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But somehow immigrants legal and illegal come here and can afford multiple kids, an older car, apartment rent and home cooked meals. Often times with mom not working.
Do you think the desire to live an upper middle-class lifestyle right out if college impacts any of that. The latest cellphone with the top-of-the-line plan, Starbucks every day, Door Dash every night rather than grocery shopping and cooking and wanting an apartment with all the luxuries they had at mom and dad’s.
I’m an old guy, but when I first got married 50 years ago, we lived in a cheap apartment, ate a lot of home cooked rice and beans, drove used cars, made homemade Christmas cards and gifts and seldom went out. After 5 years we were able to pay off my student loan and buy our first small house. We built from there. We didn’t start out at the level our parents were living, but we eventually surpassed them.
Yes child labor laws swung to the opposite extreme so that young adults can’t be hired.
BTTT!!!
> All I will say you have to be very careful what store you end up at. If you are the odd group out, it can be dangerous. <
Good point. It’s not Eisenhower’s America anymore.
$200 a day. Pretty good money for a 16 yr old.
And in New York State, Mom is paid “child” support payments on “child’s” behalf through age 21, yet said “child” can vote as an adult at age 18, 19 and 20.
RE: Gen Z...
They vote Democrat and expect subsidies and checks from the government.
3 times in ten years? I changed jobs 3 times in one year and got my salary up 50%. When I was comfortable with my salary and it was commensurate with the workload, I worked really really hard. Only a sucker takes these low ball jobs.
Yes they are big proponents of “housing is a human right and should be free” crowd as well as universal basic income.
P.s. a (truly) Amish kid would have done it for half that much and done a much better job instead of b1tching about the work.
Of course, they are taught a work ethic and most modern kids today are not. I blame the parents for coddling them.
Bump for later.
Used to happen to me all the time. I would slip in the penny with the $10. They would push it back. Run the machine.. and hand me a pile of change. Siiigh.
So it seems that GIGO applies to employment too.
I got into my line of work because it was hard and my exact thought was that “no one is gonna fight me for this job”. Summers suck because I too hate like hell to sweat but what are a gonna do?
I wonder how many of the complainers sent their kids to public school in order to maintain their ‘deserved’ lifestyle...
“Something clearly needs to be fixed and few politicians are even mentioning this.”
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The politicians don’t want to fix anything. The more problems there are, the more rationales they have for spending more of our money on handouts and ineffective government programs. And, if they actually fixed problems there would be fewer opportunities for graft and corruption.
Societal dysfunction is very profitable for the politicians.
The “how dare you” people.
They're not stupid: if they have to choose between being forced to work hard and live miserably and living miserably on the dole by voting for socialism, they'll vote for socialism.
You need a carrot as well as a stick to motivate people.
That guy who moved three times in ten years is almost certainly making a better income than the "committed" employee who stayed at the same company for ten years. More than likely, he will end up being the boss too.
And large corporations show absolutely zero commitment to employees. It is hard to even make ten years in a company what with layoffs and sudden moves of the headquarters to a new city. Why should new hires feel "committed"?
And where are the apprenticeships or training programs? Company executives expect to strip-mine the labor force of previously trained and experienced people picked up from "somewhere else". The supply is running out.
Training (retraining) Generation Z is all that we have left. It can be done. It will not be a pleasant experience.
It’s OK, they’ll all be Tik Tok billionaires.
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