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[–]jet199 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Frankly I really enjoyed it when I was on low paid jobs because there's no responsibility and you don't really have to think about what you do. You can just work, chat and feel you've had a bit of physical exercise.

In America it's likely even better because housing and food is so much cheaper than Europe.

But you have a choice. You can live like that if you want to but you can take more responsibility and do a paper shuffling job or you can choose to something higher paid to buy more shit. It's nothing like slavery, you move any time you want.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

housing and food costs are way up. I'd get wanting work reform and to increase wages but of course this tranny clown being discussed did not help that cause.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You want to increase wages you have to increase the value you bring to the company, there's no other way.

If you just raise wages the companies will just employ less people.

This is what happens in Europe where they have high minimum wages. Places like France and Spain rarely have unemployment rates below 10%. And it's the other workers who have to pay for their benefits.

[–]Trajan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it's for good reason that certain types of work pay less. If I could walk dogs or serve food, yet earn what I do now then it'd be no contest. Less stress and far less of my free time devoted to learning new skills for my work.

Government mandated wages are a form of price control - something that seldom delivers the results promised. Besides, most low paid work is for younger and inexperienced workers. Barring intellectual disabilities, laziness, or poor life choices, most people grow out of low income situations - if they aren't incentivised to stagnate.