One of my co-workers said this to me. I was talking with them and stuff like past jobs came up. Things like struggling on our yearly salary came up. One thing led to another and this person then proceeded to tell me, and I quote, “Minimum wage is not meant to be lived on.” Excuse me? This was after they said the people who want $15+ for minimum wage would make everything more expensive.
I asked this co-worker to elaborate and they said stuff like how minimum wage jobs are meant to be stater jobs and we're supposed to improve ourselves and work towards better jobs.
I made my disagreement known. I said how these minimum wage jobs provide society so much and how everyone deserves to have enough money to live on. I even referenced how back in the day, there were people who were able to work on minimum wage and afford things like university tuition or housing, but that's no longer possible.
After that, the discussion ended on their end. Maybe they just didn't want to debate further with me. Maybe I made too much sense. Maybe I broke their world view or they're just that deep in denial. I don't know. All I know is that I was annoyed at how ignorant this person seemed but they spoke to me as if they were being wise (they're older than me, but I feel our maturity and wknowledge of the real world levels are VERY different).
I kind of short circuited and just noted that I can't talk to this person about the real world since they think they know it all or they're choosing to be blind. Either way, I can't deal with this brick wall.
So…that happened.