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Somehow, about 25 years ago, someone decided that EVERY single starter gig or McJob out there should allow the worker to have a “livable wage” and be able to fully support themselves on five 8-hour shifts without any other extra hours, revenue streams or second jobs.
Never before in history did we expect every single job to provide someone complete self-sufficiency working just five 8-hour shifts. There have always been starter jobs (paper routes, stuffing envelopes, working fast food crew member jobs, etc) where if you had some kind of hard luck story and HAD to support yourself or a family, you knew you might work the drive-thru at McDonald’s five mornings a week, but you were also gonna have to cut grass or deliver pizzas in the evenings to make ends meet.
But noooo, someone started preaching that every single McJob should be able to be fully self-sufficient and have nice things on that McIob alone and never have to have side gigs or overtime to make ends meet a d it was as ridiculous then as it is now, but it’s seeped into the societal consciousness so much that we just accept it as fact.
Never before in history did we expect every single job to provide someone complete self-sufficiency working just five 8-hour shifts. There have always been starter jobs (paper routes, stuffing envelopes, working fast food crew member jobs, etc) where if you had some kind of hard luck story and HAD to support yourself or a family, you knew you might work the drive-thru at McDonald’s five mornings a week, but you were also gonna have to cut grass or deliver pizzas in the evenings to make ends meet.
But noooo, someone started preaching that every single McJob should be able to be fully self-sufficient and have nice things on that McIob alone and never have to have side gigs or overtime to make ends meet a d it was as ridiculous then as it is now, but it’s seeped into the societal consciousness so much that we just accept it as fact.
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