07-22-2015, 12:49 PM
(07-22-2015, 12:15 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Anyway, the point being that while there are exceptions, by and large, if you're making minimum wage and you're not a teenager or a retiree, then that's generally your own fault for the decisions you made in life.
Even if every person worked as hard as he could there would still be the same percentage of jobs that would pay minimum wage.
That is the way the system works. That is the truth that some people try to hide. It is impossible for everyone to have a high paying job no matter how hard everyone works. the system is set up so that a large portion of the workers will get low pay. The wealthy elite try to blame poverty on laziness, but in fact the system is to blame. When they are asked to pay higher wages because the system is not fair they start the propaganda machine pumping out the lie that if everyone worked hard then everyone would have a high paying job. That just is not true. In fact it is impossible under our current system.
