u/Environmental-Low-57

I genuinely don’t understand how the US works. I’ll see on here that some people work 40h week or more and/or earn $2000+ and still can’t live a decent normal life? What is minimum wage? How can you not afford to live a basic decent life working over 40h a week and making 2000 a month? What is the median income? How do you guys survive? And why is it deemed as normal???

Sincerely ,

Someone is French (Parisian) and has lived in the UK for a decade.