Fans of Best of the Web Today: "I answered this question today:
"How do you expect people to support a family on minimum wage?"
1. I don't. The real minimum wage is zero.
2. Don't take on additional responsibilities until you can take care of yourself. If you are still living in your parent's basement, that's a sign you aren't ready.
3. Don't have a family until you can financially support one. My wife and I didn't even get married until both of us could support ourselves and we didn't have kids until we could afford them.
4.. Supporting a family means financial security and financial security means a steady job. The way to get out of minimum wage jobs is to get an education of vocational training in a discipline or a skill that is in demand.
5. You do not have a "right" to have a spouse, a partner or children. These are choices you make. Society does not have a responsibility to support them for you so you can live a life as comfortable as others who made better decisions.
6. Sure, success always involves some degree of luck - right time, right place, right people - but if you don't prepare yourself to accept those opportunities, that's nobody's fault but yours.
7. Sometimes you have to go where the jobs are - if there is profitable work in North Dakota, don't expect it will come to South Carolina in search of you - you have to go to it.
8. Being stuck in a minimum wage job is completely avoidable for 99.9% of people - for most it is a choice, not an inescapable reality.
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