The Powers That be encouraged shipping good-paying jobs overseas, replacing our well-paid techies with H1Bs, and winked at cheap illegal labor pouring across our border.
Result: A hollowed out middle class, too many educated young people for too few well-paid jobs. What to do? Raise the wages of low-paid unskilled jobs.
Been working for years, so now that's the only alternative.
Exactly. But it can’t sustain itself. Merit based increases make sense. Across the board, everyone gets one, doesn’t.