Rant: Can we agree that it’s BS that employers pay employees less cus they are ‘young and don’t need the money’?

I can’t count how many times I’ve seen a post for job advertisement where it says something like 15-17 year old starts at $10 an hour, and then 18 and up starts at $12.

I can hear it now. People saying well they young employees don’t have bills to pay they don’t need the ‘Extra’ money.

Ok so by that logic everyone with a paid off house gets paid less because they don’t need the money do they? It makes me so pissed because you know if we flipped it around and said ‘Hey boomer your expenses are less then a millennial so we will pay you less.’ Everyone would be pissed. But do it to a kid? That’s ok.

I’m sorry I thought pay was based off skill and not that persons need for money. Employers keep trying to tell us that’s why they don’t pay more. I call BS.

Rant over.