The minimum wage workers around here are of two types:

1. teenage children of the upper middle class or higher

2. poor adults with a history of bad decisions

It's kind of a weird mix. Where are the children of the poor? You'd think they might want money much more than the children of better-off families do.

Surgeons, business owners, passenger jet pilots, software developers, and corporate executives all send their teenagers off to work minimum wage jobs. The point seems to be to learn about answering to a boss and/or to learn why success in school is important.