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<blockquote data-quote="OBAX" data-source="post: 1682966" data-attributes="member: 24445"><p>I also agree with a lot of those points. I do believe that there is a problem today with younger generations feeling like they should have a laborless job and start out at an elevated wage. It will be a big problem in years to come when all the plumbers and construction workers die off and there's nobody to replace them. I'm all for a kid going to college and getting an education but I think the expectation after college is the problem. We as parents are making them believe they can hire on as a CEO and make $100k plus. </p><p>It's not those kids I refer to in my previous post. There are parents and grandparents that are raising these kids that are expected to raise these kids on 20k per year and it does not work. I think that the employers will have to be diligent about weeding out the workers that want to draw a check without working, but ALL those who will work deserve to earn a living wage. I think that $15/hr gets closer to that. The disclaimer is, I could not live on that still. I have cattle! You say that it's our place to fix it, not the government. But I'd argue that the purpose of the government is to assist that process with a wide brush. We seem to want to cherry pick what we want the government gets involved in and not get involved in. That seems to be be what's causing the problem. I'll say that I'm in favor of the minimum wage hike in hopes it will help those that desperately need it, and we take more individual responsibility to keep out workers in check. </p><p>I hate to make everybody suffer because of a few bad, lazy apples. </p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏻♂️" title="Man shrugging: light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone1:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OBAX, post: 1682966, member: 24445"] I also agree with a lot of those points. I do believe that there is a problem today with younger generations feeling like they should have a laborless job and start out at an elevated wage. It will be a big problem in years to come when all the plumbers and construction workers die off and there’s nobody to replace them. I’m all for a kid going to college and getting an education but I think the expectation after college is the problem. We as parents are making them believe they can hire on as a CEO and make $100k plus. It’s not those kids I refer to in my previous post. There are parents and grandparents that are raising these kids that are expected to raise these kids on 20k per year and it does not work. I think that the employers will have to be diligent about weeding out the workers that want to draw a check without working, but ALL those who will work deserve to earn a living wage. I think that $15/hr gets closer to that. The disclaimer is, I could not live on that still. I have cattle! You say that it’s our place to fix it, not the government. But I’d argue that the purpose of the government is to assist that process with a wide brush. We seem to want to cherry pick what we want the government gets involved in and not get involved in. That seems to be be what’s causing the problem. I’ll say that I’m in favor of the minimum wage hike in hopes it will help those that desperately need it, and we take more individual responsibility to keep out workers in check. I hate to make everybody suffer because of a few bad, lazy apples. 🤷🏻♂️ [/QUOTE]
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