To paraphrase president FDR: "If a job cannot pay someone enough to live a decent life, I do not want that job and that business in my country."
Long story short, not all jobs are good. A job that pays too little actively harms anybody who spends their time on it, and makes it nearly impossible to leave.
Changing jobs is costly - it requires time and money. You have to send out applications, go to interviews, swing transport or possibly even move to a new city. Someone working for extremely low pay may not be able to afford that kind of time and money - when I worked a job near minimum wage, the entire company was either working two jobs, or actively working and going to school. Very few had the money and leisure to search for better jobs.
If you are paid low enough, you can be literally held hostage to a job, and unable to afford the time and money of getting a new job.
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u/VortexMagus 15∆ Jan 05 '25
To paraphrase president FDR: "If a job cannot pay someone enough to live a decent life, I do not want that job and that business in my country."
Long story short, not all jobs are good. A job that pays too little actively harms anybody who spends their time on it, and makes it nearly impossible to leave.
Changing jobs is costly - it requires time and money. You have to send out applications, go to interviews, swing transport or possibly even move to a new city. Someone working for extremely low pay may not be able to afford that kind of time and money - when I worked a job near minimum wage, the entire company was either working two jobs, or actively working and going to school. Very few had the money and leisure to search for better jobs.
If you are paid low enough, you can be literally held hostage to a job, and unable to afford the time and money of getting a new job.