If you have a minimum wage job, you have limited skills to offer potential employers. That doesn’t mean you are a bad person, but you are paid what you are worth. It does not take a genius to stock shelves at Walmart. Work hard, try to improve your skills, and hopefully your wages and position at the company will improve. /life lesson 101
Or the level of supply of potential workers with the skill set needed is much higher than for jobs requirement a higher level of skills.
Easy to say but the system does not work as it used to. Current college graduates cannot pass an eighth grade final from my era even though they have spent many more years and a huge amount of money going to school. Jobs of the sort that used to be filled by high school graduates or even dropouts now demand a degree. Just a very short time ago Freepers were insisting that anyone who earns an engineering degree is set up to make a fine income. Now we are hearing of a shortage of employment for new engineers. Young people now can work very hard and not do nearly as well as those of my generation could do with a half hearted effort.
Less than three miles from where I sit is an empty building which used to house a sythetic fibers operation which closed down in November 2008. Young people who have earned a university degree now will be very lucky indeed if they can find employment paying what warehouse workers in that plant were earning fifteen years ago and that was a NON-union plant in South Carolina, not an area known for high wages.