>He's 36 so that means he started at 16.
>
>It's too much shaming going on in here. We are where we at in
>life because of circumstances out of our control and some
>circumstances that we had control over. It's not for me to say
>whether or not this man and his family should be where they
>are 20 years later. However, McDonalds could do a better job
>of helping employees advance.

Know what's out of your control? That stray bullet that left you or a loved one paralyzed, that drunk driver that smashed into your ride leaving you fucked up. Shit like that is out of your control.

Pretty much everything else is squarely on you.

How you proceed in life is yours to own. Whether you get ahead, barring life altering events completely outside of your sphere of influence, is determined by how much work you're willing to put into it and what sacrifices you're willing to make.

You determine your level of success. Are you willing to do what it takes to get out of the hole or are you going to sit there and complain about it?

>It's going to be real interesting to see how society adapts to
>technology taking away some of these low wage jobs. It seems
>like corporations' response to rising minimum wages has
>technology replacing those jobs. That's quite a scary scenario
>for anyone with a child or grinding to make it. How fucked is
>it that society has reached a point where it would rather
>erase a job completely than pay someone an extra $2 to $5 an
>hour for a part-time job?

It's always been that way though. The auto industry replaced line workers with robotics and many other industries now rely heavily on industrial automation to get the jobs done that once required people. Those jobs HAVE been erased. This is why the US is no longer a manufacturing center like it was decades ago. What you're talking about is the reality we've been living in at least all of my life.

And if it's not going to a robot, it's being shipped to a third world country where human labor is dirt cheap. This is the reason you get an Indian on the phone when you call up almost any large corporation for support nowadays and why so much of our shit says "Made in China".

Face it, the world you're postulating about is the same world you live in.


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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.