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NO.

De facto numbers are averaged. Minimum wage is for an absolute, uncrossable line.

With Bloomberg's dishonest way of calculating you can have a de-facto minimum wage of 15 and *still* have many people on 8. Or do you seriously believe that there is not even one cleaner, housekeeper, day-worker, waiter or gardener on less than 15 dollars an hour in America?

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A Grumpy Computer Scientist

UK-based AI professor interested in AI, mind, science, rationality, digital culture and innovation. Hobbies: incessantly fighting nonsense.