WalMart jobs were not supposed to lead to a career there. Burger King jobs were not supposed to lead to a career there. On and on.
Well...all was true until the Reagan era. This massive growth of service sector jobs...lead onto service sector careers. So, ask yourself...where does the BK french fry guy go onto? Where does the cashier at WalMart go onto?
I look around now in the local town near where I grew up. When I left...there were two mom and pop restaurants, four gas stations, a grocery, a drug store, and maybe 150 low-paying jobs in the local area. Today...bulked up since 1977...there’s around ten restaurants (McDonalds, KFC, and several others arrived). There’s maybe fifteen more business operations in the town, and maybe a total of 400 low-paying jobs. The only way you could escape this route is higher education. If you don’t do that? You stay for forty years...as the french fry guy.
There’s something wrong, but to say the government can fix it....I don’t think that’s possible.
A lot of the problem IS needless regulation.
In America people used to be able to dream big. You thought you could sell something more attractively than the next guy, well you worked as you could and you scrimped and saved until your doors could open, and you tried it. And it didn’t always work, but frequently it did.
Now big dreams mean big collision with Uncle Sam. The only thing I can see that doesn’t, is intellectual property where you’re pretty much the sole producer... like software or songs.