Christine
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Not the person you were asking and I think this is probably derailing the thread, lol, but I'm pushing 60 years old. During my early working years, I worked a LOT of minimum wage jobs well back when things were much more affordable. Even back then, there was no way that I was affording to live independently on that wage. Even when my wage improved a bit, I still couldn't do it unless I had roommates.Someone has to staff the day shift, when teens are in school. These are often people who aren't college material for a variety of reasons. They aren't capable of getting a college degree to better themselves. They may also not be in a situation where a spouse working makes their job extra income.
They may not be capable of improving their life, but they can do the job they have. Are you saying some people should have to work two or three jobs for their entire adult life to pay the bills, because they don't have the intellect or opportunity to get a better job? I don't think any of us would want to do that. I can't imagine why anyone would support someone else having to do that in order to survive.
I don't pretent to know the answer to this because there are those people who really can't do more than simplistic types of tasks, but it's hard to pay a person who, say works the counter at a dry cleaners (that was one of my jobs), the $40,000 a year it would take in my area to get them in an apartment with a roommate. It would make most small businesses unsustainable.