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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
When more jobs became minimum wage jobs to compensate for more money going to top executives and increasing costs of post-secondary education.
We already know people born poor are more likely to stay poor and that "the American dream" was largely a fantasy.
People are convinced there is some worthiness in what they do. That because they get paid more, they're more valuable than people who are paid less. But it's a lie. Anyone can be an accountant or a middle-manager. It doesn't make anyone any more special, or smarter, or more worthy of living than someone working fast food.
A better question is why some people are making enough money to solve things like homelessness by themselves while others are working full-time for a salary they can't live on?
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I agree with all of this. Is this the academic class trap that people have fallen into. Raising the minimum wage doesn't solve this issue or the chase for degrees. I find this a problem on the left, measuring success by the number of degrees. How many women, blacks, latinos etc are in STEM?
I will disagree with you on the bolded part, the American Dream. It still exists in cities and with immigrants. The amount of immigrants succeeding and sending money back to their home country is staggering.
As an example, overseas Vietnamese send 15 billion US per year back to Vietnam. And they are only the 8th highest. I believe India and Mexico are first and second.
https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/new...nam-rise.html/
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The major sources of remittances to Vietnam are Vietnamese export workers and overseas Vietnamese living in other countries. The US accounts for 60 percent of all the remittances sent to Vietnam, while 20 percent are sent from Europe. Other major sources include China, South Korea, and Japan.
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