I feel bad for them. As an engineer of electrical, my working time is only 2 hours then go home everyday but when the maintenance came, i have to work with my partners for 6 hours maxed then dismiss this is actually rarely time because everything stable & fine. Also my salary/pension is pretty good though, i'm happy. You wonder how many consoles i got currently below me. Hey, i'm not rich nor poor guy, i'm just an average. *thumbs up. :)

1. Inequality is so great now, i'm not sure a middle class really exists anymore. The part of the economy that made growth and a middle class really possible (industry) is mostly gone now. those that consider themselves middle class certainly are struggling alot more now than say 30 years ago. 

3. It feels like that is done to divide people but most of the stereotypes about the poor are nonsense. Sad to see that Spurge didn't know better when he did a similar job at some point. He was lucky to be able to move on. But seriously if the hardest workers got paid the most the Chinese and Indian (also other countries in that region) factory workers who slave for up to 16 hours a day making things would be the richest people in the world. That is not the case

You don't want to strive to become a something more productive like a Doctor or becoming the manager of the Company you work at? Maybe your wage should be lower to Increase Productivity.

Ok, I see where you're getting. I'll just leave the thread now.

Stop with the 50's or 60's nonese. It was very diferent back then. The people who had MW jobs back then where not kids like today. There where very few women or imigrants, cuz things where still sexist and racist. The women or black person or forener who got a job like that got payed like half as much. Not to mentioned that those jobs where not as comon as today. Before most jobs required some kind of skilled and payed more, while now that the middle class is disapering its more MW jobs by thousands more, and there are more unqualified people in the job market. Back then one family menber got that one job to suport a family, now its not consider for a family provider that job, and both parents can suport a family with MW, althou a small family, but these people canot be having so many children if they cant aford it.

Doctor & manager of the company. No way, those are require high responsiblity, they're tough, so no... i don't want to. I'm fine with my salary/pension over three thousands of dollars plus bonus houndreds of dollars.

By the way, becoming as a doctor or manager gets lower pension than engineer of electrical. It depends on government of country(I'm not USA).

This is true. But seeing as todays rich people tend to be heartles bastards, they know this will happen, so tehy still increase the prices on everithing so they still get even more money and opresse the poor even more to the point that the situation is almost the same as how it is now. If the goverment also raises the MW, they have to do something about shop owners and service providers to not increase the cost of living ass well, or else all it will do is inflate the dollar and people will be right back where they started.

I know it goes against the land of the free, but to much freedom has caused theese less then 10% of the population to control more than 95% of the wealth. Most of theese big companies even outsorce the industry work out the contry to exploit the third world countrys, and causing the the middle class to disapear. Thats something that the goverment has to put an end to.

And engineer of electrical, water & oil are the highest duty in my country. Simple... without electrcity, people will die.

And don't forget he's a christian. Oh the irony.

Im somewhat of a cristians, and we are not suposted to do stupid things even if they sound good or we pitty people. Raising MW will do more harm than good.