Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Poor people have no clue what they are worth. They also tend to do very little to increase their value to employers beyond bitch and complain.

The market determines your value... end of story. When you have skills, knowledge, a great attitude and you're willing to go above and beyond, your value goes up.

If you are getting $7.00 an hour, its not because you bring $30.00 per hour of value to a business.. its because any chimpanzee can do your job. Until you educate yourself, out-work, out-learn and out-try everyone around you... you have little value.

When i was 19 years old, I moved to Kodiak, Alaska. I got a job at a fishing related company (selling nets and supplies, repairing fishing gear (mostly bottom and midwater trawls) and so on). I busted my ass. I made little money... but when someone needed something, i ran. When someone asked me to carry something... i grabbed 4 when others grabbed 1. When someone needed help, i stayed late. I went above and beyond in everything. I started working on the fishing gear (which is kinda complex) and tried to learn everything I could. I tried to become knowledgeable in everything. I tried to become very good at repairs to complex midwater trawls. I learned everything i could. Everything. I never stopped trying to learn and understand.

With that, doors started opening. With that, people started coming to me offering me jobs on very nice trawlers. Jobs that paid 10-20-30k per month. When i got great jobs, i stepped up my game. When we hadn't slept for 3 days, i was the only one smiling. When we hadn't ate for 12 hrs, I was out-working everyone around me. When someone needed to stay longer in the middle of the Bering Sea in February, i always volunteered. When anyone needed anything, i was there and trying twice as hard as anyone else. When we weren't fishing, I was busy working full time for huge net companies that modified/repaired bottom and midwater trawls for the biggests and most successful boats in the Bering Sea fleet.

With that, every door possible was open to me. Everyone knew me. I knew everyone. Everyone knew I worked hard. I had job offers non stop. I worked many years making 150-250 k a year with no education at all.

SO FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WITH A BULLSHIT IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE OWED. YOU ARE OWED NOTHING. YOUR VALUE IS NOT DETERMINED BY YOUR OWN SUBJECTIVE SENSE OF SELF ENTITLEMENT. YOUR VALUE IS EXACTLY THAT... WHAT YOU ARE WORTH. IF YOU ARE MAKING $8.00 AN HOUR... IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON WITH NO PLAN. IF YOU THINK GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO FIX THAT FOR YOU, I PRAY TO GOD YOU GET YOUR NUTS CRUSHED IN A VICE SO I DON'T HAVE TO SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR WORTHLESS FUCKING KIDS WHO WILL LIKELY END UP IN PRISON ANYWAY.

That is all.

Shut the fuck up and start bettering yourself. Be the best at everything you do, be the best person you can be... strive for excellence and doors will always open for you. Sit around and bitch and whine and doors will never open for you. Welcome to life. It's cruel. But its far more fair, than unfair.