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People who work in food services, hospitality, or so-called “low level” jobs are often not there because of “poor life decisions” but because of the poor decisions of others and powers out of their control.
Someone who is in a low SES bracket, attends school, has a family, and works multiple “low-level” jobs is making all the best choices they can within their power and yet they still suffer. What choice did they have in their plight?
Getting to make poor life decisions in itself is a privilege. Even then, it shouldn’t be a reason for anyone to not get the chances they deserve in life. Can you honestly tell me you’ve never made a mistake in your life?
You can’t, because everyone has made mistakes, and in one way or another, we pay. But those in these “low-level” jobs pay more than their due, and that’s where the injustice lies. Name a time you made a grave mistake you were mercifully forgiven for.
Many of us living well and healthily through these crises have probably received more mercy than we deserve. We’ve made poor life decisions but never received the full extent of our “punishment” and have the privilege of leading a beautiful life anyway.
But more often than not, the forgiveness we’ve received, the blind eye that was turned away from the darkest parts of us, were NOT from OUR own doing, but from some other power we were fortunate to come across. And so we can rely on our work benefits, health insurance, etc.
But these “low-level” workers who you say are there suffering where they are because of poor-life decisions, perhaps some that even you’ve done yourself, not only pay for their mistakes but also the mistakes of others they don’t deserve to carry.
The single mom who’s barely home because she’s working multiple jobs to provide for her family may have made the mistake of having a child at an inopportune time, but many richer parents do too. Why is it that she suffers from this “poor life decision” but not the wealthy parent?
Because she has privilege, forgiveness & freedom that are given but not earned. But the struggling mother is punished much more and carries the weight of corporate greed, societal judgement and a broken social welfare system, so much that her “poor life decision” is exacerbated.
Anyway, this thread is turning into an essay. DM me and we can talk about it 1:1 
