meet Terrence Wise, a 36 year old, 2nd-generation fast-food worker

There is a bigger issue here, a huge underlying issue.

Most of you are focused on the pitfalls of this man, and now he is being torn apart.

Fact is if you are making sub $250k, you should be fighting alongside this man.

Wages and Salaries in this country are way too low, and a lot of this countries wealth is being held by the 1%. CEO's make a ridiculous amount of money.

Captialism is broken, well, unless you are capitalizing on it.

Yes, this man has made some poor decisions, even then the reality is that people in America are making $8/hour in this country. Whether they began working in that industry two decades ago or two minutes ago. That is a terrible wage.
 
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:smh: And sad thing is, stories like this isn't all that uncommon. Add the race and gender factor into it and she never really had a chance. U have some that do come out like Oprah, but she's the exception and not the rule.
 
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I'm curious how much did he net after taxes in those 56 years? Seems like he wasn't able to save much, if any.
 
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Terrence Wise is a 36-year-old, 2nd-generation fast-food worker. He's been in the industry for nearly two decades and works two jobs. He makes only $8 per hour. His fiancé is a home health care worker. She's been in the industry for 12 years. She makes just $10 per hour.
Watch Terrence tell his story about why he's fighting for a better, fairer workplace.

go.wh.gov/WorkerVoice #StartTheConvo


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Fact is if you are making sub $250k, you should be fighting alongside this man.
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The american dream/pull yourself by your bootstraps mentality has people's minds warped. Classicism has people who work at Lowes or who bar-tend part time talking down to people who work at Mcdonalds seeking to get paid more.




On May 1, 1974, the federal minimum wage rose from $1.60 to $2.00 an hour. In today’s dollars, this would equate to an increase from $7.67 to $9.60. Yet today, the federal minimum wage is just $7.25. After 14 wage increases over the past 40 years, minimum wage workers have less buying power now than they did in 1974. According to Out of Reach 2014, a minimum wage worker today has to work, on average, 104 hours a week to afford a modest two-bedroom rental unit.
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Hopefully the robot remembers no pickles 
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Dang, that's going to unemploy a lot of people, but overall
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Eventually almost every job but engineering the robots themselves will be done by robots who are more efficient than humans. The no-skill jobs will be the first to go. Those people will have to adapt and by necessity most probably will. Not like they were born only being able to flip burgers. There's always going to be push back but we can't stop progression because some people want to hold everyone else back.
 
As an engineer I love seeing automation make its way into different industries.

But I don't think automation of no/low skill jobs is going to force people to adapt though. The reason people have no/low skills isn't due to the presence of those jobs. Not in my opinion atleast.
 
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Honestly, I see just about all fast food restaurants ending up like Sheetz, and I wouldn't mind it. Less people up front, equates to more people in the back preparing food if the orders come in fast enough.
 
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As an engineer I love seeing automation make its way into different industries.

But I don't think automation of no/low skill jobs is going to force people to adapt though. The reason people have no/low skills isn't due to the presence of those jobs. Not in my opinion atleast.
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Either way, we can't be having human beings doing these jobs for 40 hours a week if there's no reason to from cost, efficiency, health, whatever. Just a waste of their time and lives to prop up a job for the sole purpose of paying them.

Standard of living should go up too I imagine. The floor here is a lot higher than in less developed countries. So even if the bottom portion of society doesn't adapt, if we keep moving up the floor, they'll progress that way too. I guess.
 
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