I had this argument with a former roommate (who happens to be getting a doctorate in education at UC berkeley hippy land).
now i'm an immigrant. my parents had very little when they came here. my dad worked at a chinese restaurant, and repairing vcrs after he took night classes etc. these were not "good" jobs.
i make pretty good money at this point and my father worked his way up to being a C level exec, so I get the "you are rich you don't know what poor is like" garbage from liberals, when i grew up probably worse than they did. i guess i love trolling liberals types, since i'm the "model minority".
so what i don't get is all the talk of the "living wage" for say a mcdonalds or walmart employee. i worked a few summer jobs in manufacturing when i was in high school / college which were much more difficult than say walmart for minimum wage. i always thought hey this job is awful, best to get some real job skills so as to never have to do this for a living permanently. so that is usually my argument against the liberal types.
but what galls me even more and probably kills them is. why are you hating on walmart in particular? most of these are the douchey iphone starbucks types (same idiots on their iphones who were camping out at occupy wallstreet while i was working a real job) i mean every retail place has basically the same benefits / pay. and the worst part is why do they love amazon? thats the part i dont get the most! amazon basically eliminates retail jobs entirely and their distribution centers are just as bad as working at walmart, just with even less manpower.
i mean i'm 32 probably the generation the boomers think is totally entitled and screwed up, but the older i get the more i am disgusted at the vast majority of people my age (or maybe just people in general, there are an awful lot of worthless people out there).
now i'm an immigrant. my parents had very little when they came here. my dad worked at a chinese restaurant, and repairing vcrs after he took night classes etc. these were not "good" jobs.
i make pretty good money at this point and my father worked his way up to being a C level exec, so I get the "you are rich you don't know what poor is like" garbage from liberals, when i grew up probably worse than they did. i guess i love trolling liberals types, since i'm the "model minority".
so what i don't get is all the talk of the "living wage" for say a mcdonalds or walmart employee. i worked a few summer jobs in manufacturing when i was in high school / college which were much more difficult than say walmart for minimum wage. i always thought hey this job is awful, best to get some real job skills so as to never have to do this for a living permanently. so that is usually my argument against the liberal types.
but what galls me even more and probably kills them is. why are you hating on walmart in particular? most of these are the douchey iphone starbucks types (same idiots on their iphones who were camping out at occupy wallstreet while i was working a real job) i mean every retail place has basically the same benefits / pay. and the worst part is why do they love amazon? thats the part i dont get the most! amazon basically eliminates retail jobs entirely and their distribution centers are just as bad as working at walmart, just with even less manpower.
i mean i'm 32 probably the generation the boomers think is totally entitled and screwed up, but the older i get the more i am disgusted at the vast majority of people my age (or maybe just people in general, there are an awful lot of worthless people out there).
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