re: #69 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

This says everything I need to know about the person:

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When the minimum wage was the equivalent of what 18-22 an hour is now, how did those small business deal with it back then?

To be fair, back when the minimum wage carried that sort of buying power, it really was limited mostly to teenagers and people in-between full-time blue collar jobs. Back when most of these jackholes started working as teens, minimum wage was what you got for summer jobs or the jobs you worked to pay for college tuition and related costs until you graduated.

The expectation was that, once you got out into “the real world,” high school grads would go into the blue collar workforce and college grads into the white collar one, where you’d make enough to cover your own expenses and have enough to start thinking about things like raising a family.

The biggest issue in this country standing in the way of a higher minimum wage? A refusal to accept the reality that the 21st century workforce is not the 20th century one. You can’t get a job on the line at the local factory straight out of high school because your dad is drinking buddies with the shop foreman and start out making enough (when you factor in benefits) to raise a family.