You probably have to keep attempting to explain it to people because those people are too busy thinking about what a condescending shithead you are as you’re talking.

Spoken like a true effing asshole. I hope you and your loved ones personally experience the indignity that free-market assholes like you create with your "a man's life is only as valuable as the lowest common denominator dictates" scumbaggery.

If the majority of fast-food workers were teenagers, working their way through high-school and then moving on - we wouldn’t be having this discussion. But the reality is that the majority of fast-food workers are in their 30s, women, and often with child(ren) to take care of. Bad career move, circumstance or darwinism…

Listen kids, in case you didn’t go to school:

“It is a stepping stone to get your feet in business, not a career move for those that made bad decisions in life.”

ALL jobs are supposed to let you live. Thats why the federal minimum wage was created! Most people WANT to be the victorian hand carved chair but you got the industry saying you cant make chairs out of certain woods.

proof/deets/etc on why a “non-management job” was never meant to provide a living rage. this is an intentional typo i’m keeping btw. also your proof doesnt exist and that idea that “oh it’s a stepping stone its meant that way!” is sooooo dumb. certain groups of people are pushed into low paying jobs and the idea that…

“tough shit, should’ve made the right choices”.

Lol wait how are we ranking the skills needed and labor exerted at various jobs?

Lol why would there be a society with jobs that are only meant to be transitory? How is that sustainable?

The reason that so many more adults have to work in fast food now is not because they all made bad decisions, but because the economy has shifted from industry to service. Working in a coal mine or a factory never took more experience or effort or hours than working in fast food does, but you used to be able to get a…

Haha. Yeah, no. It was rather quickly determined that he wouldn’t be a “good fit.”

I’ve had to tell people that The Wire is not a documentary. I had to explain to friends (I work in a major corporation that has tons of expensively educated people) about things like lynching, segregation and Britain’s role in the slave trade.

Detroiter here. I have many of the same feelings as you. Shame (the Kwame years, the still abandoned Michigan Central Station, the ugly state of the city’s public transportation, etc..), frustration (City Council’s seeming inability to do anything of substance, the Illitch takeover of downtown), pride (the vast amount…

A little story along those same lines...I am from Detroit. When I was in college I worked in an academic department at my university (Wayne State in the city’s midtown). Naturally, prospective professorial hires would come into town to interview and one of the tenured professors would usually pick up the interviewee…

That would explain why she can’t spell Grosse Pointe, and thinks it has scenery.

It’s not too PC, and you can let your hair down and talk about whatever you want. It’s also very wealthy, which means the people are very smart, so you are never far from an interesting person.

I lived in Detroit briefly in 1998 when I was in AmeriCorps. When people ask me what it was like, I always say that, while I’d never lived anywhere so in distress and with so much to do to make it a healthier, safer place, I also have never met people more committed to seeing their city thrive. I gained lifelong…

‘It’s also very wealthy, which means the people are very smart.’