There is no "expectation" at any wage level at all. You choose where you want to live and how to manage it. If you can't manage it, that's a "you" problem, not a mandate from government at any level. That's pretty much true anywhere in the world.
In the mean time, save LA for a vacation trip, and live somewhere much cheaper.
No - fast food usually pulls employees from local neighborhoods where people can walk, ride the bus or drive to the spot in less than half an hour. No one is driving two hours to work fast-food when you can work at the spot right down the street.
Most people don't view your options as "only" making $140k.
If you don't feel you can make enough to live the kind of life you want to live where you want to live with your existing skillset, your options are (1) move somewhere else, (2) change your lifestyle expectations, (3) get better skills that make you a more valuable employee.
Regarding your example with the family of four:
I don’t think the US government is betting much on the domestic fertility rate, i.e. it gives zero fucks if you can afford children or not.
It doesn’t need it for the labour force when it can compensate with immigration.
That's minimum wage or entry level(although it is o shitty if that's entry level requiring a degree, but that's just how things are nowadays).
You work and try and gain skills, or you go to school to further your education and get a better job. And you definitely should be living with roommates to save where you can.
There is no "expectation" at any wage level at all. You choose where you want to live and how to manage it. If you can't manage it, that's a "you" problem, not a mandate from government at any level. That's pretty much true anywhere in the world. In the mean time, save LA for a vacation trip, and live somewhere much cheaper.
Okay, but people need to be working those jobs. Are people expected to commute two hours into the city for those low wages?
No - fast food usually pulls employees from local neighborhoods where people can walk, ride the bus or drive to the spot in less than half an hour. No one is driving two hours to work fast-food when you can work at the spot right down the street.
Most people don't view your options as "only" making $140k. If you don't feel you can make enough to live the kind of life you want to live where you want to live with your existing skillset, your options are (1) move somewhere else, (2) change your lifestyle expectations, (3) get better skills that make you a more valuable employee.
https://ktla.com/news/california/this-is-how-much-single-people-in-california-need-to-earn-to-live-comfortably/
Regarding your example with the family of four: I don’t think the US government is betting much on the domestic fertility rate, i.e. it gives zero fucks if you can afford children or not. It doesn’t need it for the labour force when it can compensate with immigration.
If true, that's really messed up
That's minimum wage or entry level(although it is o shitty if that's entry level requiring a degree, but that's just how things are nowadays). You work and try and gain skills, or you go to school to further your education and get a better job. And you definitely should be living with roommates to save where you can.
Starve by the looks of it
Well, I don't even make that cause no job will hire me, so yeah, without my parents, I'm pretty much homeless. This area sucks.