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Originally Posted by Rochard
The McDonald's by us installed the self serving kiosks and then cut down the amount of people on a cash register to one.
People fail to understand the concept of minimum wage. You cannot live off of minimum wage; It is not meant to support someone. It's meant to say "you are at the very bottom and you need to do better". When I got out of the Marines I worked four jobs to make ends meet, and I live in a two bedroom apartment with my girlfriend and her friend.
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The minimum wage in Australia is $18 an hour and they're doing great.
It's absurd to think that an unskilled worker in America can work multiple minimum wage jobs now @ even 105 hours a week and still not be able to afford rent, transportation & food, but that's where a lot of America is at now, the working poor as corporations make record profits and increase wages an average of 2% a year, as rent increases 10% a year, food 3% a year, gas is up 20%, the list goes on.
I worked 3 jobs in high school at the same time to support myself and I had to rent a room from an old lady. After graduating I could afford my own studio but no money for a car. It's even worse for minimum wage workers nowdays they qualify for public assistance working full time, that's a result of the business world being greedy and lobbying for the government to foot the bill instead of paying fair wages.
When I lived in Australia everyone I knew owned a home & a rental property and most owned a boat. The waitress at the shithole cafe made $25 and hour plus tips and just bought her first condo.