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While not legally the same, the UK comes close with its minimum wage/living wage gap: society acknowledges that minimum wage is not enough to make a living (in some areas) so it expects workers to be paid the living wage instead. I don't think this is mandated by law though, so you could have situations where workers are paid below the socially expected "minimum" wage.

At least they acknowledge the problem.



'We' also renamed the minimum wage to the National Living Wage because the tories.


The living wage is kind of different, though. The difference might be 10-20% or so.

It's not like the US situation where the 'minimum' of $2 or whatever it is would be absolutely unliveable.




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