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negative, entry level just like working at the local supermarket as a bag boy or at the local McD's outside of management are meant to train one to interact with people...flipping burgers is not worth $15 an hour, it is a motivator for you to better your self. and yes, I flipped burgers while I was in school and managed to survive.
So stop being poor.
Says who? You?
This is BS.
So what?
No, their wages will still probably go up over time. It'll just take time is all. And its not like they're made to suffer really here either since their income isn't changing.
Hahahaa if it was easy to be rich in this country almost everyone would be wealthy instead of 1 paycheque away from losing everything.
Wealth inequality is skyrocketing to levels not seen since before the Great Depression, home ownership is plummeting while younger generations are forced to live with their parents well into their late 20's or 30's, while blue collar jobs are being outsourced or eliminated wholesale but nah its all the workers' fault.
Dude nearly all of that stuff is cheap these days. The exception is the car but car sales aren't what they used to be for a reason AND are heavily funded via debt and people keep their cars for longer than they used to as well.
"Unecessary garbage" like a phone and a internet connection are actually pretty much necessary and public transport is a joke almost everywhere in the US. Biking is also a sick joke since often times you work far from where you live since the jobs tend to be in the city and you're often forced to live where its cheap to rent or in Mom n' Pop's house in the suburbs. Its not at all practical to expect people to bike 2hr+ daily to and from work. Coupons are usually worthless and even many of the secondhand clothes stores aren't as cheap as they used to be since they now often export used clothes overseas.
Increased wages aren't pocket picking dude. The amount they'll effect prices are minimal vs the effects of inflation over just the past decade.
Sure but you do realize you're effectively giving a reason to raise wages here right?
Most were pretty decent until the housing bubble blew up and their nations took on the banks bad debt which blew out their balance sheets. Same thing happened over here in the US BTW although the wars were blowing our cash on also added to that load quite a bit too. Some had lower debt loads than the US did at the time though.
When did I say it should be a career?
You think fast food jobs are easy?? They're generally regarded as crappy for a reason dude.
People getting paid properly for their work isn't entitlement.
There are many disabled people who have severe limitations in what they can do. Some people CAN'T do more. Would you rather have those people working & producing something or just sitting at home?
So we should raise the minimum wage for everyone because a small minority of workers have disabilities that prevent them from doing anything other than minimum wage jobs that never provide raises?
If you have a point to make, make it. If not, bother somebody else.
Really? You're bringing the disabled into this? And born on a farm? Seriously?OK, I can see that you have no sense of or understanding of humor, so I guess you are not doing stand up for the extra cash...
You volunteered to post here & read here & you can scroll past - if I am "bothering" you.
But since you asked for a specific point...
RE: Most permanently poor people in the US are poor due to bad decions they made.Yeah, there are repurcussions to shitty decision making.
I'm sure you will deny / twist / turn this into - it's your own fault - you should not have been born on a farm, your divorce is because you married the wrong woman - not that she changed & you are forced to pay child support & alimony due to YOUR decisions - not hers (because I should have been able to control my "partner" but I chose the wrong one - the one who changed as an independent human), or that drunk guy who totaled your truck & put you in the hospital and disabled you - that's YOUR (my) fault because you left your house that one day at that particular time - ad nauseum... It's all YOUR (my) fault.
My point is that you are myopic and your POV is that of the compassionless self-absorbed.
That's basically every workplace ever. If you're a regular dependable worker, that does the job well, there will come a time sooner or later when even interns will make the same money that you do, which you got to incrementally trough 10+ years of solid service to the company.
How do you define "wealthy few"?
Generally speaking wealthy people are those who make ~$120K/yr+ since that puts you in the top ~10% of all earners globally.
I don't care. I did to you know. You also shouldn't care about that either.
Hahahaha WTF??! There was nothing about working in fast food that prepared me at all for any other job. It was a crap tier job that I got because as a teenager that was about all I could get at the time. The only "skill" that I learned there that I still use anywhere is how to bust down boxes really quick and fold them up so they fit in a recycle bin neatly.
You do realize that almost everyone fails at retirement planning right?
Say it with me.
Then raise the minimum wage even higher. Recent info shows that Amazon isn't exactly poor, and Jeff Bezos is now the richest man alive. He doens't need a second gold toilet, but the Amazon workers sure could use a toilet so they don't piss in bottles.
Prices are going up regardless, so it makes sense to keep up. People owe more money than ever, including more than in 2008. You want a recession? Cause that's how you get a recession.
Then tell the banks to stop raising interest rates and artificially causing inflation. People can't afford to buy a home let a lone a car cause the prices have done up to 2008 levels and beyond.
Your first link has no stats or anything meaningful to support it so it's just an opinion piece I won't bother addressing. I don't think that article was aimed at the US, it seemed to be discussing poverty on a global level anyway. Either way, it was a shit article.
You believe the system is fair? Not at all. You can't expect fair treatment of employees in an economic system that rewards unfair treatment.
I'm just saying everyone should have a chance to earn a living that will support a basic lifestyle on a single job.
So let's say disabled (not just physically, but mentally) can only do certain jobs. Would you rather have companies (by law) forced to pay a certain (minimum) wage so those employees can maintain a very basic lifestyle, or would you rather have the companies pay a sub-standard wage and YOUR TAXES subsidize this person for life via social programs?
