When I was 16 my first job was at McDonald's. Now I'm months away from defending my dissertation for my PhD. I've had many jobs in between - research assistant, archival assistant, editor, etc. The hardest work out of them all? That McDonalds job. 1/5
It was exhausting. The job was thankless. Customers were rude and made ridiculous assumptions about WHY people were working there. I have never run my body so ragged in a job. I have never been spoken down to, asked to do thankless work, or yelled at so much in any other job. 2/5
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 doesn't degrade the decade of education I've done. On the contrary, I deserved a wage that could support me back then as I saved for college. I was just as deserving of survival and social mobility then as I am now. 3/5
When we uplift other people, we uplift ourselves. Your pay is not a direct reflection of your labor. It's just not. Saying your wages are degraded by uplifting someone else to livable standards is selfish and unfair and misses the mark. 4/5
If anything be angry that people work 40 hour weeks and can't support themselves. Be angry that they can't afford health care. Be angry that people are forced into poverty. Be angry that wealthy people drive a system that's inherently unfair. 5/5
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