People on minimum wage can't buy a house

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Not actually true. Those jobs were never intended "for kids". That is a concept that didn't come about until the fifties or so, when teens started actually taking part time jobs for extra cash. Somehow, the idea that those jobs were there FOR kids got cemented into society due to the number of afternoon and weekend jobs teens started working.

So things have changed, what else is new?
Nowadays those jobs for kids and people who don't want to or can't find anything else. As I said two statements are not mutually exclusive.

Also, anyone expecting to have a cushy life by working in a McDonalds is an idiot by default or have not life experience.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Minimum wage means less than $20,000 a year. There is no place you can live on less than $20,000 a year around here.

Good. Work harder. Or find roommates or rent a room somewhere you can be miserable in for a while until you can crawl out of it into something better. It's a pretty good incentive. That's what I did. I even rented a room in a motel for like a year and it was killing me.