My question, with regards to the janitors and fast food workers and other "low wage" jobs where people have "no desire to improve their lot in life."
1) Have you ever done these jobs? Do you have any idea the incredible amount of hard work that those jobs involve? Do you grasp how people such as yourself make life miserable for people who are working those jobs?
2) Do you like to have clean buildings and public places to go? Do you like to eat in restaurants and go to movies? If those people with "no desire to improve their lot in life" suddenly got high-paying executive jobs, you would have no one to clean up after you, you would have no one to serve your food or wash the dishes afterward. You would have no one to drive your Uber or taxi.
Your life is made better by those low wage workers, your way of life depends on their doing menial work that you have no desire to do. That work is just as necessary--if not more so--than the work of pencil pushers in cubicles all over North America and the globe. Just because you devalue their work does not mean that it is not incredibly taxing and tiring.
And finally:
3) Do you support raising the minimum wage? Limiting how high CEO/Executive compensation can be placed? Limiting how much bonus money executives can earn?
Because if you don't want your taxes going to those who "have no desire to improve their lot in life," an easy way to get those people out of poverty and off of public assistance is to ensure that they are making fair wages for the work they do. There are people working 50-60 hours a week for peanuts, just to survive. Are those people lazy? Don't they deserve the dignity of the ability to own a home, feed their children?
The view is incredibly elitist and appalling, and until you're willing to cook all your own meals and clean all of your own buildings, grow your own food, work on your own car--those jobs are essential to the North American way of life, and people need to start respecting others as human beings.
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