welfare vs wages

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

rudeboy, i hope you read over that whole paper, and take note of the majority of people that would be affected (not teens) etc.

This simply documents the rise in the # of baby boomers entering the work force from 1968 to present day. Yes, supply and demand dictates pricing/wages. When low/no skilled jobs are in abundance, the wages lower.

When there are too many unskilled laborers than there are unskilled jobs, the wages are lower.

They should be. That's how it's supposed to work.

How about addressing the problem, rather than blaming employers for it?

It is not an employer's responsibility to float the economy by overcharging their customers for products and services in order to make sure someone working the fryer at Mcdonalds in Queens can afford to live in an apartment.

This has been going on for almost 50 years, yet it has just been in recent times (the last 10 years or so) that there has been this clamoring of entitlement.

Somehow people who make irresponsible choices and who then provide little to no value to the society they occupy need to be compensated on the same level as those that take responsibility for themselves.

I'll say it again - NOBODY worked these jobs expecting to raise a family or even take care of themselves off the wages. As a kid, I worked countless minimum wage jobs - KFC to Golden Corral to stock boy in a grocery to lot attendant on car lots. EVERYBODY, with the exception of the managers, were there to make a few bucks - never in a million years expecting that the wages would sustain us - it's laughable. They were part time jobs, after school and on the weekends. the college students worked their class schedule and filled in when they didn't have class or needed to study. The Retirees typically worked the day shifts when the rest of us were in school.

Now, you have a generation of people, that have decided that this is all they want to do with themselves, and the onus is now on the employers to compensate them at an absurd rate in order for them to do so.

Let's try this - instead of demanding that employers overpay for your unskilled services, how about get an education, learn a trade, serve in the military to learn relateable civilian job skills and actually improve your life instead of forcing someone to give you a hand out?