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Originally Posted by The Reaper
As has been noted, an entry wage should not be your lifetime goal.
It is a temporary measure which should increase as your duties and responsibilities do.
Most people who take entry level jobs are applying for their first job.
Subsequent jobs should build upon that experience and be for higher wages.
Unemployment in Seattle is headed up, and automation to replace workers is going to be booming.
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One of the things I think is clearly lacking in the 99%/"living wage" narrative is how the fast food brands are being heavily targeted.
Right now we just had a attempted strike on branded franchises down here(McDonald's locally owned by local New Zealanders).
When I was a kid, McDonalds was where high school kids got part-time jobs(often their first employment), and a few adults worked their way up the food chain to management and franchise ownership(for the hard chargers).
*High school kids got pocket money
*College kids worked summers to make money for school
*Some adults had decent full time jobs
*A few adults achieved the American Dream through effort in their own franchise
Now the poor fiscal/monetary/trade mismanagement by government over a number of years has led those mostly temporary jobs to be arbitrarily deemed the new blue collar jobs to fully support individuals and families.
What was designed(or maybe shaped) as filling a void(small number of adults, large number of young students) is now resulting in a square peg being smashed into a round hole.....and being blamed for the problem.
It's like blaming a sustenance farmer(times thousands) for not producing enough food when the government has diverted the river upon which you are reliant for irrigation.
Minimum wage employers aren't the
cause, but they are being made somehow responsible for the
effect.