re: In Louisiana, you need twice the minimum wage to afford a 2-bedroom apartment

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Obtuse1

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Minimum wage is not a career. While you can try and move around minimum wage job numbers compared with the available # of workers that could work that job, it doesn't help your argument at all.

Minimum wage is not a career. It is a job that requires the MINIMUM skill to be paid the MINIMUM wage. If you want to make more, go work somewhere that pays more. Hell, wal-mart pays more than minimum wage and those are also minimum wage type jobs. Minimum wage jobs are meant to a) gain experience b) provide jobs for high school kids or c) help someone get started in the working world. It is not meant to be a place you work your entire life. If you choose to work minimum wage jobs your whole life, then you either accept that you are unwilling to try harder than the minimum, b) you have a disability or c) you are lazy.

I worked minimum wage jobs as a kid and in college. I never, for 1 second, ever considered any of those jobs to be my career for the rest of my life. If i did, then i would be suffering from severe bouts of depression.

And, if you work for somewhere longer than a year and never get paid more than minimum wage, then you are a severe screwup and you are only being employed as a favor or to fill some quota.