We can pay someone $20~60 an hour to stand in line for concert tickets and shoe drops but we can't get enough blue-collar workers to bring down housing prices.
NYC McDonald's pays $17~20 an hour...
Somewhere along the way, what we value for labor and what we work we are willing to do got very messed up.
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That's part of what I was thinking about, we have people with little/ low skills that we pay to do things that make no sense.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/gen-x-entrepreneur-line-sitti...
We can pay someone $20~60 an hour to stand in line for concert tickets and shoe drops but we can't get enough blue-collar workers to bring down housing prices.
NYC McDonald's pays $17~20 an hour...
Somewhere along the way, what we value for labor and what we work we are willing to do got very messed up.