• morgan423@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The $15.50 guy would have some people lined up. It’d be appealing for people who needed a job short term, quickly, and wanted the decreased competition for it.

    Not a bunch of people would be lined up there, but it wouldn’t be no one.

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      1 year ago

      Depends on the job. We have labor positions that pay $18, but demand a little bit of physical labor. It’s hard to fill those positions.

      10 years ago, people would line up for that job for less than $10/hr and the work was much, much harder. Something has definitely changed

      When I started with the company in 09, people were coming in during outages and trying to outperform each other so they’d be hired on full-time. But the economy was ass back then and it was hard to find a full-time job at my age

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        Expenses have changed.

        My apartment I paid $700/month for in 2011 is now over $2000/month.

        When ex to expenses outpace wages more than 2:1, eventually it catches up and people can’t afford to live where the work is.

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          Makes sense. Same in my area. I wonder if this isn’t all going to blow up and cause another recession soon. Seems like this shit can’t be like this for long.

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        1 year ago

        Something has definitely changed

        Ya, the cost of living. If you’re offering a wage below the poverty line AND the labour is back breaking, you can’t possibly expect positive results.

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          Eh, it’s not backbreaking… But I see what you’re saying. What do all the 20 y/o non college educated kids do now? I know not all of them are in a trade school.

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            Ya, I get what you’re saying too. I don’t know what they’re doing, I’m not particularly dialed in with that demographic. I do know that logically, if the wage being offered can’t even cover rent then there really isn’t a point to doing it. Probably more efficient to do gig economy work, or something under the table, or crime to be honest.