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I'll put this discussion a different way. I think that minimum wage jobs should have some sort of training for those working in it. That way you'll always have progression. New hires get that option after being there for a year. After a year they get trained as a supervisor. The then supervisors get trained on as head supervisors, head supervisors get trained in asst. management, and asst. management get trained on as managers.

With that progression system you will always have new people coming on and more people will be able to attain liveable wages through experience.

Sure you will have your share of leavers, but of the say 4 new hires on, at least one of them will become a supervisor, and you will have the option of making liveable wages.

For me it would go the route of a martial arts belt. With some forms of martial arts(I take TKD as an example) you don't just get your yellow, green, blue, red or black belts, you have to work for it.

Something like 1 year(supervisor), 2 years(as supervisor to be head supervisor), 4 years(as head supervisor to be asst. manager), 8 years(as asst. manager to be manager). And branching off of that, by that time the management assuming they started when they were 18 years old, will be around 33 and can branch off to franchise owner, running their own company, or having working knowledge to fill holes in other companies.

Now obviously the example above would be for something like a Mcdonalds, or Wal-Mart. But with those of us taking courses at the same time, those companies can work with colleges or universities to give credit, thus lowering the workload in our education.

Not only that, but it would give many of us the option to both grow up mentally, and learn numerous skills that would benefit us in the long run, like budgeting, taxes, management skills and more importantly vocal and organisational skills which many of us lack, myself included.

You would never have to worry about money if you got the proper training to better yourself. With a regular worker making 11-12 dollars an hour and each position higher making either more money or given more hours, you would naturally start making at least liveable wages.

By no means is this an excuse to not get an education or stay in the lower fields, but you could easily end most forms of poverty in our particular countries if this system was in place, and at the same time give some sort of semblance to a progressing country instead of one where nearly a quarter are homeless or barely able to afford minimum wage.

There was a thing long ago where when you became 18 years old you had to enlist in the military. I'd do the same, but just with minimum wage jobs. Force your 18 year olds to gain the social skills and give them ever increasing hours, to the point where after a year they are working the 40-50 hour work weeks, with scheduled regular breaks, not all over the place schedules. If you are scheduled to work that is your schedule not just for the week, but every week barring holidays, maintenance and breaks.

If your son/daughter has graduated high school they don't immediately go into college. They need to work at least a year before attending an education facility. Round out the edges so to speak.

If you are scheduled to work Monday through Friday from 10-5, that's your schedule and it won't change until you "rank up" so to speak, to supervisor, or whatever that position will be. Gives people the option to get back on a regular sleep schedule as well. If your working mornings thats your deal. If your working nights, same deal. There are options to switch shifts, but order and structure will help in the long run.

I seem to have started blabbering on and blabbering on. But I think you get my points. Maybe its the ADD meds I have been taking, but my points are far more focused than before.

Provide a system where people can better themselves.