If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation and increases in productivity, then a worker would be making 25 dollars an hour. That means if you grew up thirty, forty, fifty years ago, you were making twenty five dollars an hour to flip burgers. You didn’t have it harder.
That’s the hardest part about listening to old people dunk on my generation for our laziness. America has literally gotten worse for us and they expect us to thank them for it. I’m literally paying for their social security and floating a system which will be gone when I’m there.
They are standing on our faces and complaining that the floor is lumpy.
This thread is an example of why I don’t watch the news anymore. Anytime I start engaging politically I start talking like a guy getting indignant before HUAC