• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Jesus titty fucking Christ dude. People should be able to afford to shelter and feed themselves on any one job. I don’t care if you’re a fry cook or a neurosurgeon, everyone deserves to live with dignity and in reasonable comfort. No one cares how it was 15 years ago when you were entering the workforce. We care how it is now, where unless you won the parent lottery, you’re probably gonna need two jobs out of college if you want to actually support yourself.

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      4 months ago

      Also, 15 years ago entry level work was 7-10 dollars an hour. Dude walked into a “skilled” job and confused it for “entry level”. Which is also a bullshit euphemism meant to keep us from realizing that many people will never leave that level of work. It’s literally impossible for everyone to move up because there’s fewer jobs in each level going up.

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        3 months ago

        Entry level based on the OP comment that they are a college graduate. I didn’t realize that I had to specify something that was spelled out in the OP.

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      4 months ago

      At the risk of defending the guy with the bad take, op can afford shelter and food. Op can’t afford shelter and food and 1000 dollars of loan payments per month.

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        4 months ago

        The 1000 dollars of loan payments per month shouldn’t be a thing, is part of my point. It wasn’t a thing 15 years ago when the person with the bad take got their “entry level job”, and it shouldn’t be a thing now. People should be able to get a college education without having to put themselves into financial ruin.

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          3 months ago

          This comment shows how uneducated on the topic you took the time to comment on you are. Average cost of college in 2010 was $33k and $38k now. source