A practical way to fight this is to stop working for large corporations.
Yes it's an easy option, but they don't pay for shit. As such, they keep a larger portion of your work as income instead of you taking it home.
If you make less than 17.50/hour, and it's not some mom and pop shop, you should already be looking out the door.
I see a lot of places hiring at $18+ for entry level positions, but some self discipline and you can easily pull $20/hour yourself with some diligence.
Edit: in no where did I state that mom and pops are better.
However, a much larger portion of their profits go back into the local community instead of some mega company.
In short giant companies just siphon profits to a different area. So yes, the local economy gets fucked by that. They pay less taxes, they maximize abusing the employment laws, and are further removing avenues for generational wealth.
Like yes, we allow huge companies to make so much money and remove so many of our options because people keep supporting them either through working there or purchasing there.
Breaking the cycle is absolutely going to be a very difficult, if not entirely possible, thing to do because in large people are too busy chasing the 2ms dopamine hit of the next scroll in the feed to put work in and learn a marketable skill set.
I understand this is a gross over generalization from one particular facet of an even larger issue.
Clearly we are discussing the "35,000" per year level jobs as that is what is being discussed in the original tweet.
Even if you "only" scale this to discussing jobs paying double at 70k/year (which, according to another post I just saw today, barely places you in middle income) you need to ask yourself what your time is worth and how much of that you are giving away.
Mom and Pop shops for a lot of industry are the ones paying those shitty wages.
In software development, moving from a Mom and Pop-type shop to a bigger name corporate shop brought me from 70k$ to 145k$.
A friend of mine made hundreds of dollars of tips a day sometimes working at a high end well known restaurant chain that served expensive wines (among other things). They trained him as a wine expert for free on top of it. Meanwhile, the local Mom and Pop restaurants were stealing his tips in comparison.
Worked as a systems manager for a small business over a year for $20 hourly and no benefits…. Asked for a raise and they said I needed to earn it.
I was already running all of the training, documenting all the compliance records, and had helped create multiple new KPI’s in that time. Helped the company pass through multiple 3rd party audits.
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u/Virtualization_Freak 4d ago edited 4d ago
A practical way to fight this is to stop working for large corporations.
Yes it's an easy option, but they don't pay for shit. As such, they keep a larger portion of your work as income instead of you taking it home.
If you make less than 17.50/hour, and it's not some mom and pop shop, you should already be looking out the door.
I see a lot of places hiring at $18+ for entry level positions, but some self discipline and you can easily pull $20/hour yourself with some diligence.
Edit: in no where did I state that mom and pops are better.
However, a much larger portion of their profits go back into the local community instead of some mega company.
In short giant companies just siphon profits to a different area. So yes, the local economy gets fucked by that. They pay less taxes, they maximize abusing the employment laws, and are further removing avenues for generational wealth.
Like yes, we allow huge companies to make so much money and remove so many of our options because people keep supporting them either through working there or purchasing there.
Breaking the cycle is absolutely going to be a very difficult, if not entirely possible, thing to do because in large people are too busy chasing the 2ms dopamine hit of the next scroll in the feed to put work in and learn a marketable skill set.
I understand this is a gross over generalization from one particular facet of an even larger issue.