| spurgeonryan said: They can still work hard like everyone else does. Right? Why even work hard if it is just going to be given to you? |
Working at a minimum wage job there's rarely a chance to advance. Let's say a few people have worked at Walmart for one, two, five years, etc. A position opened up and you were promoted to a management position, but there's no other positions available. The others have to wait until a position is available to advance further in the company. You can't go any higher unless the store manager or HR of that store were to get moved to a different store or quit, and who knows if another might be transferred in or not. Take the same thing with the fast food industry but there's going to be one store manager and two managers.
In addition to all that. People working at a Walmart, McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc, may be working at those locations for atleast 5-10 years before they get $1 more than they started with. During that time a lot can happen. You might get a supervisor who starts putting you on shifts that you can't work with because of the things going on in your life, or a supervisor who just doesn't like you and goes out of their way to make your work more difficult or even fire you for no reason. You might even be laid off by a company that wants to hire new employees at minimum wage. Some states are right to work states where you can be fired and the employer doesn't have to give a reason. Right to work states really mean you have no job securuity. Or what about people who are just getting out of school and want to start some sort of carreer while they're going to college or maybe these people aren't going to go to college? Or people who have a degree in one area of expertise but there's no work available or those locatioins may not be hiring at the time?
There could be any number of legitimate reasons why someone no longer has a job and has to start back out at a minimum wage job because they can't find other work.
Working at an $8 minimum wage full time you'll probably get $1100 after taxes a month. Months with five weeks you'll get more. Where I live in Florida, a single bedroom apartment is $650. $200 for food, $200 for utilities, and $50 for gas. You could live off $1100 a month with absolutely no entertainment. You almost can't even live off of minimum wage.
