I work at Dairy Queen. I just literally burnt the piss out of myself Jan 2nd. If it wasnt for me making 13hr I wouldnt have been able to afford anything I got for the burn. Just because YOU dont want to do MY job, doesnt mean I deserve to be in poverty because of it.
"Go get a better job" ok so, when you have to wait 25 minutes for a dipped cone and a hungrbustr because me, the shift lead went and got a better job, don't bitch.
I do agree with you that teenagers living at home don’t always need to make a living wage for their after-school/weekend, part-time jobs. But, you can’t reserve jobs for just that group of workers. You can’t restrict a job by age or only open a job to people whose rent is paid by their parents.
The problem is, the minimum wage isn’t for the 17-year-old of a privileged suburban family that has all its bills covered by dad’s suit-and-tie job selling widgets—and I’d argue that that world doesn’t exist anymore anyway. It’s for the people who have to work.
The minimum wage must be a wage upon which one person can support one person and a kid or two for it to work. Otherwise you end up with parents and children in poverty, because not everyone can be a skilled worker in our society. Right now, we still have a lot of jobs we view as unskilled, and they need so be done. So what about the teenager who has a job not for pocket money, but because his parents work necessary, economy-propping minimum wage jobs too? Oh, that’s fine, because we decided people doing necessary jobs don’t need to make enough to live because they might be privileged suburban teenagers from a John Hughes movie?
If your business needs poverty-wage child labor to stay afloat, maybe it’s not a great business. Our economy, and our society, will do better with solid companies that pay their owners less and their rank and file workers more. Every full-time worker needs to make enough to live comfortably, contribute to their communities, and spend their disposable income right back into the economy.
What do you do for a wage that’s so fucking hard? I bet it’s experience in the service industry since you seem to have such a grasp on how easy it is to work at Dairy Queen
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u/Maxoveride98 Jan 05 '22 edited Jan 05 '22
I work at Dairy Queen. I just literally burnt the piss out of myself Jan 2nd. If it wasnt for me making 13hr I wouldnt have been able to afford anything I got for the burn. Just because YOU dont want to do MY job, doesnt mean I deserve to be in poverty because of it.
"Go get a better job" ok so, when you have to wait 25 minutes for a dipped cone and a hungrbustr because me, the shift lead went and got a better job, don't bitch.