Has it dawned on anyone that the people with the money, who send their kids to the big money schools, have the high paying jobs already "earmarked" for their Pampered Children..... they network with other corporate people, and since they often want to get around Nepotism, they hire each other's and their friends kids....
It's a big part of why we have such Horrible Corporate Decisions... many of the people in the top seats, never really worked for anything, some never even cleaned their own rooms, and many left home where someone did the laundry, they went to school with a credit card or a few, or a trust fund and they spent their summer working in their parents friends and associate firms in an office setting, doing not much of anything, other than showing up... and run a few errands.
Its as true in a big city as it is in small towns... Every town has their elite families.... Of the 10's of thousands of kids coming from well to do and wealthy families, go into the high paying jobs... families who have town or city recognition has an assurance by their associations and relations that their kids do not have to work an average pay job... so the actual available slots for "high pay"... is not open to the general public. One would have to have outstanding credentials and skills, and still they will end up working "under" one of these "silk carpet riders"....
If one look at the Median Income Range, of any city... Many people from non marquee universities and colleges may earn close to Median Income and a great many end up using their degree like a "get a job certificate'... if one looks at the job posting, which calls for a degree, or comparable experience, when fact it, they go after the degree long before they consider those with experience....
We've all seen people with degree, who don't have the work motivation or the work ethic's of people who actually perform higher labor intensive jobs. We've seen people put in position that make horrible decisions.
After 4 yrs of learning how to be submissive to the professor for a grade, many come into the work force looking for people with name recognition and go into submission and name dropping, as their way of moving about. As long as they pander to the name... they get the less intensive work duties.
If University Graduates was a sign of high progressive ethnics, we'd have more innovation, people would have learned the people skills and they'd be aware that it is the people who do the intensive labor that actually makes the job function.
Many people in the title roles have poor budget management skills, they focus more on how to strip something to come in under budget with hopes to get a bonus for "diminishing the quality standards and over burdening the workforce".
We will "never" return to the products of the 1940's and 1950's that had a durable standard of quality, and even were repairable for longevity.
How many things can anyone name that has lived up to "Advertising Hype".... even "services" fall far short of what's advertised and after the advertising teaser, comes the reduction in services, followed by the fee based on getting what was previously advertised.
How often do people get something from a bank... changing the terms of a checking account"... of some type of services, sending out a notice of what they will "no longer provide".. This is the game taught to the Degree Riders who chases a bonus and name recognition and will craft any kind of policy that is designed to fleece the consumer, so they can get a raise and/or bonus and a pat on the back with a new title.
Every since "degrees' became more important than the skilled laborer... Everything in America has declined.
In the 1940's and even in the 1960's people with BA and BS degree, actually specialized in something they were dedicated to, and had concern about the field they chose and had more concern about improving the field's work production or innovation for better functions.... Many today, switch majors a number of times, looking for low impact high credit classes, only to get to the magical number of credits that provide the Degree Certificate.
Even in the Medical Field, all Doctors are not good doctors... and if one ever look at the "billing rate"... its purely insane because "ethics is gone"... its about "patient turn overs for revenue"... you get three minutes and a prescription and if you go to an Emergency Room, for non surgical needs, look at the bill, and then look at what was not done and what little that was done... which is mostly done by the on staff nurses and nurse assistants, yet, the doctor will submit a $300+ bill... when they may have spent 35 seconds in your presence.
Being Poor is not the choice some think it is... its the system of society, that has much already marked for the wealthy.
Look back at the era of Slavery... what did the slave owners send their kids to school to be, and what fields did those kids dominate.
They dominated
"Medicine" because its as close to guaranteed money, as was slavery at producing guaranteed money for the slave owners.
"Law'... the same things,
"Insurance", the same things,
"Banking and Finance", the same things...
"Advertising and Marketing", the same things....
"Merchandising", the same things... Never into anything where "price fixing was not a standard mode of operating".
There was never a need for the escalation of "inflation" in the ways and rates that it happens.. its only because when people think they need something, and these people feel they are hooked on the need, or in serious need of something, then the Price goes up, and the quality goes down and if its products the quantity decrease.
No adult over 21 should be paid as low as Minimum Wage... and if its a single parent under 21, they too should not be paid as low as minimum wage.
HUD has rental rate standards that's published as to what is the rental rates for every part of the country. Transportation is not free, and utilities are not free and food and personal care items are not free.
and the collective of these things cannot be met with Minimum Wage Rates.
That current level... should only be applied to "After School Work for Teenagers who live at home and do not have kids and do not have the responsibility to contribute to the family's stability".
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I think we made mistakes which led to millon+ dollar shacks. I don't want to end up with US being Ameri-Brazil even if I would profit from it. That is just soulless.
