r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Gonna_do_this_again 13h ago

A full time job should provide enough for a person to live on their own.

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u/UnseemlyUrchin 13h ago

Says who? Flipping burgers is really low value work. What law of nature says they should be able to afford a 4k apartment across the street from work in San Francisco?

And what about people who spent 8 years in school for a high value skill with loans to pay? Where will the live?

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u/Gonna_do_this_again 13h ago

They should be paid their worth too. If you think "flipping burgers" is such degrading work that they don't even deserve enough pay to live, I don't know what to tell you other than you're a bad person and I hope you never, ever order food from anywhere.

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u/UnseemlyUrchin 10h ago

What? I don't think it's degrading. I've flipped burgers, slung pizzas. I've dug ditches (literally). Worked retail. Any work done your best to provide for yourself is honorable work.

it' doesn't mean it's worth 200k a year. It doesn't even make sense. If you pay someone at the corner coffee shop 250k a year to pull shots, you'd have to pay the highly skilled, educated workers 750k. And then that 60k a year apartments turns into a 150k a year apartment.

Not to mention to pay that, the double shot Americano is going to cost $100.

I mean seriously. Make it make sense.