[QUOTE=Racerbvd;11424730]Yep, people use to be embarrassed to have food stamps and government assistance, now it is a goal. It is very clear that people's standards have tremendously dropped.
Now people are being brainwashed that they "
deserve " X amount of money no matter what the job. Minimum wage was never meant to be anything but a starting point, from there you work your way up. I remember as a kid, Mr Fetzer, who owned Lake Shore Schwinn (family still owns it, but no longer Schwinn) when I started working, I earned $3.35 an hour. Now I was only at that rate a short time as I was motivated. I remember asking Mr Fetzer what it would take to earn more money, his answer was very simple
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make yourself worth more money[/QUOTE]
So I went from fixing flats, to repairing to building new bikes, when the new product lines would come out, I would educate myself so I could work on the sales floor, ect. I learned a lot from him, and not just about bikes, but business and ethics and more.
His words are just as true today as they were in the early 80s.
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Part of the problem is right in this story. $3.35 in the early 80's works out to over 11 bucks an hour now, just tracking inflation. Yet that job today is probably well below that.