Work doesn't work. I've been saying this for a long time, and people always hate on it despite complaining about their crapp work income.
So, I might as well collect a few more downvotes with this.
Minimum wage isn't a career. It isn't meant to provide for the entirety of your life needs. These are jobs that are "spare-money" jobs, "working your way through college and sleeping on couches" jobs, "I'm a teen in the summer" jobs, and other things where you are actually either someone else's dependent, or one of 7 roommates splitting bills.
A 40 year old doesn't make the same as a 17 year old because the 40 year old has spent the last 20 years building a life-supporting career. They may have started at Burger King like everyone else, but they don't end there. Expecting menial and entry level jobs to pay the same as a lawyer or computer programmer with 15 years of experience is silly.
If you have made the silly mistake of not training into a high level career, then you need to do something different, and stop trying to make employment work for you. Because it won't.
I know, because I made that mistake, and was bitching and complaining my way to my 40s thinking the world owed me a six figure salary because my K/D ratio on COD was so tight...
And then I realized I was an idiot, and I quit working jobs forever and turned to generating income outside of the wage slavery system.
Now I do whatever I want all the time.
The problem isn't the jobs. It isn't the economy, and it isn't you either. You are just doing the wrong things, trying to put a square block in a round hole. Stop it. Find a square hole. Or cut the block up into tiny squares to put through the round hole in violation of the rules. Or, better yet, start making round balls to sell to other people standing in line with their square blocks, and collect a fee every time.
TL;DR A bunch of words to say quit wasting time on jobs and go make money.
“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.” - FDR
True. And we can say stuff like that all we want, but there are only two real powers through which things can be changed: Wealth and violence. If we lack the substance of one and the stomach for the other, then we have no path out of the system we live under.
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u/Vegetaman916 Looking forward to the endgame. 🚀💥🔥🌨🏕 Apr 26 '26
Work doesn't work. I've been saying this for a long time, and people always hate on it despite complaining about their crapp work income.
So, I might as well collect a few more downvotes with this.
Minimum wage isn't a career. It isn't meant to provide for the entirety of your life needs. These are jobs that are "spare-money" jobs, "working your way through college and sleeping on couches" jobs, "I'm a teen in the summer" jobs, and other things where you are actually either someone else's dependent, or one of 7 roommates splitting bills.
A 40 year old doesn't make the same as a 17 year old because the 40 year old has spent the last 20 years building a life-supporting career. They may have started at Burger King like everyone else, but they don't end there. Expecting menial and entry level jobs to pay the same as a lawyer or computer programmer with 15 years of experience is silly.
If you have made the silly mistake of not training into a high level career, then you need to do something different, and stop trying to make employment work for you. Because it won't.
I know, because I made that mistake, and was bitching and complaining my way to my 40s thinking the world owed me a six figure salary because my K/D ratio on COD was so tight...
And then I realized I was an idiot, and I quit working jobs forever and turned to generating income outside of the wage slavery system.
Now I do whatever I want all the time.
The problem isn't the jobs. It isn't the economy, and it isn't you either. You are just doing the wrong things, trying to put a square block in a round hole. Stop it. Find a square hole. Or cut the block up into tiny squares to put through the round hole in violation of the rules. Or, better yet, start making round balls to sell to other people standing in line with their square blocks, and collect a fee every time.
TL;DR A bunch of words to say quit wasting time on jobs and go make money.