No, low pay at a retail job is not a new trend, but wages and salaries have not kept up with the cost of living. Back in the day you could set up a basic household on a minimum wage job and work your way up.
In this day and age, forget about it.
You can't get a basic car for a hundred dollars anymore and tinker with it to keep it going, and have insurance for a couple hundred dollars a year. Now you spend $5000 for anything slightly decent, which means a car payment, and you pray to God that it doesn't break down because you're then running up a huge mechanic bill because you can't work on the complicated electronic systems yourself. Insurance is going to run you around $100 a month if you've got a clean driving record.
You can't go to the doctor's only when you get sick anymore and pay cash. Now you MUST have a health care plan which costs hundreds of dollars a month, and then you STILL pay the bill at the doctor's office because of the "deductible." It's *ILLEGAL* go without healthcare.
A cell phone and internet access are almost necessities in this day and age. You need the internet to search for a better job. You need the cell phone so they can contact you about the better job.
You constantly need to be job-shopping looking for that place that'll pay $1/hr more than where you're at now because you're certainly never going to get that much of a raise, and even if you do they will find a reason to get rid of you as soon as you start earning too much!
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