Yeah if they pay a living wage to everyone then high schoolers could work part time for real too which would also be better.

Florida: Let's expand the work experience program to backfill immigrant labor!

So many people believe those jobs solely exist for highschool college kids to get started in life until they 'develop skills.' I can't even imagine the lack of empathy you have to have for all those not in that position desperately trying to live.

Maybe! I have long maintained that if I ever luck into being obscenely wealthy, I will absolutely open some manner of food service or retail establishment similar to those I've worked at in the past, but not give a fuck about turning a profit and make a cornerstone of my business telling off customers for being the rude, self-centered, and entitled little shits that so many of them are. I'll consider it a much needed public service.

They are trying to get us to accept the the new American Economic Paradigm that ALL households require at least two paychecks to exist, and 3 or 4 if you want to get ahead.

Of course, employers want us to be enslaved to them for our entire schedule, so they don't like us working second jobs or side hustle.

Time for Robin Hood economics (take from the rich, give to the poor).

They dont realize that teenagers dont even have jobs anymore mostly

I cannot remember the last time I saw a high schooler working at a fast food joint.

look can we stop with the boomer crap? that is a myth and disproved so many times. lets work together instead of insulting whole generations of people we don't know

Every food service place in my area fired their under-18 staff. Apparently it was a manager fad to declare minors "too much trouble" and so the only high schoolers I see are bagging groceries or camp counselors for little kids. My kids are 15 and want to start working but the best job in town that allows them is serving dinner and doing laundry at the fancy retirement community.

That is an issue, but it's still a better world than the one in which only two of the pay bands are making ends meet rather than all three.

In the US, people we have the same problem with college degree+ level jobs being underpaid, but people without them are just impoverished for life. And some of the ones with the college degree jobs too!