If it isn’t flippin’ burgers or waiting tables, then it isn’t a real job, if you ask the democrats.
They need an impoverished, desperate clientele who is anxious to get up to $15 an hour due to the compassion of a washington politician.
Nothing against the restaurant business, or even against those who flip burgers, but most see it as an entry level job from which the worker is looking to move to a better paying position.
Great, excellent point.
The old Ellis Island variety of immigrant, as well as many workers coming of age, was advancement-minded. He didn’t mind pushing the broom or flipping the burger, but it wasn’t his idea of a lifelong career.
An America that is great would have people advancing from humbly low to higher positions as a matter of course. I’ve already seen this process stultified in the tech world with H1Bs about which the employers don’t care if they ever advance, only that they can fill a skill set NOW. As a result guys like me, with an R&D mindset, are more and more fish out of water.
Exactly.
If you have ever read any of the works of Thomas Sowell, he does a great job of addressing this.
Leftists like to use job levels as a static location for workers and make all of their assumptions from those simplistic (yet completely intentional, I am convinced) models.
In reality, people move in and out of job levels over their lives, and those of us who entered at minimum wage jobs had no intention of staying there our whole lives on stupid “living wage”. We enter and transit through.
This is a debate I would like to see. Liberals complain that you can’t support a family and buy a house on minimum wage. Let’s have that discussion, about how the minimum wage job is a starting point, and not a job intended to pay enough to buy a house.