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I'm not surprised that this could happen. I'm surprised that it has happened. The fact that anyone could have a great life with mostly any job in the US is what
by nilkn 12y ago
I'm not surprised that this could happen. I'm surprised that it has happened. The fact that anyone could have a great life with mostly any job in the US is what catapulted it to fame in the mid to late 1900s as the world's richest country.
Now we're back to the point where minimum wage jobs are poverty level at best and significantly below poverty at worst.
To really put this into perspective, I know families who have immigrated here from Mexico who actually regret it because they didn't realize how low the standard of living is for minimum wage jobs.
- Xixi 12y agoNote that I was only pointing out that there is some logic to the lowest paying jobs seeing the most candidates. I certainly do not condone a system where workers do not have access to proper health-care and struggle to live decently. For that matter I think that even unemployed people should have access to health-care and live decently. I will refrain from commenting on how tragic the situation is in the United States for the simple reason that I don't live there. But your description of the situation doesn't make me want to move there except for a very cushy job. Here in Japan unemployment is quite low, and health-care is nationalized, so the situation may not be as dramatic as the one you describe. But contractors at low paying jobs certainly hold the shitty end of the stick: all my friends in this situation live with their parents, they simply cannot afford to live alone.