Living Wage and Minimum Wage

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11. While the ideal might be to have "meaningful" jobs it is NOT the reality

And since the reality is that service jobs, such as those at fast food outlets, are now the only ones available to many people who NEED to earn enough to support themselves, then those jobs should pay a living wage. Dreaming about returning to the old days when this country produced most of our goods and most jobs were created by that production will not create that reality.

Maybe if service jobs were more expensive to corporations, the management will realize that producing real goods rather than simply serving short term profit goals is a better way to make their money. Penalizing the people doing those jobs as a way to achieve that goal just continues to make service jobs more profitable.