To people in their 60s and 70s $20/hr sounds like a lot of money. It’s not.
“sounds like a lot of money”-not unless they are living under a rock or well-to-do and living on a golf course-most of us real people are running a business and understand money and how it works-duh...
To us, it is a lot. We're in our 70s. When we started dating in our late teens, cheeseburgers were 24 cents. Fries were 17 cents, milkshakes 19 cents. One of my jobs was work at a gas station, gas being 22 cents a gallon. My salary was about $1.60/hour at 18 ($1.20 when I worked at 16), about 12-1/2 times that minimum wage of $20/hour now. To us, that is a lot. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be lifelong career jobs. For me, it served me well as a teen, and my salary soon grew in my early 20s. We improved our job prospects as we got older and raised a family. That should be the goal of young people.