Asking the question: What is a living wage? is asking ourselves the wrong question.
the right question is: What does a living thriving economy look like?
The answer is: It is does NOT look like ours does today.
The sector I work in is collapsing to the point Canada as well as Australia is my only near term options it seems
Sorry to hear it.
Lot of that going on in a lot of industries.
Some of us is because of internationaL trade, some of it is technology, and some of it is just the current state of the economy.
I've had at least three distinctly different careers thus far. Some of that was by choice but a lot of it was just following the economy hoping to cash in on what is happening at that time.
One needs to be extrmely adaptable now to surivive.