Minimum wages
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Recently, the government fixed the minimum wage of a garment worker at BDT 3,000 per month. It is an increase of BDT 1500 per month. It looks like very high increment on paper. But would any economic expert give a breakdown of BDT 3000 to prepare a monthly household expenditure for a worker within this fixed amount? I am interested to know how much would be spent on housing, on food, on clothes and other incidental expenses including medical expenses for a single person. I have not included any recreation expenses because those are not for the workers, as they are not considered humans by the owners but parts of machine. It seems to me we are living in eighteenth century England, at the beginning of industrial age.
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