You have no way of knowing if a person chose the job they work or not. That is sure arrogance. I have worked numerous jobs that I hated because at the time that was the only job I could get. I have known too many people with College Degrees, including myself, who have had to work “low end” jobs that are not even related to their fields of interest and study because of lay-offs, mergers, company by-out and jobs being sent overseas. These people include "Geophysical Engineers, Nurses (who by the way make lousy money for what they do), Biologists (myself and friends), and Chemists.
All too many “jobs” depend on bogus requirements and “who you know” and “who’s fanny” you will (guess??) Too many jobs are granted to people simply because they have a degree and have managed to buy their way up. For everybody’s cry babying about unskilled laborers I bet you like that service when you want to eat out, take a break and have to use the company potty, wet the bed in a hospital, want that cash out of the bank (don’t fool yourself tellers get squat for what they do…been there did it), or need to pay for the groceries you just shoved in your cart.
No Christian should find another person’s job as menial and beneath them. I think it would be good for all of us (have done it) to work two or three jobs. You can keep you fancy high end position, but go ahead and add that part-time hamburger swinging job, toilet scrubber to keep you humble. Then give that money to the poor.
Again, you perpetuate this false notion that anyone who isn;t mired in poverty now as we type was someone handed a silver spoon like Ricky Schroeder and didn’t have to work an ounce.
Not only is this statistically not true, but you don’t know squat about anyone you are talking to, and sound ignorant when you continue to act as you do. Neither do you know anything about the profit margins for these companies you keep discussing. My first job was a cashier at Hardees. Then I shoveled mulch and planted trees at a nursery for two years - the physically hardest job I’ve ever had. Now, I run a small business in engineering. For college, I was too poor to pay my way, so it was scholarships, or loans, or work part time. I busted my hump to avoid loans.
Point being, some people’s circumstances are better or worse than others, and we need to treat each person as the good Samaritan would. We also need treat each person fairly and pay them what their efforts are worth.
AGAIN, a payment for services rendered was historically always based on what a person valued the service at, not how many bills the performer had to pay. That isn’t financially tenable in a closed system of finance with finite cash flow.
I do not know whether salaries are fair, though it is something I’d consider, since these people are my sisters and brothers. I’d also ask why so many people today are trying to raise families and love adult lives on jobs that historically were never intended for that. There are many reasons for that. A stagnant economy. Lax immigration enforcement that creates a workers surplus for unskilled work. Out of wedlock births, and a rise in divorce.
I am not going to simply entertain a “you have to double our wages” approach until we work on each of the other root problems too. But good luck proposing that; I’d love to see a focus on the perils of out of wedlock children and premarital sex, but the same powers that demand higher wages won’t allow for you to educate the masses on their own personal responsibility.
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