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How dare she complain about the meager scraps she's been thrown. The nerve! If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice. You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage when there are so many desperate people who will take her place after all. That would be unamerican! AmIRight?

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> You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage

Some jobs pay more than others. Some jobs pay less than others. Unless you are arguing for completely equal pay then some people are going to have jobs that pay less than other people.

There have been times in the US when fewer people got paid shit wages than do at present. This isn't economically inevitable.

Unskilled phone-answerers have always made shit wages.

I see a lot of people in this thread suggesting (or at least hinting) that there was some mythical Golden Age in which a telephone jockey got paid something other than the tiniest pittance allowed by law and/or market forces.

That... is not the case.

I doubt that the wages of unskilled phone-answerers have stayed constant with respect to the cost of living over the past few decades.

"If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice"

Nice straw man.

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