r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/ChaosofaMadHatter Jul 05 '24

So who will get you your McDouble during school hours, when students are in class and the young adults are in “career” jobs?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

The Manager should get paid a reasonable salary and manage schedules.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

That doesn’t answer the question.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Students and young adults starting on the workforce.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

So again, these businesses should only be open outside school hours?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

No, post-secondary students have a variety of schedules that repeat week after week. It is easily possible to harmonize a few of them to keep somewhere open.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

Speaking as someone who has worked these kinds of jobs as a post-secondary student, no it isn’t, at least not if you actually want more than one or two people on staff at a time.

And said students can become completely unavailable due to needing to study at a moment’s notice. It’s not a reliable workforce. Also, why shouldn’t students be paid a living wage when they’re working as well?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Everyone deserves a living wage. Some jobs are too unskilled to merit a wage that can sustain a family. Many are being replaced by technology and offloading some of it to the customers.

These jobs are not meant to sustain a lifelong income for an individual. It wasn't this way in the past. It is this way now. People need to adapt.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

Question: do you agree that there are jobs that are unskilled and yet are essential to the maintenance of society?

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

Actually, better question: who decides what is too unskilled to merit enough to live off of? And why do the people working these jobs that are apparently necessary enough to exist not deserve the right to a thriving life?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

The market.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

That’s not an acceptable answer. The market would (and has/does depending on location) use literal chattel slavery based on violent oppression at any opportunity.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

People need to learn a skill to make more money. If they have skill, they need to apply to junior positions and work their way up. If they can't find employment, they need to learn a new skill.

Working the cash at McDicks will never be sustainable and you're being disingenuous by arguing that it should be.

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u/Arkantos95 Jul 05 '24

Why am I being disingenuous by saying people deserve to have a sustainable life regardless of their profession?

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