro wants to get rich from the Nth AI chatbot he shits out using VC money?



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