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Minimum wage in BC is likely to get you around $30,000.

That's not enough to pay for the basics, and it's also more than double what a lot of people are surviving on.

Median income in BC is somewhere in the range of $50,000. More than 4x the welfare rate.

If you have any sort of professional job, you're likely making something like $60,000. That's 5x.

I make even more than that.

With food prices and interest rates, I'm currently underwater.

Things are really hard.

But it would be wildly offensive for me to imply that I have any experience or knowledge about what poverty is like.

I do not.

That is not what poverty is.