Ooo , how exciting <| sep |> That is sadly better minimum wage than I get where I live , and the cost of living is utterly crazy out here I literally cannot afford to live by myself in a single room apartment , as the rent for one starts at $ 800900 dollars a month . I lucked out and found a roommate with the same problem , so we ' re doing okay but it ' s still incredibly crazy that we get paid a minimum wage of less than $ 10 hr and yet have these crazy apartment rates . <| sep |> If that ' s true , which I ' m not conceding it is , but maybe it ' s because liberal voters don ' t show up to support the liberal establishment so they need support from somewhere if they even hope of getting some kind of progress moving forward .