>On the bright side, they own/will own homes and don't live their entire lives around work. Also on the downside, these wages make it impossible to ever really

>On the bright side, they own/will own homes and don't live their entire lives around work. Also on the downside, these wages make it impossible to ever really retire. You can't save for retirement if you area barely making ends meet. I don't know anyone working a low wage job that looks forward to doing the same job until they die.