who makes just min. wage?

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"You are so mean," you say? No, because anyone that wants to better themselves over the years and years and years they are working at Burger King can do so. They can take the GED, go to college, go to a trade school, etc. Failing to do so, they get zero sympathy from me.

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Many of the long-timers there were marginal people who probably had iq's just slightly above being retarded. I seriously doubt they could have gone to any kind of advanced school, or even obtained their GED's.

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This was my experience also when I worked in a cherry factory.

There is a sizeable portion of the workforce that makes just enough to pay for food and shelter and aren't blessed with the requisite talent or intelligence to progress up the pay scale.

Their work is hard and draining. Their housing is spartan at best, they have hardly any opportunity for recreation, and can't afford health insurance.

A lot of them are really nice people even.

Anyone who would fault a person with an IQ of 75 for failing to self educate is an [censored] in my book.

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Oh, please. I don't doubt that *some* of the people you are talking about have such low IQs that there may be little else that they can do. But I'm not buying that all, or even the majority of those you mention, couldn't find other work that paid more than minimum wage. Many are lazy, unmotivate, lack understanding that other opportunities exist (giving them the benefit of the doubt).

But to conclude that a sizable portion of our work force are people in this condition, and that I am an [censored], is a bunch of crap.

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