Tuesday, August 27, 2013

How the Teenage Minimum Wage Worker Gets Screwed

     Let's take two people, doing the same identical job, at a fast-food place.  One is 40 years old with two kids, and the other is 19.  They both make minimum wage, or $7.25/hr.  They both live on their own and have the same usual bills as everybody else, lights, water, rent, etc..  Except the 40 year old has a family to provide for.

     The 19 year old is easy!  He makes $7.25/hr and that's it.  The 40 year old makes the same wage but gets $400/month in food stamps, $750/month in free state health-care insurance, a $7000/yr tax refund (we'll say the refund is 5k since the 40 year old paid 2k in federal taxes), WIC if he has a newborn baby, and any other welfare.  So when you average this back out.  The 40-year-old is making $15/hr while the teenager is making $7.25 for doing the same job!  Out of this $7.25 the teenager that lives on his own has to pay for his own food, health insurance, income taxes, etc..  And how is this fair?  The only answer is because the 19-year-old is young and stupid, and can't do any better workwise.

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The True Economy

How the Economy really works:

  We're taught in America that anyone can make it, as long as you work hard enough!  This is true to an extent but life also isn't fair!  There's a little more to it, than blanket statements like this.  The mainstream thinking, on the economy, makes it sound like its all based on merit.  As if whoever has the best credentials, gets the best job.  Like how the military is structured.  That everybody has a rank, and everybody starts at the bottom and works their way up.  Yes, anybody in America who studies hard enough, does whatever it takes, devotes their life to a career can make it!  Is that all worth it?  That's a different story!

  Most everybody I know got their job from their parents.  I'd say at least 80% of the people I know!  So that's not based on merit at all!  That's just the workings of a "Good ol' Boy" system!  The true economy is family business's out to benefit their own families.  If you're part of the family that owns the business, then you'll most-likely have an easy life!  You'll get the good job and the good pay whether you go to college or not.  You won't have to start out at the bottom!  You'll start right out as a manager even though other employees have been there years longer than you have.  You won't be paid your market value, like what others start out at.  You'll have a big salary on day one.  You won't have to worry about somebody stealing your job, having your pay cut, having to fight with other employees, or any of the other things non-family working people have to deal with at work.  And you'll never be fired no matter what you do!

     Now, if you're not part of a family that has a family business, then you'll be paid your market value.  This is the advantage family members have over non-family.  It doesn't mean a non-family member can't get to the top, it just means you're going to work a lot harder at it.  Where the family member will just have it handed to them.  This is one of many advantages that business owners have over employees.  A business owner can give his job to his children, no experience required!  But an employee can't give his job to his kids.  They'll have to apply and start at the bottom.  In most cases you have to know somebody in order to get a job somewhere.  Each family business is all about providing for that family!  They don't care about the employees!  They're lucky to have a job, in their eyes.  The family keeps all the money that comes in and only pays the wages they have to in order to keep you working there.  That's it!  We taught to believe that if we do a good job for our employer, the employer will take care of us by giving us raises.  That simply isn't true.  Most employers only give raises when you threaten to quit, if they want to keep you at all.

     The point is; You 1st have to access what type of family you come from.  If you come from a family that owns a business and has lots of money, then enjoy your life!  You should have no worries!  If your family or friends can't do anything for you.  Then you'll have to overcome that by getting a good education, learning a rare skill, hard work, or starting your own business.  Then your kids can live off the fruits of your labor one day!

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