Poll of the Day > Imagine making less than $20 an hour when youre over 20 yrs old in 2020.

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...imagine?

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Joker_X_II posted...

Being 20 years old, you're still fresh out of high school still trying to figure out life....it's not hard to imagine there are a lot of early 20'ers out there, doing shitty wage-cuck jobs.

Wouldn't be too quick and eager to laugh at that age demographic......however, if they were in their 30s or 40s...that's something to snicker at....

Minimum Wage jobs are supposed to be "starter jobs" for young people to expose themselves in the work-force and how to pay taxes. Now it's being co-op'd by immigrants and basic losers established within, thinking these jobs should be paying well enough to house and feed a small family (along with spinning rims for their Honda hatchback and a gold-plated iphone because they like to delude themselves thinking they belong in a Cardi-B video).

Thats not what minimum wage jobs were when they were implemented. Minimum Wage was the bare minimum needed to survive and pay your bills. Now it's evolved into "starter jobs" because it hasn't gone up with inflation correctly for decades. If minimum wage went up with inflation since it was first implemented it would be over $20/hr right now.

Even before I got my upgraded wages and training my wage was $21.33/hr and that was a hard struggle when I was only getting 40/hr weeks. I could only swing it if I was working at least 50 hours per week but any lower and it was rough.

I don't know how people make it on these low wage $12/hr jobs. It might be fine for living at home with no bills to pay (even then it's questionable) it would be impossible. They're not even worth doing because they literally couldn't pay anything. I'd rather sell drugs or something than work for minimum wage. That's brutal

Matt_256 posted...

I don't know how people make it on these low wage $12/hr jobs. It might be fine for living at home with no bills to pay (even then it's questionable) it would be impossible. They're not even worth doing because they literally couldn't pay anything. I'd rather sell drugs or something than work for minimum wage. That's brutal

It's possible. For like 2 years, I had a different job. And it didn't pay much. I did like in an area with a lower cost of living, though. So, I could still make the bills. I also had a roommate who paid half of everything. So, it can be possible with a roommate of roommates. And depending on the actual cost of everything. But it still sucked. I had to pretty much work overtime to not get too far behind. Luckily, I went back to my job on base. Much better. So, it's like I never got out of the Air Force... Though, the rules are a little different...
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These "are poor people actually real" takes are always so fucking bizarre.

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Imagine producing less than $20 worth of net value for your company or community.

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Unfortunately, that's how it is with many people.

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