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by h0l0cube 2260 days ago
> Imagine for instance the stereotypical Frankston junkie.

I'd like to see data comparing minimum wage to drug abuse, but there's a few problems with trying to make that correlation. E.g., social welfare measures would largely factor in here, but I imagine that both minimum wage and welfare measures typically go hand in hand. But by naive comparison, just this wiki article seems to show that opiates abuse is about 5 times greater in the US vs Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...