> Not all jobs are supposed to be able to support a family of 4 at a middle-class lifestyle on 40 hours a week.
This is the fundamental problem, it shouldn't be possible for any family of 4 to have difficult basic physical necessities, job or no job. However, in the current state of things some workers are so exploited that the only available work (if you can find any for your labor) pays at a minimum wage.
> What jobs are teenagers supposed to have?
Acquiring disposable income is really different from having to have steady work at a decent rate of pay in order to afford basics like food and shelter. Also, there are tremendous issues with young people and work and exploitation of labor in that age demographic.
> We need to have entry-level jobs for people who are just getting started in the labor market, whose labor isn't worth that much because they are still working on basic job skills, like showing up to work on time sober.
This is a deliberate slander, you are associating people who receive minimum wage (and are likely poor) with alcoholism. That kind of thing is a long running stereotype that undermines the value of low paid laborers or and workers.
Further, nobody is saying that all workers must have high pay, we would expect that pay levels have differences between types of work and types of workers. However, there should be a basic guarantee that people can access basic physical needs.
This is the fundamental problem, it shouldn't be possible for any family of 4 to have difficult basic physical necessities, job or no job. However, in the current state of things some workers are so exploited that the only available work (if you can find any for your labor) pays at a minimum wage.
> What jobs are teenagers supposed to have?
Acquiring disposable income is really different from having to have steady work at a decent rate of pay in order to afford basics like food and shelter. Also, there are tremendous issues with young people and work and exploitation of labor in that age demographic.
> We need to have entry-level jobs for people who are just getting started in the labor market, whose labor isn't worth that much because they are still working on basic job skills, like showing up to work on time sober.
This is a deliberate slander, you are associating people who receive minimum wage (and are likely poor) with alcoholism. That kind of thing is a long running stereotype that undermines the value of low paid laborers or and workers.
Further, nobody is saying that all workers must have high pay, we would expect that pay levels have differences between types of work and types of workers. However, there should be a basic guarantee that people can access basic physical needs.