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Originally Posted by Aces4
Which is why there's so much turnover at low-paying jobs. No one is willing to stick around in them. Employers refuse to pay more for what amounts to "temporary help" and the help won't stay without better pay.
If you are at Publix you have to be willing to change locations to anywhere within the district. So that $50k/year doesn't really make up for the fact that you have to drive an hour each way, you get no breaks, and if the next shift's boss can't make it, you're stuck there pulling a double - even if it's your kid's birthday and you promised to be home to make supper. Basically your $50/year job has to be your life. You don't get to say no.
The only thing you learn about business and economics working at a diner is that some people overtip, and some people don't tip at all, and some people walk out without paying, you get pinched, abused, called "hey you," yelled at because your customer's steak was a shade too pink on the inside, threatened, pushed and kicked by little kids, tripped by "comfort animals," and if you don't smile and bend over and take it however the boss and your customers feel like dishing it out, you can business and economy yourself into a different job…
QUOTE FROM ORANGEBLOSSOMBABY
I get it now, the newest generation, heaven forbid, should not have to pay the dues our generations paid. We would have liked fine compensation for our hard and often dirty labor so we could have lived high on the horse for our service jobs.
We lived with small compensation and much less in our lives and sometimes the money was gone before the food ran out. But we worked so hard, did without and slowly pulled ourselves up with ambition and focus and pride.
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Once upon a time, minimum wage at a full time job could actually get basic expenses covered in most parts of the country. Food, shelter, transportation to your job. That's what it was designed to do, that was its function. That is no longer true. Minimum wage didn't keep up with inflation. Inflation isn't caused by an increase in minimum wage. Were that the case, the *federal* minimum wage would be well over $12/hour. Instead, it's still $7.25/hour. There are still some states that only require $7.25/hour minimum wage, and many jobs that still only pay $7.25/hour minimum wage.
That is not the cause of inflation. It is a symptom of inflation.