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Old 08-31-2012, 12:03 PM   #56
Slava
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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
Sure, but if you're in a situation where you must work two crap minimum wage jobs just so you can provide the necessities of life to your family, how do you break free of that rut? "Get a higher education so you can join the middle class" is sound advice to a teenager, but it isn't realistic to someone already working ~80 hours per week at low-paying jobs just to pay the rent and feed the kids.
I suppose that is fair, but there was also a point where these people made some ill-advised choices one way or the other. I don't have all of the answers, but I think that the number of people working 80 hours a week and not having any other way to make ends meet is pretty low.
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