Pickles516
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2021
Nobody’s saying a fast food worker should be able to afford a mansion. I’m saying they should be able to afford an apartment, food, and transportation to and from work. Wages haven’t even attempted to keep up with the costs of living, even though minimum wage was explicitly designed to allow a full time worker to support a family. Now it can’t even support the individual.Thank you for your response.
Maybe it was my thinking that a person working in a fast food restaurant and wanting to live in Windermere Fl, in my mind it is an example that I never put into writing.
The economic landscape is different today than it was back then. As cost have gone up through history so have wages. For the most part wages usually never keep up with certain lifestyles henceforth my ideology of people either work more hours or find a different job that pays more. People had the same struggles back then as they do now. When I worked at Disney people complained about not making enough money, who ever really makes enough money of the ordinary working class.
I am not sure how old you are and I am not asking however I had my first real job back in the early 80s. Thing may have been different back then as was my thinking.
The statement I made about people being where they wanted to be in life is something I have lived by my self starting with that first real job. So if some people find that to be indifferent to them I may be wrong, and maybe I am but that was the way I was raised. I think it was also part of the way of life where I was raised.
When my wife and I left New Jersey back in the 90s I was making a substantial income. I decided I wanted to some day work for Disney, so thats what we did.
I went from making that substantial amount of money to making $6.10 an hour with a .25 cent raise after 90 days if my memory is correct.
My friends thought I was crazy for taking the pay cut I was taking and asked why don't you just do what you do in NJ in Fl. I said I wanted a change and lived by my people are where they are at in life ideal. The idea may be outdated but it is still true.
Believing that people are where they want to be in life, and are simply impoverished by choice is just so far out of the realm of reality that I don’t even really know how to address it. If that’s what you believe then that’s what you believe, but I can’t really see a productive avenue for this conversation to take if we’re even pretending that’s a premise worth entertaining.