From age 15-21 i worked min wage jobs(sometimes 2 at a time), while going to trade school. I built my resume up and got hired at AT&T
min wage, 17 years ago, was $6.25 when I started at Jack in The Box at 15. Jack In The Box is now offering $17.50 /hr here to get employees.
whats the inflation on $6.25/hr in 2004 to now? I can almost guarantee its not $17.50/hr.
its not a hourly issue. The goal posts will always be moved. Amazon offers $20-25/hr to start here. Still cant fill jobs.
its that with social media, kids dont want to work.
I said if it matched Americas productivity in that time. Not a 1 to 1 inflation comparison on the wage #. It's more complicated than a 1 to 1 comparison. Productivity and cost of living are major factors.
Notice when it started going the other way? Boomers have fukked America up by being the spoiled brat fukk everyone else generation. Oddly enough they try to put that on todays kids, who have to suffer through 100x the financial hardships they had too.
MINE MINE MINE has been their mantra. They don't even care what the world is like for their own grandkids.
The fact remains that 75% of these jobs are NOT staffed by teenagers.
This is the free market right? If people don't want to do the job for what they are currently offering, then clearly it is not enough to attract workers.
How else do we reverse this incredible disparity that has developed since the boomers got in charge?
These 'lazy teens' got the cheap labor industry by the balls right now, good for them.