Ah, the good old days when workers used to be the property of the factory owner ... how we all miss these times ...
"WE" ? You were not even born yet nor did you live in America during that era. lol
the few jobs that can sustain a whole family will be so scarce that people will do pretty much anything their employers demand.
Horrors ! to think an employee take orders from his/her boss........unheard of.
What I said is that employers will be able to lower wage levels significantly because people will compete for the few remaining jobs.
No, no you did not.
What you said was:
people will do pretty much anything their employers demand.
Minimum wage doesn't cut it,
Unless you "deposit" your kids at a daycare center that is
Is that affordable for a minimum wage worker ?
No it is not as a day care is not in their budget so either a relative or friend will have to step up to help out.
(If you can't feed them then don't breed them)
and both you and your wife are willing to work two jobs
And if two jobs each isn't enough get a third one.
Do you have even the slightest idea what being a working poor really means in this country?
Yes I do wiz bang as I had NOTHING when I finished college (that I paid for myself without taking out a loan or borrowing a penny from my parents or was I EVER on any government assistance or subsides). It can be done.
I know what sacrificing is, I know what hard work is, I know what making good choices are.
Like Pol said, the kids today have been conditioned to wanting it new and wanting it now.
Babies are expensive and when you have a couple when you are only making minimum wage is not making a very good choice is it.
In fact you have little to no chance of ever getting ahead until the kids are gone.
But no, we want three kids, two dogs, a new car, a plush apartment, cable t.v., eat out at restaurants four nights a week on our minimum wage jobs so we can keep up with the Joneses.
Reality check ! We can't all be winners, we all aren't smart enough to have six figure jobs, we all aren't blessed with unlimited resources to live a life like we would like to be accustomed to because a minimum wage job does not allow that. duh !
Why aren't schools and parents teaching kids frugality, sensible spending and saving up for things rather than taking out loans to have it immediately.
Because Pol, this generation has been brought up with IMMEDIATE gratification.
When they hear the word "work" they immediately think "Mexican."
Do you have any idea how many 18 year olds have gone on mental disability in this country so they don't have to work, get a disability social security check and medicare health insurance free ?
This generation of over protective helicopter moms that hover over their kids have handi capped them by enabling them helpless.
Then when they get their first minimum wage job that isn't even enough to pay their monthly cell phone bill they start talking like TheOther.
Do you have even the slightest idea what being a working poor really means in this country?
LOL, yes, yes I do and I knew the day of reckoning wasn't far off.
President Trump will be cutting off these freebie programs and make it so if you don't want to work then don't eat.
John Wayne said it best, "Life is hard enough......and when you are dumb it is even harder."
Kids today are coming out of high school today and literally can not read or write or add and subtract, have tattoo's plastered all over them, buttons in their lips, pink hair and have their face stuck in their cell phones yet they want a job that pays $40 an hour. LOL
Sound like you are one of them TheOther with the pity party you are trying to grease us with.