With Day of Protests, Fast-Food Workers Seek More Pay

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

$2.10 in the 1970s went a lot farther than $7.25 does today. Gas, housing and food was all cheaper on an inflation adjusted basis. Not to mention that in the 70's only about 10% of young people had a college degree. Now it's around 25%. Finding a job that pays a livable wage without a college degree is a lot harder than it was back then.

The idea that "everyone can be rich if they just worked harder" just doesn't work. It's simple math. You can't have a society where every electrician, cop, teacher, construction worker, gardener, waiter, plumber, secretary and everyone else that's needed for society to, you know, function makes $100,000 a year. Telling people that they need to shut the hell up because they're lazy and I pulled myself up by my bootstraps all by myself is a simplistic mindset that ignores the reality of the way the world actually works.

Intentionally conflating the idea of "anyone can be rich" and "everyone can be rich" is bad form.

My God Mookie, nothing goes right for you. I don't know bud. I worked hard all my life. Two jobs. Both menial. Went to school at the same time. So yes, my experience would indicate hard work pays off. It is not a idea. It's truth you choose to ignore. Sometimes the simplistic idea is the correct idea. And yeah, the wages to cost of living are all relative when comparing the time period of said pay and that cost of living.