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Motivation in this thread you mean? Or in general? This thread is a pretty good discussion, albeit fierce, about the minimum wage debate. There's a pretty big split in our country over this too, although I think a plurality agree with me & want it raised.Sounds like you are doing just fine. So what's your motivation here, to help others?
My overall message which I express in my writing is to warn young people about this life model. It's dangerous and not for everyone, yet it seems to be the one and only path drawn up for young people who are just about ready to leave the nest. They're never told to take their skills and ideas and take a chance starting a business or hell, to take a year to travel the world and learn to survive remotely. This is extremely common in other cultures because I've talked to these people. I'm calling for anything different from the 9-5 status quo for those who don't want it.
The 9-5 slave wage lifestyle is the stuff of a vicious cycle. Yes, low skilled workers get depressed about long hours for low pay. They get discouraged, addicted, and lose any basic skills they might have been able to capitalize on. They give up. I'm not encouraging people to stop working and live on welfare, but I'm telling them if they're going to be an employee, to narrow down the path and find something they love to do if they're going to do it 40 hours a week. And don't just get a bull**** degree because it's what everyone else is doing.
To be honest, even had I not been laid off I would have left that 50k job within another 6 months. I wasn't happy. I was selling gullible people garbage they didn't need, and allocating 11 hours a day to the company through unpaid lunches and commuting, despite only being paid for 8. I remember working a day shift after a night shift at least once a week. They were monopolizing 22+ hrs out of 36 in a 1.5 day period.
There has to be another way.
Anyway, truly sorry again if that "stuck in the middle class" bit came off the wrong way before. It came out uglier than it should have. There are 1 or 2 people who I seem to inevitably trade ad hominem attacks with, but you're not one of them.
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