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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

A minimum wage job is not something that really has to be able to support someone, let alone a family. Look at the work involved, you put fries in oil and mop floors for 8 hours and go home. We can automate for less cost than human workers, so the labor is not worth more than a few dollars an hour. In essence, anyone who can't do more complicated or valuable work has no value to the market and should be at least understanding that the only reason they have work at all is that other people, for differing reasons, have kept low wage positions available. We don't live in an era where menial labor is very useful anymore, so why do people still expect to be able to live a decent life with no skills??
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Try living without those folks doing what they do.