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Right and so the teenager is left with no options to get a job because adults are working extremely low skill jobs. The adult has little incentive to quickly m
by crusso 14y ago
Right and so the teenager is left with no options to get a job because adults are working extremely low skill jobs. The adult has little incentive to quickly move to a higher paying job because the minimum wage has flattened out the slope of lower end jobs meaning that the manager at the McDonalds isn't making that much more than the burger flipper... so why would the adult bother making the effort?
Meanwhile, the teen gets no experience at just getting up and doing something simple like flipping burgers so wastes his time watching TV or worse. When the teen gets to be an adult, he has zero work experience so what are the only jobs he is qualified for? Minimum wage entry jobs.
The minimum wage is a vicious lie that causes inflation hurting those at the bottom end of the economic ladder while destroying entry level positions for new workers and creating inefficiencies in the trade of money for value.
- Evbn 14y agoWhat valuable skills are developed over a year of flipping burgers, that aren't taught in the most basic highschool classrooms?
- VMG 14y agoEarning money.
- crusso 14y agoIt saddens me that someone with access to a computer who reads HN like yourself either doesn't understand the value of some young adult's first job or is just being utterly obtuse. Either way, what's the point of having a conversation when basic fundamentals of life aren't even agreed upon? It's like babbling away in our own separate languages.
- pixl97 14y agoDealing with customers. Working with others. Earning a check (and the required things that go on with this). Showing up on time or getting fired (can't get fired from school, only in trouble). Also on the same note, time management and working with others (hey boss, I need off friday, I talked to jon who would take my place without causing him any overtime). I think you highly overrate what high school teaches students these days.